Andrew Hagangan's book is set in the fabular fictive tradition of animals offering up razor-sharp perceptions on the often silly world of human beings.
The performances by Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard as the repressed would-be lovers are exquisitely modulated; the narrative is tightly constructed (it is, at 86 minutes, Lean's shortest picture); the black-and-white cinematography of Robert Krasker is eloquent, its crispness a neat reflection of the painfully sharp perception the lovers share in their fleeting afternoons together.
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel," a lavish trove of sharp perceptions and firm opinions, includes the author's vision of her next novel that is, the present one, foreseen as "spherical and self-contained, but jammed with things, like a spaceship made of Venetian glass, shining, intricate, and full of colors".
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel," a lavish trove of sharp perceptions and firm opinions, includes the author's vision of her next novel — that is, the present one, foreseen as "spherical and self-contained, but jammed with things, like a spaceship made of Venetian glass, shining, intricate, and full of colors".
Sharp perceptions like this, or the sound of Velcro ripping, or the "strange gurgle" of a razorbill, rise out from passages that seem submerged.
She described him as "a mainstream choreographer who is totally fluent and whose idiom, sharp perceptions and humor bear some relationship to the work of Paul Taylor".
And admirable too was his courage to express indignation and compassion within the same breath, while his eyes, full of dagger-sharp perception and canine-soft intelligence, forgave us all.
The mastery of literary analysis develops sharper perception, broader understanding, better judgment and more resilient character.
Aside from almost backhandedly making a sharp point about the perception of immigrants and language, Gaffar is allowed hugely important monologues in which the only word the other characters can understand is "Thermos".
