Sentences with phrase «perceptive character»

REMEMBER ME is a turgid excuse for a perceptive character study / romance that pins its hopes on a twist that is not so much a jolt as an affront.

It's a wonderful story for a start, with some of the most perceptive characters ever created, but it's also full of wisdom about the nature of human relationships.

Not exact matches

Nature's openness to divine influence becomes intelligible only if we understand causation in terms of the perceptive or «prehensive» character of occasions.

In a very perceptive, but as yet unpublished, paper devoted to evaluation and to evaluating those who evaluate, Paul Weiss has called attention to the highly practical character of the theoretical work of logical analysis, thereby helping to verify Whitehead's famous dictum that the paradox is now fully resolved which states that our most abstract concepts are our best and most useful instruments with which to come to understand concrete matters of fact and practical affairs.

Part gentle comedy, part perceptive, Cassavetian blue - collar character study, it's also tellingly poignant despite it's shaggy - dog style structure fair riveted together by Buscemi's compelling central performance.

He later awarded the film four stars as well, and said the film was «too subtle and perceptive» to treat the characters» «lack of sexual synchronicity as if it supplies a plot.»

A perfectly cast narrative that turns what looks like archetypical cliches into personable and effective characters, Strangers is a extremely perceptive look at modern America and its historical role as a melting pot.

Writer - director Boris Rodriguez's feature - film debut starts out reasonably well, sketching in the principal characters and rural setting with broad but compelling strokes, even doling out some perceptive laughs, before the narrative loses steam when it bogs down in repetition and predictability.

And he's not even the lead character in this bitingly perceptive family drama by writer - director Robert Edwards.

Nonetheless, Judge has come up with a wry, perceptive, always - amusing comedy, highlighted by some memorable characters, chief among them the gangsta - rap - loving Michael Bolton; the ever - unctuous Lumbergh; and Milton (Stephen Root), a perpetually stepped - on (or, rather, completely ignored) soft - spoken co-worker.

Everything that has been said about Kristin Scott Thomas» portrayal of Juliette is true; this is quite possibly the richest, most complicated character that has been written for a mature female actor in several years, and she seizes upon it to craft the most honest and perceptive performance of her career.

Ng's prose is exceptionally perceptive; she realistically conveys her characters» inner motivations, dreams and disappointments, providing a rich understanding of what has brought them all to this particular juncture.

Brunetti, both a perceptive investigator and a warmhearted family man, is one of the treasured characters of contemporary mystery fiction.

It's a perceptive interview, showing that genre fiction, in particular romantic comedy / chick lit, can reveal character and substance... along with the fun and fluff.

Arranged chronologically, it reveals Milne to be a particularly perceptive artist and a unique character.