Sentence examples for extraordinary sensibility from inspiring English sources

Fantasy, which is by definition extraordinary, requires an extraordinary sensibility to realize it with any sense of substance.

There, as in Toback's third feature, "Exposed" (which played at Film Society of Lincoln Center last weekend), a refined musician of extraordinary sensibility is also a man making his way in a violent milieu.

Bley's music was never short of romance or drama, but those qualities generally came obliquely or in disguise, filtered through an extraordinary sensibility, at once refined and adventurous, the strategic use of silence indicating its reflective – although never passive – nature.

His work at the Film Society is exemplary; he has an extraordinary sensibility for the art of filmmaking; his taste in movies is as fine and wide-ranging as it gets, and his action and advocacy on behalf of work he loves has a mighty personal as well as intellectual authority.

They were in the stilted Byzantine style, but they seemed imbued with an extraordinary modern sensibility: the flat figures looked at you with rounded, lively eyes, as if they might say hello to you on the street.

Dealing with the themes of liberty, love, and death, Solomós embodied a profoundly Romantic sensibility in extraordinary fragments of lyrical intensity, which gave a new prestige to the Demotic language.

Nicholas F. Benton (nfbenton.com) was the co-founder of the Berkeley, Calif., Gay Liberation Front in 1970 and brought much of his experiences from those days to his new book, Extraordinary Hearts: Reclaiming Gay Sensibility's Central Role in the Progress of Civilization (Lethe Press 2013), a collection of 100 essays.

Then there was the type of fashionably obscure gesture that would only truly be appreciated by the Gallic sensibility – Tilda Swinton, more extraordinary than ever in draped midnight blue and sea green Haider Ackermann gown and Alexa Chung in vintage Balenciaga.