Of course, Lear is not a sermon in favour of altruism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool] Reference

Lear is followed by The School for Husbands, starting in August.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heading to New York in the coming Week?] Reference

Lear is a play in which this tendency is particularly well marked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool] Reference

One of the timeless themes of King Lear is the difficulty of speaking to power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Fox trashes Olbermann.] Reference

At the start of the play Lear is firmly established as king of a united Britain.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 August 20 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference

Having made up my mind to wait for Lucy to get ahold of me, I call Lear instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood Savage] Reference

To begin with, his examination of King Lear is not ‘impartial’, as he twice claims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool] Reference

Lear is one of the minority of Shakespeare’s plays that are unmistakably about something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool] Reference

Its mode of communication, unlike Aribert Reimann's abrasive 1978 Lear, is strangely quiet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela; Benjamin Grosvenor, LSO; Promised End; Radamisto] Reference

King Lear is a little more challenging, I think, with a main character who isn't very likable to begin with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thin Wallets, Fat Bookshelves: Candlewick Press’ fall/winter catalog | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference

"King Lear" is one of those starring roles that actors are supposed to dread -- at least according to my Shakespeare professor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Pacino Takes the Throne as ‘King Lear’ » MTV Movies Blog] Reference

The subject of Lear is renunciation, and it is only by being wilfully blind that one can fail to understand what Shakespeare is saying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool] Reference

The passage in Lear — "Do you not hear the sea?" — has haunted me intensely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound] Reference

I'm impressed that you've seen Godard's "Lear" - I've been under the impression that one is not easy to find.    From Wordnik.com.  [The best films of the 1980s] Reference

You see, King Lear is one of the few Shakespeare plays I haven’t read.    From Wordnik.com.  [Decoding Shakespeare « Write Anything] Reference

One can see why a Lear is a wee bit easier to arrange than a Gulfstream.    From Wordnik.com.  ["That has nothing to do with family and friends and everything to do with security... It's a question of distance."] Reference

"I also like the new Lear, which is really rejuvenated with a good balance sheet," Cramer told me in an e-mail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freep.com - RSS] Reference

It is not an airliner, but it is a smaller plane described as a Lear jet and we are told there are a couple of fatalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2010] Reference

Well, not so many in Lear, but Hamlet kills.    From Wordnik.com.  [All the mad men and all the mad women can't tell a joke to save their lives] Reference

Lear is absent from a theatre from 3. 6till 4.6.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

Mr. Swanson's "Lear" transferred to an Off Broadway theater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introducing… The Amazing Prospero!] Reference

For our time, this memorable "Lear" will be counted as one of the greats.    From Wordnik.com.  [$2,295 a ticket? Now, That’s High Tragedy] Reference

Of course, the reason you can't bribe your way into "Lear" is all Hollywood.    From Wordnik.com.  [$2,295 a ticket? Now, That’s High Tragedy] Reference

No kingly diadem can boast such jewels as glow along these lines from "Lear".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference

Those that do, such as Lear or BorgWarner, are either diversified or look richly valued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Any Auto Stock, as Long as It's Ford] Reference

Part of the RSC's worldwide tour, "Lear" was completely sold out months before it arrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [$2,295 a ticket? Now, That’s High Tragedy] Reference

What is most surprising about Mr. Noble's "Lear" is his unexpected avoidance of the grand manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Kings Make a Winning Hand] Reference

Here as in "Lear," the plot turns on a raging storm; here as in "Lear," the storms raging within are the most brutal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports From The Heartland] Reference

If somebody hadn't written a book on the comic structure of "Lear" in 1980, I would have written my dissertation on it too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Measure For Measure] Reference

Except on day one when he said I realised this summer that this year would mark the 26th year in a row that I've taught 'Lear'.    From Wordnik.com.  [lear] Reference

We never could observe in actual experience passion such as Lear's, or meditation such as Hamlet's, fusing everything else into itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference

Would it help us to know what the Stratford boys thought of him and felt toward him who was to write "Lear" and "Hamlet," or how the men of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference

Such is the moral that exhales from plays like 'Lear'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy] Reference

The only returning director is Lynne Collins ( "Lear").    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

At a time not far distant "Lear" was my favourite among.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fibble, D.D.] Reference

At no point in 'Lear' is there any loosening of the tragic tension.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference

Real nonsense such as Lear concocted, real wit such as that which sparkles from Lewis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Books and Their Illustrators] Reference