Not every ballet needs this level of character analysis: "Don Q" is one crowd-pleasing moment of virtuosity after another.

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Among the many, he calls out a few disguises that gossip often takes: character analysis, the modern sin, and, truest of all, the great achievement of humanity.

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If there is optical character recognition software, it can do deep analysis of scanned documents, too.

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Some believe graphology - the study of handwriting - can help in the analysis of a person's character.

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