'Beneath the elusiveness and atmospheric charm is a wonderful firmness of character delineation.'
Far from there being any "poetry of con," there is not even purity of character delineation.
He also showed intense interest in a seldom-considered detail of character delineation: Food.
Like his fellow actors, he simply portrays a harried personality, more involved in a series of escapes from detection by the police than in character delineation.
I remember thinking her a shrewd and discriminating old lady, with a great gift for character delineation.
Along with critical acclaim for his singing, he received recognition for his acting and character delineation, and also, for his portrait sculpture and works on paper.
Admirers may point to melodic invention or character delineation or dramatic substance.
The actors, robbed of many ordinary tools of character delineation, are armed only with the language.
The stories feel simultaneously oblique and obvious, the "message" all the more blatant because McCann has whittled everything - language, setting, character delineation - down to dry bone.
I don't do fortune-telling-just character delineation.