character-study

Robert Crais, too, is a good mixture of plot, action and character-study.

Libraries Maxine 2009

Another benefit: the job provides an avenue for character-study work.

Who You Gonna Call? For Bedbugs, an Out-of-Work Actor Melanie Grayce West 2010

The Remains of Day is an excellent character-study, but I suspect Stevens is not “human” enough a character to sustain a study at such length.

Readings & Watchings 6 « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010

It is a character-study of a highly intelligent man who believes himself to be rational and humane and impartially sifting the evidence -- but actually pushes a vicious vision antithetical to both democracy and environmental sanity.

Johann Hari: The Soft-Voiced Authoritarianism of Fareed Zakaria 2009

In an HBO show you can get away with a character-study show like the recent boxing episode, where the main relationship is ugly and wrong (between Lee and Kara) and gets no real resolution except that it will continue to be wrong and ugly.

BSG Backlash? 2007

One of his many notable projects was “Route 66”, and at times this movie reminded me a little of the style of “Route 66” or some similar character-study episodic TV drama show of that era.

"5 Against the House" - 1955 Jacqueline T Lynch 2009

Some of my favorite character-study books are Richard Ford's books about Frank Bascombe.

HH Com 387 Miss Snark 2006

Throughout the story abounds in character-study of a kind that, while building up the figure with a thousand details, will add suddenly some vivid touch that brings the whole wonderfully and unforgettably to life.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917 Various

This last, a character-study of very moving and sympathetic realism, suffers a little from a defect inherent in one of Mr. MARSHALL'S best qualities, his gift for absolutely natural dialogue.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25 Various

These editorials recalled the Blaine episode, and although not so steeped in bitterness, as a character-study they did not differ from the prototype.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander