Sentence examples for grave subjects from inspiring English sources

With his open-secret sexiness, his confident collage effects and his grave subjects, Powell could reach far beyond the segmented audiences most poets now expect: poems like his can open up new fields, where fascinated readers might roam or graze.

In depicting grave subjects with comic artifice, Lee makes "Chi-Raq" this year's "The Wolf of Wall Street"—a work of such freedom and fury that it runs the risk of moralizing misinterpretation.

He seemed determined to maintain a jocular demeanor even about grave subjects, smiling and laughing for a moment before answering a question about a 4-month-old Palestinian baby killed by Israeli fire this week.

In depicting grave subjects with comic artifice, Lee makes "Chi-Raq" this year's "The Wolf of Wall Street" — a work of such freedom and fury that it runs the risk of moralizing misinterpretation.

The incongruity of offhand tone and grave subject matter is part of a fairly consistent worldview.

The problem is not that Ms. Scafaria "takes her grave subject too lightly," he said.

Indeed, the solemnity of this brooding rumination perfectly matches its grave subject.

But this year Battle asked him to create a long piece on a grave subject, and he rose to the occasion.