The novel is written in supple first-person, present-tense prose that is clean and lean, and offers occasional flashes of poetry.
If McCarthy's first novel, "Remainder" (2006), "emptied out interiority entirely," as Zadie Smith put it in an essay about the book's treatment of psychological realism, "Men in Space" predominantly relies on a supple third-person narration that elastically establishes what the novel calls a "mixture of closeness and distance".
Dr. Ekman marveled that he had never encountered a face like the Dalai Lama's, whose face was the most expressive he'd ever come across and whose facial muscles were as supple as those of a person in his twenties.
Chanel DaSilva, Jason Hartley and Mr. Perry, dressed identically in white shirts, gray slacks and matching ballet slippers, move with supple insouciance and little awareness of one another, suggesting that they are different aspects of the same person.
He waved the small glove, still relatively supple, with the new silver trace from a felt pen — the beautiful signature of Stan Musial, just applied in person.
With a gaunt face and supple, if provocative, intuitions, Beuys believed that art should instigate social change and that, through acts and deeds, every person was an artist.
Victor is, in a way, the counterpart to Greaves himself, the man without a structure, the energetic person left to his own devices; his rage is the alternative to efforts to construct a better organized, more supple societal order.
Tannins are usually supple.
