Singing the role of Judith, Bluebeard's doomed bride, the mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung underscored the hope and dread in her words with her facial expressions and physical gestures.
The selection of North Carolina also underscored the hope of Mr. Obama and his advisers that they have a better chance of organizing supporters — and finding new voters — in a conservative-leaning but demographically evolving Southern state than in a traditional battleground like Missouri.
The starkly different elections underscore the hopes and deep frustrations among those who support political change in one-party China.
The successes and failures of China's provincial elections underscore the hopes and frustrations among those who support political change in the one-party nation.
With the real-life manufacturer of Boeing's Japan-made batteries under intense scrutiny, the three-part series, which was carried by the public broadcaster NHK and showed its finale on Saturday, came at an angst-ridden time, and underscored the hopes that Japan had pinned on technologies like lithium-ion batteries.
Underscoring that hope was the fact that, even as a Eurasian Economic Union member, Armenia struck economic and trade deals with the EU.
Since, in many cases, the best estimates provide only a range of choices, those at the microphone and keyboard tend to pick the number that best underscores the point they hope to make.
These incidents underscore how vain is the hope that Castro will mellow and ease his tyranny.
Even as Ms. Orringer fills her book and her protagonist with hope, she underscores the imminence of danger with what, in view of her often exquisitely precise use of language, seems like a heavy hand.
It also underscores the notion that the best hope so far for such programming may lie in the children's market because children are a more diverse group than the adult population.
