Sentences with phrase «dense character study»

Even if the end product doesn't quite come together, though, you have to admire Cianfrance for attempting to weave together such an intricate and dense character study.

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It is instead a dense and compelling character study of an innovator whose determination to change the world with products led him to spurn many of the closest people in his life.

In brief, Price concluded that the groups he studied maintained good health not simply because they were limited to a more primitive environment and lacked industrial foods, but because they had accumulated wisdom about how to select important nutrient - dense foods and possessed the strength of character necessary to procure those foods even when doing so proved difficult.

Even Moneyball, the closest thing to a # 11 for me, didn't cut it, despite being a dense, rewarding character study from two of the best writers in the industry headlined by a charismatic and authentic turn from one of the finest actors working today.

In this comparative study, at once historical and anthropological, Peel explores the intertwined character of the three religions and the dense imbrication of religion in all aspects of Yoruba history up to the present.