It's funny, it's smart, it's tragic, some of the language presages Faulkner, but also presages Nathanael West.
"Lessons from the past have served to highlight the tragic consequences of poor language skills".
In a telephone interview from London, he called his speech "tragic timing," and said he regretted having used language "that can be misinterpreted".
"Our preemptive nuclear attacks will bring the provocateurs nothing but tragic consequences," an English-language commentary in Rodong Sinmun, the official paper of the Central Committee of the Workers Partyy of Korea, warned.
The force of destiny is felt throughout, and Schendel's muted, sober use of language intensifies the tragic note.
It's time to drop the language of the "tragic," and take specific, concrete steps toward fixing a broken, and racially-skewed, system.
He is gripped by the actor's obsession with transformation, translating body language into verbal language, tragic contradictions into comic paradox and visual images from the world around him into the muscular truth of slapstick.
Death and the King's Horseman, about a man called on by tradition to take his own life, combines dance, language and music to tragic effect.
Yet what's tragic about Russia's rhetoric regarding language preservation is that it doesn't extend to the others in danger of extinction on its territory.
"Montecore" understands the tragic divides inherent in role-playing, in language, in the relationship between tiger and so-called tamer.
