Sholokhov's best-known work, Tikhy Don, is remarkable for the objectivity of its portrayal of the heroic and tragic struggle of the Don Cossacks against the Bolsheviks for independence.
Generally, treatment of the subject was remarkable for its sensitive objectivity, its awareness of form, colour, and sound, and its concise, often epigrammatic, expression.
Mill's manly plainness is especially evident in his massive 3-volume History of British India, which begins with a remarkable preface in which he asserts that his objectivity is guaranteed by the fact that he has never visited India.
It also has a remarkable record of bending over backward to prove its "objectivity" by turning piece after piece into a debate between a vast majority of scientists knowledgeable on the subject and a fringe of climate-change deniers and doubters.
"The idea that China's political reform is seriously lagging behind its remarkable economic development is not only contrary to the law of objectivity but also to the objective facts," it stated.
"I swear, if I'd been a Republican dad, Mark would have been a leftist son!" But it's Medium Cool that is most important, a remarkable, prescient film about a Chicago newsreel cameraman who finds his "objectivity" is a political trap, especially after his news director starts handing over his raw footage to the cops.
Yet, too often, this kind of writing about Africa has been at a distance, with the directive for "expert opinion" and "objectivity" stripping narratives of the blood and tears that make for truly remarkable storytelling.
And the "new objectivity" was represented by GW Pabst's Pandora's Box, starring a glowing, charismatic Louise Brooks, and the remarkable "documentary" People on Sunday.
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote's iconic non-fiction novel, was described upon its publication in 1966 as "'remarkable for its objectivity – nowhere, despite his involvement, does the author intrude".
