In 1954 Heisler helmed Beachhead, an effective World War II yarn starring Tony Curtis as a hard-boiled U.S. Marine, and the melodrama This Is My Love, the chief merit of which was the teaming of Darnell and Faith Domergue.
The chief merit of the book lies in the refutation of certain persistent arguments that historians have advanced regarding the pogroms.... Kopstein and Wittenberg have offered an excellent outline for more research.
In "We Live Again" she gives an enormously attractive performance in what is surely the most faithful of the three screen editions of Tolstoy's novel.Apart from its external loveliness, it is the chief merit of the production that it captures the theme of mystic socialism and Christ-like abasement which lay so close to the heart and mind of the later Tolstoy.
Callenbach was the first to admit that literary style was not the chief merit of the book, which he once described as "half-novel, half-tract".
It is believed to be one of the chief merits of the American system of written constitutional law that all the powers intrusted to the government, whether State or National, are divided into the three grand departments, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial.
(One of the chief merits of "What Hath God Wrought" is Howe's earnest effort, and great success, at chronicling changes of all sorts, from rates of childhood mortality to the gross national product, from the frequency of bathing to the firepower of cannons).
One of the chief merits of The Space In Between is that it portrays her outside of her art, as a complicated, curious person searching for answers—just like the rest of us.
Not the Wicked Witch of the Right who had her own motives for taking the country to war (Mary Wollstonecraft said that war was "a lucky turn up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place"), Curteis's Thatcher was quite unrecognisable to those who see her as responsible for all the ills of contemporary Britain.
But for Brandon, whose previous works include "Singer and the Sewing Machine: A Capitalist Romance" and "Automobile: How the Car Changed Life," the fascist dealings of L'Or?'s chief merit additional exploration because the Polish-born Rubinstein "was a Jew," and because, "in 1988, Schueller's business swallowed Rubinstein's".
Langermann emphasizes the teleological nature of astrology for Gersonides, its chief merit being its ability to provide "teleological explanations for the wide variety of stellar motions that are observed to take place" (Wars, Vol III, p. 506).
Thought's danger, as well as its chief merit, is its tendency to displace the world's noisy immediacy.
