None of the director's flaws (his problematic portrayals of women, for example) is addressed, let alone examined, while failures such as the still-underrated Popeye are simply recounted rather than re-evaluated.
There is misery, sure – Winterson doesn't leave out the abuse she suffered at the hands of the woman she refers to throughout as "Mrs Winterson", nor its legacy – but there's also a determination to make sense of a relationship many would lack the courage to consider, let alone thoroughly examine.
Witnesses were not called, let alone cross-examined.
Qualitative assessments are not too much influenced by them, but small differences in position of a subject within the same scanner, let alone a subject examined on different MR systems, could have major effects on geometry if not corrected for.
Back at DC headquarters, an overworked staff doesn't have time to examine, let alone digest, lengthy and even not-so-lengthy missives from abroad, as their working day is consumed by answering phone calls from everyone under the sun, reacting to emails, and coordinating activities within a confused bureaucracy (they also have to each lunch; classified materials are not allowed in the cafeteria).
Well, who wouldn't love such a fast-moving and bitingly satirical plot, let alone one that also examines the nature and causes of financial dishonesty?
That's not an original story, let alone an interesting way to examine foreign policy.
The childhood obesity epidemic will not be slowed, let alone conquered, by individual researchers examining single causal pathways.
There are very few studies that specifically examine funding for research, let alone science or medical research specifically.
