There may be too much for the telling.
It also reveals Jacobs's eye for the telling human and social details that bring streets and communities to life.
But all three men ricochet gamely among roles, each bringing a caricaturist's eye for the telling broad stroke.
She has an extraordinary eye for the telling nuance of social interaction within a particular kind of liberal elite.
But for the most part, Mr Parker tells an extraordinary, neglected and shameful story with gusto and a keen eye for the telling contemporary quotation.
But even here Mr Gaddis's mastery of the material, his fluent style and eye for the telling anecdote make his new work a pleasure.
The epic of modernism is really a pluralist tale involving several modernisms, not all of which require French masterpieces for the telling.
He may be benign, but he has a mercurial wit, a cartoonist's eye for the telling gesture, a spiky morality, a gleeful touch of anarchy.
"Dunmore's carefully observed stories demonstrate her ear for language and her eye for the telling moment," Sarah Ferguson wrote in these pages in 2003.
Fortunately this author of a televised novel (A Very British Coup) is a lively writer with a good ear for the telling phrase and a fondness for flowers.
He had a great ear for the telling phrase and he respected reporters who had done their time and had opinions of their own.
