Sentence examples for formal intricacy from inspiring English sources

But many artfully patterned plotless sequences had emotional immediacy as well as formal intricacy.

The choreography lacked formal intricacy and offered no insights into character or behavior.

She was so struck by its haunting, formal intricacy that she moved on to other fruits and vegetables, then to subjects as minute as a single cell.

The formal intricacy is, however, not divorced from the emotion of the moment, and when form and content unite, Ms. Brown triumphs.

The formal intricacy of Mr. Twitchell's recent work, with its painstaking use of repetition and detail, finds echoes elsewhere: in Seong Chun's sculptures crocheted from text-covered strips of paper, in Valeska Soares's bundles of thorny branches swathed in cotton batting and in Sarah Sosnowy's mural-size, circles-within-circles mandala formed from dozens of smaller paintings.

We relished the formal inventiveness and stylistic verve of David Szalay's All That Man Is – a composite portrait of modern masculinity and the foibles of contemporary Europe – and were in awe of the expansive historical span and formal intricacy of Madeleine Thien's Do Not Say We Have Nothing.

With its formal intricacies of music, magic and comedy, there's a masque-like quality to Shakespeare's late play that offers seductive possibilities for choreographers.

Meanwhile, traditional bourgeois genres are kicked to the margins, their demographics undesirable, their life styles uncool, their formal intricacies ill suited to the transmission networks of the digital age.

There were concept albums; classical melodies with a rock beat; rock song cycles; rock operas; album-length suites; songs based on books or legends; rock that prided itself on odd time signatures and formal intricacies, or on the poetry of its lyrics.

It has been argued that, because the main aim of pornographers is to sexually arouse the audience, they are forced to include as many sexually explicit scenes as possible, leaving precious little room for plot development or formal intricacies (Steiner 1975).

Art is necessarily multi-layered, it is argued, whereas pornography is one-dimensional; it has only one job to do and therefore lacks the formal and structural intricacy, the cognitive complexity, and interpretive openness of art (see, for example, Webb 1975: 6; Mahon 2005: 14; Wallace et al. 2007: 15).