That Rawson Michael Thurber, who directed and wrote the screenplay, was motivated by sincere affection for Mr. Chabon's book is evident in his scrupulous attempt to capture the novel's delicate tone, which is poised between whimsy and heartbreak.
Matthiessen is scrupulous in his endeavour, mediated through Olin, to map the complex inheritance of the camps, resisting attempts to frame the "huge cold crimes" which saturate the landscape; yet ultimately both author and protagonist choose to abdicate their quest for a deeper intellectual response in pursuit of more consoling narratives: family, love, religion.
The collective novel which follows, while still written in the cloak of an historic style, and, therefore, continuously attempting to be scrupulous to the welter of a hundred confusing and opposed facts, will now unashamedly enter that world of strange lights and intuitive speculation which is the novel.
Despite torrents of brutality, much of it coming after Lilly's botched escape attempts, there is no danger of rape from the scrupulous villains in "The Missing".
Ryan is scrupulous in presenting the arguments of each thinker, making no attempt to denounce some as wicked and dangerous, or precursors of totalitarian regimes.
Paula Giddings's devoted and scrupulous biography is not the first study of this pioneering woman, but it is a comprehensive work that attempts to portray her as part of the progressive movement that emerged among the black bourgeoisie in post-bellum America.
The accounting is scrupulous.
Predictably, and despite scrupulous patience, the nurse proceeds to "blow" two veins, much to his dismay, before he asks another nurse to make a third attempt, which succeeds.
