The actor's frantic mugging, guffawing and eyebrow twitching only underscore the character's pompous self-satisfaction.
And while his droopy shoulders and nigh-hairless head, combined with the faintly ludicrous garb, underscore the character's befuddlement at the burden he bears, you do miss the awful pathos that should arrive with Hamlet's death.
The News Night duo's utter indifference toward their friend's profession and pending commission on the sale -- save for Jim's incredulity at hearing one Alexander McQueen dress's five-figure price tag ("That's three times what I paid for my car!" he balks )-- underscores the characters' larger presumption that fashion is pretty much a nonissue for serious journalists like themselves.
Under the direction of Giovanna Sardelli, Mr. Turner's rather facile performance does not help matters, underscoring the character's buffoonishness in the early going so effectively that the late-coming revelation of a veiled sensitivity does not ring particularly true.
But Mr. Yorkey added new lyrics to Gabe's big Act I number, "I'm Alive," that underscored the character's darker side, which the creative team believed would sharpen important aspects of his complex relationship with his mother.
PG considers it important to underscore the unique character of such infrastructures and to propose a policy that distinguishes between the contexts of population research and disease (clinical) research involving patients and then delineates actual and future obligations.
The singsongy score is a mostly forgettable potpourri of folk, reggae, country and gospel poorly lip-synced by cast members whose uneven vocal chops underscore the ingenuousness of characters like the virginal Willie.
Set aside this exhibition's awkward attempts to underscore the specifically Jewish character of Modigliani's work (for example, curators point to his formal fascination with noses); for anyone chiefly familiar with the masklike faces and stylized bodies of Modigliani's later paintings, this trove of early drawings will be a revelation.
In opposition to Held, Habermas, and other defenders of global democracy, communitarian-minded skeptics underscore the purportedly utopian character of such proposals, arguing that democratic politics presupposes deep feelings of trust, commitment, and belonging that remain uncommon at the transnational level.
Clothes don't make the Navy nurse, but they underscore the difference in the character's portrayal.
