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Of the new cast additions, only Ayoade is doing anything funny, but Xeni’s pretentious banter could have used a writerly punch-up from somebody like Richard Ayoade.
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
His cheerful admission of this writerly tactic presages not only the friendly tone of the entire book but also one of its shortcomings.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
His great achievement, and Moses’s and Neugebauer’s, lies in the fact that such an effusion — hardly the only one in The Ally — feels not only truthful but real, earned and human, an expression not of writerly grandiosity but of character need.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
Ruth, as a character, alternates frustratingly between writerly perceptiveness and more stereotyped neuroses.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
His cheerful admission of this writerly tactic presages not only the friendly tone of the entire book but also one of its shortcomings.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
His great achievement, and Moses’s and Neugebauer’s, lies in the fact that such an effusion — hardly the only one in The Ally — feels not only truthful but real, earned and human, an expression not of writerly grandiosity but of character need.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024
Ruth, as a character, alternates frustratingly between writerly perceptiveness and more stereotyped neuroses.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024
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“Writerly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/writerly. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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