It was so humane, so precisely observed and so aware of the tiniest resonances in language.
(John Arnone's set is precisely observed, striking the right note of tacky, woodsy quaintness).
It's so precisely observed, and so pretty, that the audience laughs in pleasure.
It precisely observes that strange mix of companionship and solitude found while waiting for a wave.
Jonathan Howells and Alastair Marriott are a good pair, their bickering precisely observed.
Risky, precisely observed and bracing in its matter-of-fact response to sexual exploration, it's coincidentally the week's second-best release to be set in Montclair, New Jersey.
At the center, though, is the tender, lyrical and precisely observed chronicle of an ordinary family in postwar Texas.
Rich's descriptions are precisely observed and well imagined (clouds are "curved like the grains of an oak board"), but his plot unfortunately, for a book about prophecy provides little surprise.
But the characters in the film, directed by Ms. Jaoui from a screenplay she wrote with her husband, Jean-Pierre Bacri (they both star in the movie), are so precisely observed that the forging and severing of these connections feels intuitively right.
"The Illumination" is a hymn to such suffering, and though the novel isn't always as dynamic as it might be, on this point it never fails to be deeply felt and precisely observed.
