More serious is the cheesy articulation of characters' inner lives, which seldom rises above a teen-novel banality - "He really wanted to stay her boyfriend" - and when it does, misfires into utter weirdness, as in this, of Shannon, after Ian first kisses her: "She felt, well, pithed".
Mr. Corvino brings both a Verdi baritone richness and a crisp articulation of the character's broken English to the title song, "The Most Happy Fella," when Tony receives a promising letter from Rosabella, with an enclosed photograph.
The film's characters were designed by Tony Fucile and Teddy Newton, whom Bird had brought with him from Warner Bros. Like most computer-animated films, The Incredibles had a year-long period of building the film from the inside out: modeling the exterior and understanding controls that work face and body – the articulation of the character – before animation could even begin.
Tasleem Shakur and Karen D'Souza write in their book Picturing South Asian culture in English that "Homer and Apu" typifies the key articulation of the character of Apu juxtaposed to Homer, "something like his alter-ego", where Homer is the all American, Duff drinking, rather lazy nuclear plant worker, and Apu is the immigrant, clean living, hard working, small businessman.
These are more than dusty stabs in the late sun: Bragg's interview with Benedict Cumberbatch, for example, presents an articulation of Hamlet's character as lucid and unpretentious as the actor's Barbican performances.
Collaborating with others in the interpretive process sparks the imagination which expands our sense of articulation, character and color, and inspires us to recreate a work in a more meaningful way.
Time gave the film a positive review, saying "In craftsmanship and delicacy of drawing and coloring, in the articulation of its dozens of characters, in the greater variety and depth of its photographic effects, it tops the high standard Snow White set.
The Choir of Clare College Cambridge sang with crisp articulation and a distinctive sense of character.
The variety of touch, articulation, color and character in Ms. Uchida's pianism is uncanny.
What with the vivid markings of its slippery characters and the supple articulation of its serpentine plot, Robert Barnard's satirical mystery UNHOLY DYING (Scribner, $23) is a thing of beauty.
