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- As Hunt explains, it is mostly remembered " as a vehicle for a characteristic Balzacian whimsy ".
- His novels show a typical french narrative touch that the critics called " balzacian ", referring to his obsession with social recognition.
- Much of his output takes place in a small town in mid-Sweden, which is growing into a parallel universe in a Balzacian manner.
- Calloway is an elfin, bearded man with the wardrobe of a Balzacian boulevardier-- today's ensemble is black velvet pants, a mustard-yellow coat and lavender socks.
- The pay channel came into its own three years ago with " The Sopranos, " whose warmhearted but devastating vision of American barbarism has outclassed any Hollywood movie in its layered Balzacian sweep.
- Gald髎 also shows a Balzacian interest in technology and crafts, for example the lengthy descriptions of the ropery in " La desheredada " or the detailed accounts of how the heroine of " La de Bringas " ( 1884 ) embroiders her pictures out of hair.
- A love story as well as a typically Balzacian take on the shortcomings of so-called civilized man ( the French soldiers pass the time shooting the nose off a sphinx ), " Passion " is hardly a costume version of " That Darn Cat ."
- Several of the characters retreat in the end to Emilie's small seaside house in Normandy called " the Obade " ( another Balzacian reference, see " Ferragus " ), where she breaks down in front of Sarah, confessing her love for Colin ( who had been courting her earlier ) and Igor at the same time.
- "Gangs, " in which DiCaprio stars as a dour, furtive Irishman out to avenge his father's death in the Manhattan of the 1860s, is Scorsese's longtime dream project, a brutal allegory for the American experiment and a cinematic elaboration of the Balzacian truism that behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
- Gore Vidal described Singer as " one of the best, and certainly the sanest, interpreters of things European for American readers ", with a " Balzacian eye for human detail . " Mike Davis labelled Singer " the left's most brilliant arsonist ", with a talent for " set [ ting ] ablaze whole forests of desiccated cliches ".
- Once this book has intimately and precisely described de Kooning's glory days, with full attention to the many sea changes that shaped his work, it follows him downhill to " the transition to wise old irrelevance . " Increasing dementia, paintings of dubious provenance ( his assistants provided more and more " help " ) and legal wrangling over his estate : These were reasons why " his final years, when he was hardly there, became a Balzacian story of melancholy, gossip, money and decline ."
- Of the short list of interiors most often cited as having influenced the evolution of modern decoration, all have been extinguished : Jean-Michel Frank's bone-blond minimalist salon for Marie-Laure de Noailles ( done in 1928, sold in the 70s ); Nancy Lancaster's " butter yellow " drawing room ( born 1957, emptied 1982 ); Madeleine Castaing's opaline-colored Balzacian lair ( born circa 1945, revamped by the film director Ismail Merchant in 1996 ), and Pauline de Rothschild's poetically spare London apartment ( born 1969, sold circa 1988 ).