Readers male and female will need great maturity to approach this self-examining but redemptive account of a child soldier, told by journalist Patricia McCormick in Arn's naturalistic south-east Asian voice.
The two share naturalistic scenes that alternate with Johann's thoughtful voice-overs.
However, instead of complying with the writer's request, his literary agent, Sidney Colvin, asked Cassell to publish two of the fairy stories – The Bottle Imp and The Isle of Voices – in a volume alongside a naturalistic short story of a completely different type.
While male groups from Kraftwerk to Zapp to the Jonzun Crew have made trademarks out of inhuman, distorted voices, until recently women have usually gotten a naturalistic treatment, even if their vocals are snipped into samples for dance tracks.
His hefty, tonally focussed, richly colored voice cut through the tumult of Goldenthal's score, and his vital, naturalistic acting gave heart to a high-tech spectacle.
Mr. Ghobadi uses nonprofessional actors and tells his story in a naturalistic style that purposely blurs the distinction between fiction and documentary -- the voice-over in the film's early scenes consists of an interview between Ayoub's younger sister, Amaneh, and an unidentified adult.
And the vocal work (mostly filled with actual voice over artists, save for Delroy Lindo and Christopher Plummer) is splendidly low-key and naturalistic and always at the service of the story (Ed Asner is wonderful per usual, although most of Carl's best moments are silent ones).
Büchner, the elder brother of the physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner, exercised a marked influence on the naturalistic drama that came into vogue in the 1890s and, later, on the Expressionism that voiced the disillusionment of many artists and intellectuals after World War I.
With his lean frame and whispery voice, he could shift effortlessly between all-seeing visionaries and grandly sadistic villains, while seldom finding a more naturalistic mix in between that might have made him a lasting star.
