The look, a vaguely period one, is American pastoral.
In his review for The New York Times, Ben Brantley praised Mr. McClure's "heartbreaking grace" while blasting the show's clumsy, flashback-heavy narrative structure, "vaporous music" and "vaguely period dances that go on forever without going anywhere".
Oliver Platt's production uses a vaguely period setting inhabited by characters who evidently enjoy a modern sense of irony, despite their corsets, top hats, riding jackets and powdered wigs (a motley wardrobe designed by Neil Irish).
Yet a stolidly conventional heart beats beneath these airy trappings: a by-the-book rags-to-riches-to-loneliness saga, underscored by vaporous music (which includes, I swear, celestial choruses of "aahs") and vaguely period dances that go on forever without going anywhere.
She looked just terrific with a vaguely period '70s scarf that wasn't too retro so she looked like she was playing dress-up.
Though the larger social and historical background is fairly vague, the period is superficially well-evoked.
The Fed's pledge this week to keep interest rates near zero not just for a vague "extended period" but for a full two years rendered two-year Treasuries virtually risk-free and depressed their yields to a record low of 0.19 percent.
"Legends" principally covers the years Hamilton has resided at the Chelsea, a vaguely forlorn period of which a concert pianist living there observes, "It looks like we're on the tail end of the comet here".
After spending the first half in vaguely eastern, period gear - cast-offs, by the look of it, from Spamalot - the entire troupe returns for the second in modern dress, with Tamerlane in hoodie, jeans and sneakers as opposed to Andronicus's designer suit and MCC tie.
This paper presents a framework for reasoning about qualitative and metric temporal relations between vague time periods.
