Story movingly told, skillfully interweaving incident and idea. The "New York Times" wrote that Woods "humorously yet movingly contemplates existence" in "Killing Time". The music of the opera is precise, direct and movingly understated. The traditional life which Rolt had so movingly described was faced with extinction. Vesna spoke movingly of her mother's "unceasing, limitless love" ("eine Liebe ohne Ende"). As he drops Annie off, Troy movingly gives her a self-assuring talk.