He's a good storyteller and a good critic: he describes both documentaries and features with warmth and perceptive detail.
Sombre, sensual, saturated with perceptive detail and directed from the keyboard by Emmanuelle Haïm, the unhurried performance of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's expanded continuo section (three theorbos, lirone, violone, viola da gamba, cello, organ, harp and harpsichord) is the only aspect of Robert Carsen's theatrically muddled Glyndebourne production to prioritise the libretto.
This is a perceptive point.
Aswany's empathy combines with perceptive narrative detail to make the appeal of the cleric richly comprehensible, yielding an entirely credible evocation of the making of a terrorist.
It is this combination of perceptive everyday detail and reflective observation on the universe's big questions that makes Fire Colour One so captivating.
Intelligence and wit take the place of inspiration; a handful of perceptive and memorable details (such as one particularly fine scene between George and Elizabeth involving his stuttering, or the apparent lack of makeup noticeable on the actors, revealing characters' mottled complexions) stand in for a comprehensive vision.
To Andy Breckman, Monk's orderly mind, logical methods, meticulous attention to detail and perceptive analysis of criminal behavior make him something of a cross between Sherlock Holmes, minus the ego, and a neater, cleaner Columbo.
For anyone interested in studying the continuum of printed communications — from logos to posters, from the political to the commercial, from early writing to digital design — Drucker, who has taught art history at Yale, and McVarish, who teaches at the California College of the Arts, provide detailed, often perceptive accounts of graphic design and its precursors.
It's a banal detail but perceptive, pointing towards a corporate coercion that governs healthcare and energy supply in the States.
It blends life experience, psychological insight, personal implication, and deeply perceptive attention to moments and details that might otherwise elude memory — and in which she locates ideas of an enduring value, ideas that really are in the movie and which she has the imaginative sympathy to find there because she finds them in herself.
Despite all the vivid detail and the perceptive analysis, Mortimer remains elusive, and this is Grove's point.
