11. Shue says she appreciated having the opportunity to plumb the depths of a complex, hard-luck character such as Sera: 12. Gish, superficially fragile and innocent, could plumb the depths of her steely soul and find the will to prevail. 13. _If resourceful actors were to plumb the depths of characters hardly sketched beneath the surface in Waller's elementary text. 14. In the early 1980s, he labored to the point of exhaustion to plumb the depths of the nuclear rivalry. 15. Both are responding to the same polls, which plumb the depths of minority discontent with the most incorrigible neighborhood schools. 16. "But she doesn't just plumb the depths of her character; she tries to inhabit the world of the drama ." 17. But keep in mind they're just small-time idiots who were well-positioned to plumb the depths of bad taste about Columbine. 18. And Joyce Carol Oates once again plumbs the depth of human misery in " Middle Age " ( Ecco ). 19. We've noted the marks on a Red Admiral's wings and tried to plumb the depths of color in a Red-Spotted Purple. 20. SAN FRANCISCO _ This is America, and you need a drilling rig to plumb the depths of our culture's bad taste.