It produces great effects with delicate shifts in tone, like an oceangoing bird that travels a hundred miles between wing flaps.
This dream of a movie is set in such a place; with its delicate shifts of tone, it could be a fairy tale by Faulkner.
Reviewing a 1986 performance for The New York Times, Jon Pareles wrote that Ms. Benjamin "treated the songs as languorous phrases floating above the beat, with carefully turned glides and curves and delicate shifts of timbre — a graceful, somber, pared-down approach".
And then, gradually, she even transcends it -- again as Ms. Gish did -- by acting, filling in the sketchy outlines of her character with nothing but delicate shifts of expression in her big brown eyes.
But as someone who is trained to follow the most delicate shifts of a piece's sound and sense, it's the big, overall sonic wash of these kinds of concerts that I always find unsettling (and which reminds me to bring earplugs).
'GEORGE WASHINGThereThere's simply nothing else like this movie in this year or any year; it's a dream of a picture, with delicate shifts of tone and the sure, steady hand of a writer-director -- in this case, the first-time feature filmmaker David Gordon Green -- who trusts his actors.
The delicate shifts in the groundwater systems, which cause the changes in the recharge and discharge, clearly show the need for hydrological modelling.
D. W. Griffith famously invented the closeup for Lillian Gish, whose delicate expressions shifted with exquisite rapidity from frame to frame.
Her sleeping state, her dozing state, and her waking state now had such delicate and shifting boundaries that it was hard to distinguish among them.
From the delicate tonal shifts and syrupy vocal ooze of minipops 67 (source field mix) to the wistful, cloudy synths that swirl beneath the pneumatic junglist breaks of PAPAT4 (pineal mix), Syro feels designed to delight and beguile".
