A Family, a Laboratory, and an EMBO Award A flair for research questions, independent work, and persuasiveness mark the career of French biologist Sandrine Etienne-Manneville.
Yet his creative flair for market research, combined with spiritual yearnings that took varied forms at different phases of his life, enabled him to grasp the psychological gambits most likely to succeed with compulsive drinkers: companionship without moralistic preachments and a programmatic agenda for reform.
As in her biographies, Harman here demonstrates a flair for distilling reams of research into a succinct, lively narrative.
The result is "a detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right" that combines "prodigious research with journalistic flair," William Kristol wrote here in 2001.
Combining prodigious research with journalistic flair, an independent scholar traces the origins of today's conservative movement to the candidate who was overwhelmingly defeated for president in 1964.
It has, and Kanfer, for all his scrupulous research and narrative flair, leaves that paradox more or less as it was -- unexamined.
His Man Booker-shortlisted C had many brilliant passages, but unlike Remainder their brilliance was largely a matter of conventional virtuosity (descriptive flair combined with impressively mastered research on interesting subjects, ie first-world-war flying machines), while its neo-modern components – more Pynchonesque, here, than Ballardian or Oulipian – felt distinctly tired.
A flair for important-yet-underestimated research questions and a stubborn aspiration to independence are the leitmotifs in Etienne-Manneville's career so far.
He marshalls vast research with grace and flair.
Foster's lethally earnest style is anything but sexy, and his convoluted argument often takes maddening turns, but his research shows real archival flair.
