It was then that Miley's stark everyday routine at the Garioch amateur swimming club in Inverurie seemed such an acute study in contrast.
Psychologically, the play is an acute study of a chattering, cock-eyed optimist who is too good for the world she inhabits.
It was a terrific feature from debutant writer-director Li Yang called Blind Shaft: part psychological thriller, part acute study of the itinerant poor in northern China.
Schiller's spirited analysis of one of the great crises of Elizabeth I's reign - what to do about Mary, her troublesome, imprisoned cousin (and aspirant to the throne) - emerges as an acute study in the art of double-dealing politics.
"Scroggins brings Sudan's agony to vivid life; at the same time, she gives us a lyrical, suspenseful, psychologically acute study in idealism and self-delusion," George Packer wrote here in 2002.
The reason Hogg's film won our award, surely, is that it is such an acute study of its central character: a fortysomething woman, in the middle of an emotional crisis, who is holidaying in Italy with a friend's family.
'Gosford Park' Robert Altman turns the cozy worlds of "Upstairs Downstairs" and Agatha Christie whodunits inside out in the sociologically acute study of an early-30's English shooting party.
But the good thing about this remarkable first full-length work by Chris Urch is that, without denying the strength of the mining culture, it becomes an acute study of disgrace under pressure.
This is an acute study of the behavioural ruts as well as the mercurial complexity of family relationships.
The DVD set features Lewton's nine essential, offbeat thrillers, including Wise's 1944 directorial début, "The Curse of the Cat People," an acute study of childhood imaginary-friend syndrome, and his insidiously creepy expansion of Robert Louis Stevenson's grave-digging short story, "The Body Snatcher" (1945).
Nine patients continued with aripiprazole following the acute study.
