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
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
Together, the two craft a self-aware, though no less banal, character study, examining the life of an artist who’s too famous to get off the ride — or perhaps, just too damn charming.
From Salon • Oct. 2, 2025
He was a very fascinating person,—purely as a character study, of course, nothing more.
From The Wall Between by Bassett, Sara Ware
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