Nonetheless, "Luna" is less an allegory about the universe than a minute examination of matter, and matter in this case is dancing, examined by Ms. Laurin with the microscopic precision of a lab technician.
Unsmiling policemen subject passports and luggage to minute examination.
That means the glass, set in lead, could have sagged or been weakened and will need minute examination.
In her minute examination of these transactions, in her very self-absorption, Beatrice is a classic heroine of a bildungsroman.
They creep stiffly across his head and face as if engaged in a minute examination for signs of life.
The German counter-proposals, it is repeated, "raise certain questions of principle and will necessitate a serious and minute examination".
Two revelatory books have recently been published, triggering minute examination of Mr Jospin's radical past in search of clues to his elusive character.
The Cain-mark of academe, it usually threatens the minute examination, at great length, of immaterial evidence about something or the other not very important, in language few can understand and noone could enjoy.
In this minute examination of a dense and darkening cluster of sound, the listener could momentarily detect snatches of melody, cries and electronic birdsong, all within a static and omnipresent blast.
Jule Böwe's Kristin sustains minute examination of her every pore and illuminatingly suggests a woman whose eavesdropping anxiety conceals a working-class strength and, as she presses flowers between the pages of her Bible, inner devoutness.
