It's delightful to find (never concoct!) such moments, in which a chance encounter or a sudden revelation changes an ordinary life into the kind of life that people get paid to write books about, since those moments enable the biographer to construct the sort of conversion narrative, or Dick Whittington before-and-after story, that readers find familiar and take pleasure in.
They thought like studio filmmakers, constructing images anywhere with the sort of ideas about composition that they derived from filmmakers working in studios.
Another issue on trial seems to be whether a huge volume of data on nuclear tests and bomb features, the information Dr. Lee downloaded, is as important as simple blueprints for constructing bombs, the sort of prize that might have been sought in traditional spycraft.
If it does not do so, Qatar 2022 will be constructed on the sort of brutality we naively associate with a bygone era.
"At the time, I had no friends at all, even fewer than I do now, um, and I was sitting in my attic for years on end, constructing this, sort of, er, construct - heh heh - in my head, and on paper and in music".
North Korea has yet to embark on constructing for him the sort of full-fledged personality cult that surrounds Kim Jong Il and the late Kim Il Sung.
They thought like studio filmmakers, constructing images — anywhere — with the sort of ideas about composition that they derived from filmmakers working in studios.
It's simply a list, constructed by me, of the sort of thing that's been uncool and untrendy and slightly embarrassing for 30 years.
It's the sort of expertly constructed set-piece McCann is particularly good at, and his imagistically lucid prose nicely captures the craziness and excitement of the moment.
It's the sort of tightly constructed, soulless comedy that Michael Frayn sent up in "Noises Off," which was a major inspiration for Mr. Walsh.
