The movie is stunningly intelligent; the concluding passages, in which the game abruptly ends for both men, are frightening and, finally, very moving.
Get intelligent intelligence.
With a well-managed drip-feed of information and a genuinely intriguing plot that revolves around various types of domestic violence, Someone Else's Skin is, despite a tendency to trip over its own feet in some of the descriptive passages, an intelligent, assured and very promising debut.
It was poetic, intelligent and equally adept with the passages of gentle rain as those of rolling thunder.
But "Istanbul Passage" is enlivened by intelligent plotting and its vivid evocation of the city itself, a setting rich in centuries of intrigue.
He, Beard, that is, memorized passages that appeared to him intelligent and especially sonorous.
Some of these seem like a neurotic writer's attempt to micromanage directors, or like passages from an unrealized novel ("Lucy is an intelligent, healthy American girl suffering from an overdose of undigested reading").
However, through the passage of time, more advanced and intelligent methods have been proposed.
It's all intelligent, literate and meticulously diagramed: Frank's every outburst and observation (diary passages are used as narration) fill in some aspect of her character.
Standing tall among mainstream movies, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, written by Tony Kushner, offered an intelligent if dramatically bloodless account of the drama behind the difficult passage of the U.S. Constitution's Thirteenth Amendment (1865), outlawing slavery.
The pleasures of spending several hundred pages in the company of an intelligent woman and her gifted husband pale only when we stumble over certain passages that a dispassionate adviser might have counseled Fraser to omit.
