Miller
tearily responds to Sister Aloysius' evidence-free claims, her fragility near a breaking point.
"And what about the searchlights?" his father trumpeted
tearily. "Go figure they need two--two batteries."
Once she realizes that Frank no long er intends to continue their affair, her voice fills with "quivering passion of hatred and wrong"; she
tearily, angrily calls her lover a "great, hulking coward," accusing him of marrying a "safe thing" for a "big block" of "stock" (114).
Instead, he
tearily applauds the students' courage for rejecting affirmative action as "racist." His explanation of why he refused to teach "black history" is equally unconvincing, leaving the impression that the only argument for doing so is a student desire to waste class time, not the intellectual validity of considering the African-American experience apart from more general "American history." In these places, the book reads like the kind of stuff churned out by those "social realist" authors and filmmakers in the old Soviet Union, where what mattered was the ideological overlay, not the quality of the story.
."), yet in the peculiar Paved Paradise parallax, he finds himself
tearily muttering, "How true!" Through a sentimental pot-informed haze, he might have done something similar when he was fifteen, back when Mitchell was reverently referred to in record reviews as "the poetess," and when her songs seemed the embodiment of glamour and knowledge; but this would ordinarily be a repressed memory.
Lastly, Geordie princess Danielle also showed a glimmer of goodness from beneath her usual two default settings of screamingly truculent and being
tearily covered in more mascara than Alice Cooper on the log flume at Alton Towers.
He acted an entirely convincing Nick, Alex's boyfriend, and
tearily acknowledged the standing ovation in his honour.
There are too many
tearily triumphant moments, and the de rigeur climactic match could be more rousing.
The poor turnout was made worse by his parents having booked a huge upstairs room in the local rugby club - you only get the true sense of a dance floor's size when there's only two small children doing the moves to The Chicken Song on it - and the fact that his dad
tearily thanked each one of us individually for bothering to turn up.
"I'm here with my spade," she says
tearily, struggling to find an image by which to feed a failing, uncomprehending parent.
That not quite broken, pre-pubescent voice of his makes everything he says sound like scared, teary pleading - which, when he actually is scared and
tearily pleading, is just awful from a business standpoint.
Women won't be alone in pondering the depiction of Eleanor/Nell in the second act, complete with a would-be suicide -- "I love my children; tell them I love them," says Nell, sounding
tearily like Dickens' Little Nell -- that contains a sustainedly elegant play's only wince-inducing lapse.
This was summed up when the dreary family
tearily hugged, kissed and cried over their ser-vants as they prepared to leave the house.
The indices at the outset aren't necessarily auspicious, with Law's baleful Giovanni -- lovesick brother to the object of his incestuous desire, Annabella (a radiant Eve Best) -- collapsing
tearily to the floor of Richard Hudson's planked, mostly unadorned stage.
