Slavery was the accepted practice, though there is little evidence of its grosser features. (religion-online.org)
We can hope to understand the gross features, but the better we observe them, the more it seems there is an endless series of finer and finer problems. (discovermagazine.com)
Following the overwhelming success of No Country — which supplied them with both a Best Picture statuette and their largest box office to date — the Coens had opted for the pitch - black humor of Burn After Reading and the insular artiness of A Serious Man (their second - lowest - grossing feature, after The Hudsucker Proxy). (theatlantic.com)