As I got closer to the border agents, the people-watching changed from a game of spot the idiosyncrasy to full-on drama.
Mr. del Toro said that as producer, he dealt with "preserving the idiosyncrasies on both projects". Idiosyncrasy is a big deal in animation).
"Their deeper virtues," Mr. Sarris writes of these directors, "are often obscured by irritating idiosyncrasies on the surface, but they are generally redeemed by their seriousness and grace".
When Mr. Russell, in turn, makes a movie like "Silver Linings Playbook," he seems a model of Expressive Esoterica, those directors whose "deeper virtues," as Sarris wrote, "are often obscured by irritating idiosyncrasies on the surface".
For instance, he unfavorably compares the cookie-cutter ballparks of the 1970's and 80's with the eccentric ball yards of yore but ignores the fascinating subject of "ballpark effects" -- that is, the impact of playing field idiosyncrasies on a player's career.
"Monumentum" is displaced Gesualdo, and while that 16th-century Baroque master was outré in his day, and Stravinsky laid his own brassy idiosyncrasies on top of the vocal originals, the music sounds like stately Gabrieli next to the 12-tone astringencies of "Movements".
After 30 minutes, I was thinking Platinum's work here represented a low for the Star Fox series, that they'd tarnished its reputation by imprinting their own idiosyncrasies on proceedings without respecting the accessibility of prior entries.
After 30 minutes, I was thinking Platinum's work here represented a low for the Star Fox series, that the makers tarnished its reputation by imprinting their own idiosyncrasies on proceedings without respecting the accessibility of prior entries.
From the beginning, he insisted on the idiosyncrasy of sexual identity, resisting any attempt to press men and women into fixed categories.
Daniel is hellbent on recording every idiosyncrasy of his wealthy Roman Jewish clan, a tribe of voluptuaries who are "allergic to inner life," their customs summed up as "Twist.
