Sentences with phrase «detailed psychological portrait»

In exploring the international terrorist who took the title's nom de guerre, Olivier Assayas, in Carlos, focused more on the vast disconnect between the man himself and the rock - star image he cultivated than in necessarily painting a detailed psychological portrait.

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Carr's novel goes into tremendous detail as it explores the early origins of psychological profiling and forensic science, while also offering an eye - opening portrait of urban life under 19th century capitalism, in a time of tremendous wealth inequality and social injustice.

This is an expansive, rich psychological portrait first, and a detailed pastiche second.

A character - portrait novel in the full definition of that type — which means as meticulous in detail and as sound in psychological understanding as a biography — Irishman Tóibín's latest rich novel, following the provocative Testament of Mary (2012), is self - assured in its authenticity, daring in the male author's presumption of inhabiting a female protagonist, and all this is achieved through prose at once alive and understated.

While it includes all the requisite details of Hemingway's storied life — the love affairs, the feuds, the wars (real and emotional)-- that shaped the writer in all his complexity, her portrait is a largely psychological one, seeking both the impetus for his distinctive fiction as well as the roots of the failures in his personal life.