But then so is that of China, with which we seek good relations.
And it's not just time and death from which we seek relief, but also truth.
As in Hudes' other mostly naturalistic plays, it is about the ways in which we seek connection with the people around us, sometimes finding it, sometimes failing it.
"The ideals the big society stood for … could still be the foundation for the new approach to politics, economics and community which we seek," they write.
There is something particularly heartbreaking about the death happening in a place in which we seek solace and we seek peace, in a place of worship.
Women in the church, women bishops, are an inevitable process in which we seek transparency, and then seem to avoid it.
"America has had an extraordinary struggle with racism, underscored so poignantly by the degree to which we seek to stand as a symbol of democracy and human rights.
But the most important thing to acknowledge is that what we do culturally is one way in which we seek happiness.
Basically, we fight against two features which are the hallmarks of African life in South Africa and which are entrenched by legislation which we seek to have repealed.
This is the self-preserving, or selfish, version of everlasting life, in which we seek to be absolutely sure that immortality preserves a sense of ourselves, operating from a particular point of view.
But it also has a spiritual dimension: careers mean more to us because the traditional sources of meaning, like religion, mean less; increasingly, work is the field upon which we seek to prove our value.
