Sentence examples for disturbing intelligent from inspiring English sources

While this novel goes partway to being a disturbing, intelligent vision of colonial tectonics, it remains an unrealised piece of fiction.

A disturbing, intelligent and, at times, genuinely moving story, The Beautiful Dead is written with subtlety and an impressive lightness of touch.

Her fourth novel, Rubbernecker, is intriguing, disturbing and intelligent.

Her fourth novel, Rubbernecker, is intriguing, disturbing and intelligent.

Anyone who goes to the Globe to see Shakespeare's late romance will emerge howling "Where are the Golden Lads and Girls?" Go for what this says it is – a play called Imogen – and you will hear a taut, disturbing and intelligent melodrama, shot through with some of Shakespeare's most neglected beauties: "melted from the smallness of a gnat to air".

While Dalí painted portraits of the rich and eventually returned to Franco's Spain to create a megalomaniac museum of himself and paint kitsch religious art, Buñuel, based in Mexico, made in his later years a string of radical, disturbing and intelligent films.

Alden's staging is far more intelligent, disturbing and nonspecific.

The Orphanage is a disturbing, and yet intelligent and compassionate dramatisation of loss and bereavement: in some ways, it is a wish-fulfilment fantasy, a way of following the departed into the void so that they can be made to live again, and that the intolerable enigma of their death can be solved.

In common with Burn, whose outstanding Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son provided forensic biographical details and compelling psychological insights into Sutcliffe's crimes, Blacklock has fashioned an intelligent, disturbing slice of noir, which falls into no particular category – rather like his subject.

Meanwhile, lying speechless and motionless in the neurological ward, Sam Galen believes that he has witnessed a doctor murdering the man in the next bed but is unable to tell anybody about it... There's a third, Roald Dahl-esque storyline involving a lazy and self-centred nurse, and Bauer draws all three strands together at the end for an intelligent, disturbing read.

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