Sentence examples for exquisite passages from inspiring English sources

Along the way, at its best, it alchemises "a thoroughly lonesome feeling" into some exquisite passages of prose.

But there were exquisite passages that revealed a quieter, more nuanced and emotional side of his work.

But there were also long, exquisite passages when the songs simply defied gravity, undulating mysteriously as Bjork sought rapture.

And there were the broken and the beautiful, who produced exquisite passages of play but couldn't keep their heads together: Kirk Stevens, a Canadian cocaine addict who played in a white suit; Alex (the Hurricane) Higgins, who died, furious and alcoholic, of throat cancer, in 2010; and Jimmy (the Whirlwind) White, who reached six world finals and lost them all.

Then Gabriel and Gretta's exchange in their hotel room, the muted drama of his disappointed ardor, her piercingly sad revelation of a boy who once loved her and died, and at last, Gabriel's final, drowsy, shamed reflections on his own lovelessness, and on mortality, prompted by memories of the evening's merrymaking — these are among the most exquisite passages of prose fiction in the entire canon.

Overlaying the melancholy, meanwhile - so delicate as to be near-invisible - are passages of exquisite, minimal dance.

The force and gusto of Stead's prose do not prevent her from writing descriptive passages of exquisite beauty.

There are also passages of exquisite trompe l'oeil, like the pocked and chipped floorboards of the studio, in dark reds and browns, which are based on those in the Brooklyn room where the triptych was completed.

We, who are thankfully above such things, pressing our scented handkerchiefs to the nasal passages of exquisite good taste, can take comfort in the polar separation of elite and mass culture in all their manifestations.

It's a strikingly good orchestra, with a fine string section that shone in the program's surging love themes, and soloists who excel in the piano concerto's Andante and in this piece render the solo clarinet passage an exquisite expression of lost purity.

It's hard to overestimate the riskiness of these passages, their courage and their exquisite sensuality.