Season 3 finds Luther as embattled as ever, the subject of an internal-affairs investigation, spurred by his old nemesis Erin Gray (Nikki Amuka-Bird), that threatens to bring a definitive end to his uneasy partnership with the young detective Justin Ripley Warren Brownn).
"The director Mike Nichols, smartly taking advantage of television's intimacy, creates such a raw, private encounter with Vivian that we seem to be peering into a soul as embattled as its body," Caryn James wrote in The New York Times.
The director Mike Nichols, smartly taking advantage of television's intimacy, creates such a raw, private encounter with Vivian that we seem to be peering into a soul as embattled as its body.
Caryn James of The New York Times also described it as "one of her most brilliant performances", adding "we seem to be peering into a soul as embattled as its body".
Few politicians are as embattled as Villaraigosa is these days: he is confronting a $530 million budget deficit, a cranky electorate, plunging poll numbers and an increasingly hostile press.
Embattled as it may have been, at least Baghdad had a metal scene that amounted to more than a handful of grown men nervously listening to Metallica on headphones in their bedroom..
Embattled as she may have been, Rich's move to LACMA in 1995 came as a shock to many at the university and the museum.
Yet, as embattled as Polio felt, Frazier said, "I would bet he was the most powerful person in this town".
The site has been embattled as old press and state attorneys general use any excuse to blame sex crimes on the site.
WHEN Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pays his first presidential visit to Washington this week, will pundits portray him as "embattled" or as "in command"?
