As much a sustained character portrait as a novel of love and war, the book examines the choices made by such a man as Chris – diffident, cautious, responsible.
In color, Kamrowski's "sustained character" can seem a bit overbearing, as reflected in harsh hues and chiseled organic shapes that might almost be made of carved rock.
A complicated mixture of finding a choreographer who can sustain character development and narrative through dance over several hours; a score that can contribute to the story; and a subject that offers resonant characters and doesn't slot the work into the pastiche-historical terrain that the genre suggests.
In 1950, the not unbiased Surrealist chieftain André Breton singled out Gerome Kamrowski among the young painters he encountered in New York during the war as "the one who has impressed me far the most by reason of the quality and sustained character of his research".
"So I learned a lot more about sustaining a character, staying inside a character, night after night".
— promoting growth in transit-rich areas, sustaining local character elsewhere, occasionally putting too much faith in developers but generally imposing order on chaos.
That is why actors come and go so fleetingly in "The Thin Red Line," killed off less by combat than by the director's impatience with the whole business of sustaining a character, and why his camera lingers so avidly on trees, not just in "The Tree of Life" itself but in the latest film.
"This is a great group of guys who showed that they didn't quite live up to reputations, but we sustained our character," Valentine said.
He was required to sustain a character, and to lend it an arc, whereas his natural tendency, given any arc, was to bend it or snap it in two.
"This project maintained and sustained the character of the city while combining all the romantic things we see in the movies, such as balconies overlooking a courtyard and hanging stairways," Mr. Hillier said.
