Occasionally, a sharply observed moment pierces through the glibness.
"The stories selected from Mantel's collection The Assassination Of Margaret Thatcher are dark and sharply observed.
Sharply observed songs about the complexities of middle age have been good to Ms. Womack.
His stories, witty and sharply observed, are fine examples of craft and character.
It's clever – smartly written by James Wood (and Hollander too in this opener), and sharply observed.
The album's last track is "South Side Story," a collection of sharply observed cautionary tales.
These "taut, edgy and sharply observed" tales form "a volume of polished gems".
Tessa Hadley's Everything Will Be All Right (Cape) relishes the multi-generational stretch and the power of sharply observed detail.
Then modernity bursts in, in the shape of a sharply observed, callow TV crew making a film about environmental degradation.
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"Original Pirate Material" is full of sharply observed, bleakly funny tales of everyday life, with scenarios ranging from a cash-flow crisis to a brandy-fueled binge.
