Sentence examples for delicate portrayal from inspiring English sources

Yet there was also his tactful, delicate portrayal of the English tutor in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987).

It left me wondering whether the article was a skillfully delicate portrayal of human blindness or evidence of the writer's own unseeing eye.

Mr. Masud's best-known film was "The Clay Bird," which won an International Critics' award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival for its "authentic, moving and delicate portrayal of a country struggling for its democratic rights".

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukHISHAM MATAR'S Man Booker- shortlisted debut, "In the Country of Men" (2006), was a delicate portrayal of a nine-year-old boy growing up in 1970s Libya, in the shadow of "the Guide".

Of particular note are several prints he made on a trip to Venice, including the misty gray "Nocturne" and "The Dyer," a delicate portrayal of fabric workers wringing out large swaths of cloth.

Lerner manages to make a potentially self-indulgent story a delicate portrayal of youthful idealism.

In "Thjodolf," a stoic, self-sacrificing young wife named Helene adopts a baby only to invite devastating loss and betrayal; delicate character portrayal combines here with expert heartstring-pulling worthy of an old movie tear-jerker.

It's rich and earthily funny in its depiction of Gorbals in the 1960s, and delicate in its portrayal of the relationship between a grandson and his grandfather, and the desire we all have to be seen as special: the hero or heroine of our own story.

His character is often described as bisexual, although Bobby is far more ambiguous, the film more delicate in its portrayals.

My heart says Colin Firth, who, after being typecast as Mr Darcy, proved that he's more than a one-trick-pony with a delicate, nuanced and brilliantly layered portrayal of bereavement that carried Tom Ford's stylish film, A Single Man.

A similarly delicate admixture infuses Mr. Vázquez's portrayal of the health-food-pushing, revenge-ready Julio, who uses "Van Damme " as a verb.