His perceptive comments and brilliant style won him a wide audience in both Europe and the United States.
The author of many cricket books, he is regarded as one of Australia's finest cricket writers, with a perceptive and occasionally sardonic style, marked by persistent criticisms of Bradman.
Compared to J M Synge and Patrick McCabe, praised by The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas author John Boyne and chosen to be the first novelist published by Doubleday Ireland, Ryan has a writing style that is perceptive, intimate and darkly comic, revealing the human cost of the financial crisis by creating a chorus of overlapping voices.
In its freewheeling spirit and scrappy style, this playful but perceptive comedy represents much of what Ms. Stewart worked so valiantly to produce: theater that makes no concessions to cut-and-dried forms or cultural norms, but that goes its own merry, messy way, creating meaning and beauty from the deeply personal visions of artists who are happy to labor far from the mainstream.
Jón Thoroddsen wrote two novels that acquired a position not incommensurate with that of the medieval sagas: Piltur og stúlka (1850; Lad and Lass) and the incomplete Maður og kona (1876; "Man and Woman"), distinguished in prose style, narrative skill, wit, and perceptive observation of peasant and small-town life.
He veers from a slangy, conversational, wisecracking style to the tone of a perceptive philosopher, unable to resist mesmerising us with alliteration or suddenly dropping on us the sort of rhythmic street poetry that earned him the reluctant soubriquet "godfather of rap", equally able to evoke a mood of urgency or tenderness.
(Chinen) RORY STUART QUARTET (Friday) Rory Stuart is a guitarist with a lithe style and a quartet that features the perceptive and reclusive Mark Shim on tenor saxophone.
I've only heard excerpts of the letter, but its wit and style really impressed me, as well as what a perceptive musical mind she had.
"Trump has succeeded in unleashing an old gene in American politics – the crude tribalism that Richard Hofstadter named the paranoid style," wrote the New Yorker's Evan Osnos on a perceptive piece about the roots of Trumpism.
Broadway's new production, which had a fall run in Toronto, was also directed by the uncannily perceptive Eyre, and it offers a provocative and combustible mix of acerbic wit, style, visceral sexual yearning, split-second comic timing, and that elusive trait known as chemistry, which occurs between Gross and Cattrall, and also between their superb costars, Simon Paisley Day and Anna Madeley.
With a fierce, hard-hitting style, Williams has so far made what was once considered a peculiar choice a perceptive one.
