Sentence examples for a subtle comment from inspiring English sources

There is even a Shore that seems to be a subtle comment on Hopper: sad light on lonely buildings.

For some reason (a subtle comment on the importance of the notes in annual reports?), they contain several of the most persuasive arguments in the book.

Then there's Backpack, which secretes a subtle comment on the "ownership" of so-called negative psychological syndromes into a quirkily infectious pop context that could almost be a novelty hit and is accompanied by a film wherein our heroine - we really, really should warn you - channels the spirit of the young Mia Farrow, only lightly depraved.

Literary critic Anthony W. Lee notes in his essay "Dryden's Cinyras and Myrrha" that this translation, along with several others, can be interpreted as a subtle comment on the political scene of the late seventeenth-century England.

(Why does he put the individually wrapped rolls of Scott toilet paper on top of the ATM? Is it coincidence, or is he making a subtle comment about throwing money down the toilet?).

The project not only humanizes those it picks up, but creates a haunting, ambient theatrical narrative around urban living, a subtle comment on our passive relationship with real-time news.

Most of the time, political discourse in the workplace is harmless--a subtle comment here about Newt Gingrich, a snort or snicker there about President Clinton.

The text is often where the joke comes in — I try to make a humorous but subtle comment about what I am seeing.

US critics have claimed that her broad, brash sketches house a subtle feminist comment, but Schumer doesn't seem keen to discuss this aspect of her comedy; all she'll say on the topic is the rather flat "I've always thought men and women are equal so I'm sure that the jokes reflect that".

Lessing, for whom the pressure at Sydney was heightened by a none-too-subtle comment from a British Olympic Association committee member about what colour medal they wanted, was in the best shape of his career on the start line, and insists that if he had his time again he would race exactly the same race.

The Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, better than Rose, produced a wonderful drawing around 1931 depicting Stein with an artist's canvas where the head should be, a not-so-subtle comment on her use of other people to bolster her reputation.