closely/well observed
idiom
: very realistic
The story is a closely/well observed portrait of the city.
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White Lotus has always been a work made up of closely observed character study (please see this season’s three quietly warring white women who have been friends since childhood).
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Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 10 Mar. 2025
Adventure, travel, history, literary criticism, all deeply felt and closely observed—a Macfarlane book blends all this together with a maximalist love for language and the keen ethical proposition that the world is worth paying attention to.
—Daegan Miller
june 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
Black-and-white drawings dominate the show’s first half, in which closely observed, acutely detailed faces emerge out of the blank void of colorless sheets of paper.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
As a reporter for and later editor-in-chief/publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Bruce Dold closely observed Bensinger through the decades.
—Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
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Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 10 Mar. 2025
Adventure, travel, history, literary criticism, all deeply felt and closely observed—a Macfarlane book blends all this together with a maximalist love for language and the keen ethical proposition that the world is worth paying attention to.
—Daegan Miller
june 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
Black-and-white drawings dominate the show’s first half, in which closely observed, acutely detailed faces emerge out of the blank void of colorless sheets of paper.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
As a reporter for and later editor-in-chief/publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Bruce Dold closely observed Bensinger through the decades.
—Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Closely/well observed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/closely%2Fwell%20observed. Accessed 30 Aug. 2025.
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