Others are a close study of a single formative text.
Rarely has there been a closer study of a loved person, the particulars of her beauty, the freckles on her pale skin, her personality, her unwavering devotion to her family, her flaws — her apparently too-small teeth, dislike of making decisions, hesitations, occasional passivity.
These visuals are like a close study of a beautiful surface, a meditation over the details to see more".
Based on known facts and calculations, the best selection is made after a close study of the installation, operation, and servicing of the motor.
As OBL is new to most Hong Kong higher education institutions, there is an urgent need for a close study of the design and implementation of OBL in the Hong Kong context.
Any progress in contemporary opera in the next ten or twenty years is likely to come from a close study of the Verdi canon.
The Idea of Israel is not a history book but a close study of the role of Zionist ideology in the making of modern Israel and of the continuing relevance of this ideology today in politics, the education system, the media, the cinema and Ashkenazi-Sephardi relations.
But the book does raise the question of whether a close study of self is not, after all, a losing game.
