agape

“I could sense the agape right off the page,” said Herr, using the Greek term for the selfless love preached by Jesus, to explain why he wanted in.

The arrest Saturday left passengers agape.

One woman, then a White House intern, had lunch with Halperin, and as media journalist Paul Farhi reported in the Washington Post, “as they stood outside the restaurant afterward, Halperin suddenly threw her up against the plate-glass facade and pinned her arms against it. Then he lunged at her, mouth agape, ‘like someone who was going to eat you.’

Nghia spends the film with his mouth agape and his eyes wet and bleary behind thick prescription glasses.

The way the script is written is meant to invite the viewer into the story through an experience of seeing, understanding and feeling, penetrating the consciousness of each character, using an expansive visual and sonic language, and strong narrative beats to synergize the other pillar element — Agape, or as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described it, divine love operating in the human heart.