Mr. Towner and Mr. Fresu revisited most of the songs from "Chiaroscuro," including the title track, with its delicate intimation of Brazilian choro rhythm.
It is vital to the movie's delicate, comic tone that intimations of the predatory, duplicitous aspects of David's character do not emerge too suddenly.
You don't need to be a baseball fan to fall under this novel's spell, but "The Art of Fielding" possesses all the pleasures that an aficionado cherishes in a great, classic game: odd and strangely satisfying symmetries, unforeseen swerves of fortune, and intimations of the delicate balance between individual will and destiny that play out on the field.
There are intimations of cosmic experiences in Elliot Hundley's "Medea's Craft," a delicate white-on-white assemblage that brings to mind Joseph Cornell and Greg Colson, and Greg Smith's fastidious painting of a skeleton urinating in a lake, which suffers from an overreliance on older art in both subject and technique.
Set in fantastic never-never lands or more familiar environments twisted radically out of kilter, Firbank's fiction advertises a wit so delicate that it can scarcely be identified, borne forward by scraps of rococo dialogue, the whole invariably undercut with intimations of deep unease, often extending to outright tragedy.
But what gives this delicate, decorous movie its distinctive throb of melancholy sensuality is less the humdrum possibility of adultery than the intimation of a three-way entanglement involving the man, the woman and Cairo.
"What gives this delicate, decorous movie its distinctive throb of melancholy sensuality is less the humdrum possibility of adultery than the intimation of a three-way entanglement involving the man, the woman and Cairo," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
"What gives this delicate, decorous movie its distinctive throb of melancholy sensuality is less the humdrum possibility of adultery than the intimation of a three-way entanglement involving the man, the woman and Cairo," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
Intimations of mortality.
Bloody violence, intimations of depravity.
Two delicate, ribbonlike wall pieces, on which Ms. Mirra has typed entries from the index of a book on deer hunting, provide the exhibition with intimations of mortality, the handling of guns and the butchering of dead animals.
