Spare, elegantly written and scrupulously free of pomposity, it's hardly recognizable as the work of the man on the radio.
As the writer of a recent gay social biography of E. M. Forster, I was disappointed to read Deborah Solomon's dismissive review of R. Tripp Evans's beautifully written and scrupulously researched life of the painter Grant Wood ("Gothic American," Oct. 31).
Still, the notes, concisely written, are scrupulously fair about noting the views of other editors, they offer clear, explanations of difficult passages, they are helpful on language, and the many excellent comments on theatrical options will be of value to actors.
Later in life he kept the usual poet's habits, shut up by himself, writing in scrupulously neat longhand with no deletions.
His crisply written, empathetic biography scrupulously documents Barber's life and illuminates the experiences of black Britons in the 18th century.
His beautifully written, meticulously plotted, scrupulously imagined stories have the effect, for all of their depictions of savage behavior, of surrounding the reader with a civilized mode of being.
Beautifully written, meticulously plotted, scrupulously imagined stories that are impeccably civil in themselves no matter how shocking the action; like Doctorow's novels, they affirm the American theme of self-creation, of the individual's capacity to make for himself an original life to replace the one offered by convention, even though this often requires a certain amount of lawbreaking.
A thorough codicological and palaeographical description of the codex 490 was scrupulously written by Schiaparelli [13], whose work was updated by Pomaro [14].
And so, JohnsonGrove said, a ballot measure scrupulously written to avoid partisanship has become just another example of it.
