But in popularizing a popularizer, "QED" loses the original heat of its subject, leaving only bright chalky outlines of character (2 00).
In their final pitch to the Walt Disney Company, the creators designed a recorded storyboard, featuring a very rough outline of characters.
By now, several hundred literary masterpieces and curriculum perennials have been stripped of needless verbiage, distracting fillips of expression and confusing complication and pared down to breezy chapter-by-chapter plot outlines, lists of characters and succinct considerations of major themes.
He praised only one book for having "a national breadth to the picture, truthful outlining of character, natural speaking and plenty of strong feeling": "Uncle Tom's Cabin," by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
And Ms. Szalai noted that John William De Forest, a 19th-century novelist and one of the first to use the phrase, "praised only one book for having 'a national breadth to the picture, truthful outlining of character, natural speaking and plenty of strong feeling': 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' by Harriet Beecher Stowe".
It is related to the original only in the names and outlines of the characters.
It became brighter, and the dark outlines of the characters gained contrast.
Ms. Taylor understandably lacks such perspective, and while the actors fill in the blunt outlines of their characters reasonably well, there is little they can do to humanize them fully.
The Pepys who emerges from this book, not surprisingly, is very much the Pepys of the Diary, though in this case the bold outlines of his character are subtly shaded in with additional details and colors.
Mr. Shetty gives an intense performance, but the script provides him with only the outlines of a character.
