Callas's personality and philosophy of performance are powerfully depicted in Terrence McNally's play Master Class (first performed and published 1995), based on her classes at Juilliard.
What Was Promised is certainly a novel about people, and the people in it are much more powerfully depicted than the characters he's given us before.
"I've always been struck by the tension between the empathy and sympathy that's powerfully depicted in many of those images, and the kind of stereotypes, racial language, that he uses in the text," Mr. Czitrom said.
This timely book, well translated from French by Frank Wynne and winner of an English PEN award, powerfully depicts the pain of both those who leave and those who remain.
Their misery, although powerfully depicted in scenes of confrontation or isolation, seems to be deeply private, personal, ultimately without reference to the ostensible political background introduced every now and then as Lahiri returns to the execution scene, playing it one way in depicting the brutality of the police and then the other in revealing Udayan's own complicity in a crime.
A striking aspect of the tale is the extraordinarily savage nature of Japan's political process during that time; the number of assassinations, and the bitterly factional nature of every institution from the court to the army are all powerfully depicted.
In its intimate way and with exquisite ferocity, Room powerfully depicts the unshakeable connection between parent and child and how love conquers darkness.
Entertainment Weekly wrote that the episode "Powerfully depicts both Mulder's gnawing sense of defeat and his bond with Scully, strangely growing stronger with separation" before concluding that the episode was "fairly standard".
Someone looking for a conventional novel or memoir might experience this as a kind of imaginative poverty, but it's his restraint that allows Waldrop to depict so powerfully the world "as it was and as it is".
Kuniaki Haishima composed the soundtrack of Other M. The team hired Haishima to write the music because the producers felt he could "tell the story with melodies" and "powerfully [helped] us depict Samus' feelings and emotions".
