Gallant depicts failures of communication with exquisite subtlety: characters talk but rarely listen; conversations become "double monologues".
Tennessee Williams was thirty-four years old when his exquisite four-character study about family, memory, and love-as-chance premièred on Broadway.
For instance: We read Charlotte Brontë not for exquisite observation of character — her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy — hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life — hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry.
In "Dreams From My Father," Obama showed passion, lyricism, empathy and an exquisite understanding of character and psychological context — all the qualities that he has stubbornly resisted showing as president.
Readers of "Intuition", however, will battle with themselves over whether to savour Allegra Goodman's exquisite filleting of character, as the scientists are themselves dissected like their experimental mice, or to rush headlong to find out what happens next.In an under-funded Harvard laboratory, the dogged, unglamorous slog towards finding a cure for cancer is under way.
The lavish, colorful depictions of stately villas with their sumptuous furnishings and immortal art work and the characters' exquisite attire are matched by the director's carnal delight in the beautiful people themselves.
The handsome and soulful Mison manages to wring exquisite inflections from his character's endless exclamations of "leftenant".
While the movie unfolds in broad strokes, Ms. MacLaine treats this character with exquisite sensitivity and without condescension.
Mr. Fiennes luxuriates in the character's exquisite monologues, like a precocious teenager introduced to the bleak pleasures of existential philosophy.
In "Body Double 15," he redoes the famous museum sequence from Mr. De Palma's "Dressed to Kill," casting himself in the roles of the exquisite, sex-starved Angie Dickinson character and her seducer: a mirror image of herself.
