The tale is adapted from a novel by Graham Greene, and we are in wartime England, but we might as well be in Kafka's Prague, or in the Germany that the film's director, Fritz Lang, had left ten years before and the kindred shadows of which he probed in works like "M".
A Yale Law School graduate and former prosecutor, the senator went head to head with the nominee through several rounds of questioning, hours of mesmerizing constitutional debate in which he probed for any sign of flexibility in Judge Bork's view that the entire course of modern constitutional law was profoundly mistaken.
"This is the war on women here," Wehby told radio host Lars Larson at the end of an interview in which he probed the incidents with her ex-husband and ex-boyfriend.
Mazursky applies a light and graceful touch to matters of intimate agony, which he probes in insightfully crafted dialogue scenes with Erica's three best friends (Kelly Bishop, Patricia Quinn, and Linda Miller), her daughter, Patti Lisa Lucass), and her therapist (Penelope Russianoff).
Scenes in which Cave partakes in on-camera interviews, in which he is gently probed for his thoughts on topics as serious as the death of his father and his greatest fears (losing his memory and uncontrollable weather) could have been filmed on a PR junket.
From what can be reconstructed from his personal career along with the implications of his subsequent historical thought, it is possible to mark an intellectual turning point in his life after which he began to probe deeper into the nature of the Roman Empire.
Just a couple of points earlier he had projected another of his elegantly probing forehands which he, the line-judge and many of the crowd thought was in.
The next day, in an interview with NBC News's Lester Holt, Trump admitted that he had fired Comey because he was unhappy with the Russia probe, which he said was "a made-up story".
Here, for the first time, Lilly had the chance to study the brains of live dolphins, mapping their cerebral cortex using fine probes, which he'd first developed for his work on the brains of rhesus monkeys.
Instead, he wields a foot-long flashlight with a high-intensity halogen bulb and an awl with which he pushes, punches and probes to check the condition of floors, walls and ceilings.
Her parents eventually took her to Cooper, who achieved significant relief of her symptoms with an experimental operation in which he used a cryogenic probe to create lesions deep in her brain.
