They're sharply observant but not very nuanced; the image of a materialist Buddha clutching cigarettes, beer and a cellphone is typical.
Even if this production doesn't efface memories of the last Almeida revival, there are sharply observant performances from Michael Elwyn as the manipulative Tory leader, Gerrard McArthur as a silky moralist and Louis Hilyer as a booming pragmatist.
It is sharply procumbent, tilting sharply forward.
May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes (Granta), is a sharply observant, if slightly fantastical, satire on modern family life that made me laugh out loud.
A graduate of the UEA creative writing course, Benn is a sharply observant writer with a great eye for detail, but what really makes this book a cut above the average gangland thriller is the character of Bane himself.
I love Moriarty because she is so sharply observant of domestic scenes, particularly scenes that involve a hierarchy of women or parents trying to manage children, and because her humor is sharp and cutting, while still forgiving of the flawed characters.
In novels, plays and essays, Soyinka is a sharply observant, sympathetic witness of the human experience.
"Spoof Odyssey," directed by Mr. Alessandrini and Phillip George, is as sharply observant as any chapter in the show's series.
But I preferred it to his prize-winning Constellations, in that it's a sharply observant social comedy about the exponential growth of a compensation culture based on fabricated accidents: not quite as savage, perhaps, as Billy Wilder's 1966 movie The Fortune Cookie, but nonetheless highly amusing.
She is by turns sharply observant, witty, and when she feels the occasion demands it, she can be acerbic.
"Newlyweeds," the first feature directed by Shaka King, is a breezily paced, sharply observant portrait of a struggling, polyglot neighborhood whose poorer residents exhibit a feisty resilience as they do whatever is necessary to survive.
