Authors from Charles Dickens and Mark Twain to Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Elliot, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forester each promoted their own work in their own inimitable way by writing about it. (alanrinzler.com)
The film is as strange, in its way, as its lead character's inimitable way with words: Structurally it resembles a straightforward biopic, following Dickinson — played by Emma Bell in the early scenes and a marvelous, moving Cynthia Nixon for the rest — from her brief tenure as a defiant Mount Holyoke student («a no - hoper» says her scold of a headmistress) through her sequestered life, and eventual kidney - related death, at the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts. (slantmagazine.com)
He revealed to us in the clown's inimitable way certain truths about ourselves; he poked fun at our pride and pretension and reconciled us to one another and to a common humanity. (religion-online.org)