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Her fluidly staged treatment is both a saucy riff on and an endearing homage to Noel Coward's tale, first dramatized as the play "Still Life," about the affair between a pair of suburbanites, an earnest doctor and a hesitant homemaker, affectingly portrayed here by Tristan Sturrock and Hannah Yelland.

Broadway's fine British imports: 'Brief Encounter,' 'Pitmen Painters' Peter Marks 2010

Theirs is a story of love denied, of broken hearts nobly concealed, all of it carried off affectingly.

The Great War Comes Home Dorothy Rabinowitz 2012

The sweet giddiness of the 19th-century family party and the gripping emotions of the battle of mice and toy soldiers, with little Marie (Fiona Brenna) and the little Nutcracker prince (Colby Clark) at their center, were convincingly rendered and affectingly projected.

Matchsticks No More Robert Greskovic 2011

Poetry is the medium that seems to interpret death for the living most affectingly.

Meditations on Mortality Cynthia Crossen 2010

He comes on as a religious fanatic, but what we learn about him illuminates, ever so affectingly, the fundamental separation in today's Iran between the secular bourgeois class and the religious working class.

'A Separation' Comes Together Exceptionally Joe Morgenstern 2011

He has written poetry and novels, he paints, and, for five decades now, has made some of the most affectingly miserable melancholic is a kinder word songs in the canon.

Adam Cohen: 'I've found my own voice' 2011

This warmly nostalgic Timeshift documentary does just this, however, skilfully and affectingly evoking coach trips on the motorways of the 1950s, as railways declined and before air travel became widely accessible.

Tonight's TV highlights: NCIS | Britain's Fattest Man | Barbara Windsor: A Comedy Roast | Carpool | The Golden Age Of Coach Travel | Breaking Bad 2011

Equally affectingly, as a composer he's scarcely been busier: he's written a new anthem for Liverpool Cathedral (words by Rowan Williams); he and the poet Craig Raine are working on an operatic version of Ian McEwan's Atonement; and his two-act opera with McEwan, For You (2008), a thriller driven by sexual and artistic obsession, will have its European premiere in Rome next month.

Michael Berkeley: For You; Music Theatre Wales/Rafferty Fiona Maddocks 2010

The wistful quality that many of these stories seem to be after comes through most affectingly in these two stories because they're understated, don't try as hard as does even the staged epiphany in "Pigeon Feathers."

Updike, John 2010

Another story about a boy, it hews as close to the bone of truth as any novel I've ever read, both visceral and affectingly raw.

Twelve Months of Reading 2011