Mr. Rogers captures Chad's callow emotional immaturity, but his performance lacks the intensity and sense of yearning need that could make us understand why both Cynthia and Jean respond to him.
Everyone is spot-on, but two get a real chance to shine: Leah Brotherhead is moving and desperately funny as the needy Lea, whose verbal squits disguise a yearning need to be loved, and James Alexandrou is creepily hilarious as the almost electively mute schoolboy superman who obsessively stuffs his face with junk food as if trying to fill a black hole deep inside of himself.
This new musical's opening number, "Populism, Yea, Yea," is a catchy rock tune laying the groundwork for the journey ahead, full of schizophrenic choreography and Jackson's (Benjamin Walker) yearning need for change.
"We're seeing a cultural yearning or need to solve this issue about how most of our attention is being soaked up by screens.
DRATT--Rose My heart feels the despair and emptiness increasing as the years go by, the yearning and need for you is overwhelming.
By no measure what she at first seems, Cleo is at one with a play that traffics in aphorisms and pronouncements — Ben, we're told in a rather weighty comparison, is "as mixed up as the 20th century" — but also anatomizes individual yearning and need with genuine skill.
For example, students often ascribe agency to trait shifts in populations, as if a yearning or need of an organism will cause a trait to change, even within that organism′s lifetime.
The kinds of things I used to say more importantly, feel have been veeeery slowly replaced by a new or probably just uncovered yearning, desire, need, whatever, to be open and vulnerable, which is what I think "beauty" is.
Jackson did a masterful job live on her many fine oldies, including "Funnel of Love," a song compellingly covered by Social Distortion's Mike Ness in a raw tour de force of male yearning, male need.
From now until its release on Valentine's Day, it's likely that Fifty Shades of Grey will impose itself on us like a throbbing sausage pressed up against a yearning penny farthing (Needs work – Innuendo ed).
