The best moments in the work are brilliant, but the impulse to say things succinctly sometimes leads to key episodes feeling rushed.
Simple moves can be the best, and some desperate ones turn out to be brilliant; others reflect the impulse that leads one to cut off a Barbie doll's hair because it doesn't look the way it did when you got it.
Pictures of persons of average intelligence radiate 15 impulses, less brilliant types scale downward.
Her first impulse was strategically brilliant - to send her daughter to fetch her husband from the pub before he made an irretrievable fool of himself.
"But Mr. Greenaway turns this tale of a bullying criminal and his unfaithful wife into something profound and extremely rare: a work so intelligent and powerful that it evokes our best emotions and least civil impulses, so esthetically brilliant that it expands the boundaries of film itself".
His signature idiom is purely percussive, a hunkered-down demonstration of his brilliant footwork and extraordinarily acute rhythmic impulses.
It's a brilliant sendup of the more absurd impulses of musical-theater composers, written by and starring the terrific David Pittu.
If you want an immediate sense of Lawrence's far-reaching influence, here it is, in the work of a brilliant younger artist who has taken his narrative impulse, in all its dynamic complexity, in innovative directions.
The beauty of this, and the reason Howard's original impulse to have it without words was so brilliant, is that they can talk to each other about it while they watch.
Her first play, Blood and Ice, about Mary Shelley and the writing of Frankenstein, is a brilliant, almost feverishly poetic and dramatic exploration of the feminist impulse and its limits.
