This is most apparent in the elegant and highly stylised Air and Angels (1991) and The Service of Clouds, in which the prose has a lulling, rolling cadence, mimicking the dreamlike state of the emotionally withdrawn characters.
Filmmakers like the DuPlass brothers, Joe Swanberg, Lynne Shelton and Lena Dunham often have mute, tentative or socially withdrawn characters who can't make sense of the world (the film, Jeff Who Lives at Home, for example is typical -- a 30-year old slacker emerges from his shell by saving someone's life).
And he came away with this spare, withdrawn, ruthless character, three parts of the way to an existentialist paradigm.
In contrast with the charm of his earlier music, his works from this period are sometimes elusive and withdrawn in character, and at other times turbulent and impassioned.
Gaara's development from this state into a highly withdrawn, sadistic character was intended to induce sympathy for him from readers, as it was contrasted against Naruto's development into a cheerful troublemaker.
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He seemed more vulnerable to the ether, more tired, more withdrawn than the character who goes on railing for 596 pages of the novel".
Tom Hardy's younger brother is a far more withdrawn and volatile character, a man who's most at home doing combat in the ring.
Barker considered RZA's on-screen role to be too withdrawn to carry the central character role, but praised the supporting performances, especially those of Le's crime lord and Crowe, who Barker said "smirkingly goes for broke to an extent that viewers haven't seen from him since, well... ever".
