Sentences with phrase «even earnest discussions»

It cuts back and forth in time; it draws parallels between different modes of prejudice and abuse; it pictures external events (the 1936 Olympics where Louie ran in the 5000 - meter race and apparently spotted and admired Jesse Owens [Bangalie Keita] from across the track); and it also imagines Louie's elusive interior life, not in letters home read aloud or even earnest discussions with other prisoners, but instead, and more shrewdly, in repeated tight frames on his face.