On the whole a superior example of its genre.
Thaw's next crime series, Thick As Thieves (1974), by Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais, is perhaps the joker in the pack, in that it was a situation comedy rather than a drama series, though a superior example of that form, exploring the pains of a precarious menage à trois.
Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca may be a superior example of deeply encoded female pornography but, nearly 70 years after it was written, the code seems to have worn so thin that the unsuspecting reader is slightly revolted.
Liebermann's piece is a superior example of the book-club operas that have thrived on American stages in recent years.
A reason that "Attempting Normal" is a superior example of an overcrowded genre — the comedian memoir — is Mr. Maron's hardheaded approach to his history, the wisdom of experience.
Finn (thirty-eight-year-old Daniel Mallory, a former editor at Morrow), is a superior example of a subset of recent thrillers featuring "unreliable" female protagonists who, despite their considerable handicaps — which may involve alcoholism, drug addiction, paranoia, and even psychosis — manage to persevere and solve mysteries where others have failed.
Alexis Petrids of The Guardian noted although some may see the single as "generic", and "currently pop's factory-default setting", he ascertained the song was "a superior example of the type, furnished with an effortlessly unshakeable chorus".
In Variety, Scott Foundas wrote that the film was a "superior example of fearless filmmakers in exactly the right place at the right time", and likely the best of a string of documentaries that have shone the light on US involvement in South America.
Many of these mine similar territory - you can probably guess where the evil lurks with titles like Phone and Into the Mirror - though Kim Jee-woon's forthcoming ghost story A Tale of Two Sisters is a superior example, thanks to some powerful acting and beautiful production design.
Sixty years ago, Terence Rattigan's plays ("The Browning Version," "The Winslow Boy," "Separate Tables") were superior examples of a certain style of pained upper-middle-class English reticence in which powerful emotions were held in check by such virtues as loyalty, courage, and honor.
