Mr. Lees has drawn an entertaining dual portrait that slyly manages to marry mild caricature and psychological intricacy.

Mr. Locke, who was a subject of Tracy Kidder's best seller "House" (Houghton Mifflin, 1985), understands not just the endless intricacies of building, but the psychological intricacies as well.

"Play Without Words" does not strive for the psychological intricacy and intensity of the movie.

Eustis, who already knew the play, noticed that it took on a startling psychological intricacy when it was read aloud.

Her discoveries of hidden religious symbolism and psychological intricacy in his "strange, coded" work, while not always fully elaborated or entirely convincing, are enormously provocative.

The film, in Russian and English with subtitles where not in English, switches from black and white to color as it depicts the psychological intricacy of a woman's life.

The characterizations in "Pericles" are devoid of psychological intricacy; the play's power is in its wide-angled view of the vagaries of life, not in sharply focused exploration of any individual experience of it.

Kurt Rhoads (Antony) and Nance Williamson (Cleopatra) do not answer that question because it is the psychological intricacy of their performances that brings it up in the first place.

Mr. Jackman's voice may not have the operatic richness of Ms. McDonald's, but it's a clean and deeply expressive instrument that brought an almost Shakespearean psychological intricacy to Billy's "Soliloquy."

Ms. Wilson has a dark, gravelly contralto of startling dramatic intensity that is particularly well-suited to Sondheim's psychological intricacies.