Time to introduce them to the complexities of Shakespeare's rendering of character.
Their talent often blazes through the screen, their presences are vital, but the spare rendering of character and the tight mechanism of the plot allow them few chances to shine.
"Osmosis Jones," with its effluvia-festival brand of humor, is often fun, and the rounded, blobby rendering of the characters is likable.
His rendering of female characters was entirely convincing, but even more impressive was how he could render both sides of a marital spat or an argument between two family members, one lazy and one busy.
It seems slightly comical that, say, Irvine Welsh's faithful rendering of his characters' speech was seen as such a daring step forward; Greenwood was there six decades before, and just about all the novel's speech is rendered authentically.
Fortunately the novel eschews the wilder plot contrivances of her last book, "The Agüero Sisters," and Ms. García's calm, knowing rendering of her characters' stories slowly gathers momentum, as the reader comes to see the connections among family members' choices, and the strange variations that fate and temperament work on their lives.
The result is "an incendiary-pastoral" tale with "a vividly rendered cast of characters," Tom Drury said here last year.
Ms. Erbe praised the playwright's rendering of her character.
Decorum, in literary style, the appropriate rendering of a character, action, speech, or scene.
He's well matched, alas, in his emphatic rendering of his character by Michelle Beck's bluntly drawn Hero, who is notably short on pathos and vulnerability.
