I also found some of the social commentary, as voiced by various characters, a bit self-important and lengthy, if depressingly apt.
She is cast into the same pejorative stereotype so many Victorian women are: not very beautiful, especially once the teeth went; alternatively a virgin, asexual or a lesbian – De Quincey hinted all three at various points; a bit of an oddball labelled as both being a "creature apart" above love and sex, and of being in love with her own brother.
Last year, the Obamas replaced the house's chief usher, who is in charge of running the residence, bringing in Angella Reid, a veteran of the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain — not to make the house more luxurious, a former aide was careful to note, but simply to bring its various functions a bit more up to date.
Any artistic work uploaded and showcased on the service can be tagged so that credit is given to its various contributors, a bit like the way you can tag people in photos on Facebook.
'I like it [feedback] coming together, but I thought what I got, in terms of what I read from the various blocks, a bit disappointing.
I think it is very superficial and scratchy.' [Coach 1] 'I like it [feedback] coming together, but I thought what I got, in terms of what I read from the various blocks, a bit disappointing.
Since then, despite all their internal fights, they have performed together on stage at various points; wiser, a bit sadder perhaps, but no less inspiring or militant.
As I guided our visitors to each side of the deck, I stopped to point out various landmarks and a bit of history with each one.
Terayama's plays and movies owed something to various Western influences — a bit of Fellini here, Robert Wilson there — but far more to Japanese fairground entertainments, carnival freaks, striptease shows, and other forms of theatrical lowlife.
The band's music is built around simple motifs, but the arrangements are symphonic, even if the portable orchestra of strings, horns, accordions, hurdy-gurdies, and various keyboards sounds a bit ramshackle, like a local repertory production of "The Threepenny Opera" that has gone on the road.
