Addicted to its atmosphere and hung up on its plot, I've gulped it exhaustedly until 3am, only to sleep and dream that I was still caught among its urgent, unnerving characters.
As the repository of various characters' urgent confidences, Mr. Stram is aptly sweet and blank.
The first three sections depict different kinds of impossible but urgent love, their characters showing both emotional abandon and personal need.
Each horse (actors take turns) has a hilariously different character, from urgent chider to languid coquette.
From the start, with a muscular lament over the Swiss people's lack of freedom ("How burdensome is life! / We no longer have a fatherland!"), Finley established character through urgent shaping of phrases and minute variations of timbre.
A line of Arabic suggests an urgent progress of the characters from right to left.
After two months at wildlife rehabilitation center on Long Island the bird was released in Central Park on Wednesday afternoon, taking flight like a "Harry Potter" character with an urgent message to deliver.
From Nelson Algren to Saul Bellow, Chicago has produced a succession of writers who found their muse in the city's boisterous neighborhoods, its rich cast of characters, its nervy, urgent energy.
Polite and respectful almost to a fault, Hersey carefully picks his way around the impossible but urgent questions: How did his characters experience, morally, the chain of events that culminated in their being bombed, given their own country's profound aggression?
We wanted to set the story in an early medieval Scotland but we also wanted it to feel urgent and real, populated by characters we could connect with and understand.
