The Girl in the Dark is a potent character, and it may soon appear onscreen.
Scott Mendelson, also of The Huffington Post, felt that when you put the "glaring issues aside," the film "still works as a potent character study and a glimpse inside a world we'd rather pretend does not exist in America".
But while the film "succeeds as a powerful acting treat and a potent character study, there are some major narrative issues that prevent the film from being an accidental masterpiece".
She sees and judges everything, and is a lioness in defence of Mariko Kida's Juliet, a similarly potent character who mixes wilfulness with self absorption and wide-eyed curiosity, qualities that colour her duets with Romeo.
It is not like, say, the 1950's, when the bad mother portrayed in best-selling advice books and magazines was a scarily potent character, capable of causing autism, homosexuality and the spread of Communism, while the good mother, like a domesticated superhero, upheld the American Way.
Nonetheless, she is the book's only potent character, a smooth, confident seductress, using Benjamin for sex while he is her more or less passive object.
Perhaps the most potent character trait of traditional Jewish identity is a sense of the other, a respect for the other, an honoring of the other.
Miller, a wheezy-sounding 57-year-old from Maryland, is a comic-book legend – working for both the Marvel and DC powerhouses, re-tooling some of their most potent characters, notably Daredevil and Batman, and in doing so, turning comics into an accepted adult art form.
That would lead eventually to the core anthropological problem of figuring out the parts of two iconic figures who appeared sporadically to great fanfare but little visible progress -- first Al Gore, who presented himself as the victim of cosmic injustice, and then George W. Bush, who promised that many questions would someday be answered by a potent but elusive character known as Jim Baker.
Both compounds show a potent full agonist character on ERβ (EC50 = 0.23 nM for 2c and 1.3 nM for 2d).
Precious was a potent story of character and society, and a masterpiece of acting.
