But, Mr. Lewis said, as his disability has worsened, Mr. Selinger's writing has sharpened and his sense of self deepened.
That movie audiences have, over the years, watched them grow older, and may retain images of their younger, brasher selves, only deepens the sense of affectionate familiarity.
As my fascination mounted, and my self-loathing deepened, I reminded myself that there are worse things than rabid bloggers (cancer, for instance) and that people suffer greater degradations than becoming writers.
The latest power struggles in the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority exercises limited self-rule, deepened the image of political disarray, days before Secretary of State John Kerry was expected back in the region to try to revive peace talks with Israel.
As her self-awareness deepened, she made important life changes: focusing on her personal health, meditating daily and committing to time for herself.
I was just chubby, and sometimes quite chubby, with a hunger that threatened to make matters worse and a gnawing, deepening self-consciousness that Mom picked up on and that she decided she might have a solution to.
Madonna simply doesn't have the flexibility or power to embody agonized ambition, fierce self-disgust or the deepening desperation that the part invites.
The main casualty of these convulsive literary mantraps is the idea of 'character' as a steadily deepening awareness of self and world.
Colonists had to fend for themselves, deepening those characteristics of self-government and self-initiative.
His ever deepening voice, the self-mockery, to see him now deadpan and dapper is still quite something.
Its politics have evolved far beyond caricatures of left and right, and the country now enjoys the beginnings of a deepening prosperity and self-confidence.
