It's a technique that's also used throughout the Third Symphony, a piece composed during Poland's period of martial law in the early 1980s, and work that creates an irresistible lyricism in some of the most powerfully melodic string writing of the late 20th century, a song that sings with a completely convincing but utterly novel expressivity.
Duty called, though, and he trapped his beautiful film criticism inside an utterly uninspired novel called "Point Omega".
And then he writes an utterly different novel, Fast Cars, packed full of violence, and swearing, and catharsis.
But if "The Last Flight of Poxl West," like "Skylock," is not a perfect book, it is still an utterly accomplished novel that fulfills many of its mission objectives.
Despite being nearly 800 pages long, The Goldfinch is an utterly accessible novel.
Before the days of smartphones, MacBooks, and Netflix, and even before AOL, Giga Pets, and Game Boys, there was a time when monitors were enormous, clunky, and utterly novel.
When Ladislas Starevich told this tale in the 1930s it was by no means new – versions of the Reynard story had been circulating around Europe for the best part of a millennium – but the means of telling it were utterly novel.
The Fifth hasn't sounded this exciting, or seemed so utterly novel, in years.
Which is not to say this film is utterly novel: audiences must remember Michael Apted's 7-Up TV documentary project.
While Bush presented himself as the true fulfillment of Reagan, resolving the political tensions of his half-breed father, the idea of Reaganism without California was utterly novel.
