Sublime

comely,

“a no-nonsense-mustache,”

a lean yellowish man whose fixed smile nevertheless has the impermanent quality of something stamped into uncooperative material,

Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel

Through it all, however, Griffith seemed totally at ease, even serene. Working as always without a script, he was developing his concept in rehearsal, trying out new ideas and new business, molding actors and scenes like a sculptor working his clay.

raconteur?