Sentence examples for a subtle portrait from inspiring English sources

What emerges is a subtle portrait of a society in the throes of rapid social transformation, still haunted by the cruelties of its feudal past.

Instead of the usual caricatures - bullying, zits, chalk dust, inkwells and farting - there's a subtle portrait of a complex community with its unwritten codes of honour and truth.

Jill Sigman, a choreographer herself and a 15-year student of Ms. Cohen's, is terrific in a subtle portrait of the blobby, resistant adolescent of every mother's nightmare.

Yet he has given us a subtle portrait of Latin America during the last quarter of the 20th century — a period of death squads, exile, "disappeared" citizens and state-sponsored terror.

Like Good Night, and Good Luck, George Clooney's study of Ed Murrow, it creates a subtle portrait of a public figure by concentrating on a crucial moral crisis in his professional life and the ethical responsibilities it involved.

Mr Seth follows them from early 20th-century India to Germany and finally to England where, displaced from the cultures of their respective homelands, they come to embrace a third one together, that of the British middle class.Out of this emerges a subtle portrait of the complexities of a long companionship based on confidences rather than mutual confidence.

But Miéville's characters are deftly sketched, and his narrator-protagonist, Avice, is a subtler portrait than she seems at first.

Instead we have a complex, subtle portrait of a high-powered New York clan trying to come to grips with one another.

Gandolfini and Falco together paint a wonderfully subtle portrait of a long marriage; they are inseparable partners and also, to some extent, enemies.

Ali paints a terrifically subtle portrait of how such a marriage is threatened in a culture in which a woman is encouraged to grow beyond it, how he and Nazneen build a strange relationship of simultaneous closeness and apartness, how they hurt one another and also depend on one another.

And as the action develops and the excitement builds, we realise that we are being presented at the same time with a very subtle portrait of the guilts and griefs – and the attractions and revulsions that flow from these things – that form the foundation of this and many other father-son relationships.