"Homecoming," an unusual union of dance and topicality, depicts scenarios in which people who have seen their loved ones go off to battle and have either embraced them on their return or mourned their loss.
It is easy to point to lines that have a fortuitous topicality: knowing chuckles now greet George's admission that "There's a sense in which I even quite like a war", and later suggestion that, if Labour can't beat the Tories, the best solution is to join them.
(The play's title is a reference to a term from combat medicine, meaning the window of time after a catastrophe in which a doctor can be of use.) For all its obvious topicality, much of "The Vertical Hour" feels like a musty throwback to the psychological puzzle plays of the 1950s, which translated the dynamic of the analyst's couch into theatrical confrontation and revelation.
The picture might have been viewed as a period film, but coming in the wake of two recent high profile cases in which African-American men died in interactions with white police officers the movie has gained great topicality.
On the other hand, numbers in which the characters complain about the unsatisfying futures that await them ("Are you a man or just the plan your parents made?") have a pasted-on, perfunctory topicality.
The study of the dynamic behavior of the roadway bridges solicited by the mobile vehicles' passage is a topicality subject, which interests many researchers in different fields.
It is thus your "way of having chosen topicality" which has divided us, not mine, which doesn't exist.
ERPs were measured at distinct sentential positions and revealed that sentence-initially information processing is guided by topicality, which affects N400 and Late Positivity effects alike.
Topicality, which can be regional (such as objection to government funding of the film) or critical (such as philosophical objections to the themes), enables attention and a contextual response.
The show tries for a sheen of topicality in the generational fault line between the younger couples.
