character study
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He stars in Blue Moon - a character study of Lorenz Hart, a formerly successful songwriter struggling with the huge hit his former partner Richard Rogers is having with the musical Oklahoma!
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
Instead, it has all the hallmarks of both a black comedy comprising carefully crafted scenes and a deft character study made up of painstakingly applied warts-and-all detail.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
Instead, in “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” he offers a character study as biopic, riding a similar groove as his Oscar-winning 2009 directorial debut “Crazy Heart.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025
Ms. Mumenthaler has constructed her character study with subtly expressionistic imagination, deploying an enveloping, finely tuned sound design and finding a transporting musical motif in Holst’s “The Planets.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
The Delsarte laws of expression give us a key to character, study, and the laws that underlie all art.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.
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