Sentence examples for intellectually subtle from inspiring English sources
The most serious charge is that they attack the most simplistic forms of religious belief and leave their most intellectually subtle versions untouched.
A more intellectually subtle, less manipulative movie would have had the Wiley team arguing at least once against African-American interests.
Each section of the "Commedia," which tracks Dante's wide-eyed tour through the three realms of the afterlife -- hell, purgatory and paradise -- provides thoughtful, morally rigorous investigations of sin, guilt and redemption; each section is deeply emotional yet intellectually subtle; and each bears witness to dazzling imaginative and artistic resources.
Its disappearance leaves us contemplating a relationship that is far more viscerally classical and intellectually far more subtle: the connection between continuity and change.
Writing in The New York Times, A. O. Scott called this film from David Cronenberg, based on a play by its screenwriter, Christopher Hampton, and drawn from a book by John Kerr, a "subtle and intellectually thrilling true story".
The subject of its analysis — a deceptively dry clinical term that is not out of place in reference to this subtle and intellectually thrilling true story — is the way unruly desires and emotions struggle with efforts to tame and confine them.
In truth he was a more subtle, sensitive, and intellectually ambitious artist than the myths that have accumulated around him might suggest.
Subtle, somber and intellectually dexterous, the movie, which featured Gary Oldman as le Carré's venerable MI6 master spy George Smiley, was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Oldman.
Like Margaret Thatcher, she was a conviction politician who radiated authority, but she was intellectually incapable of making the kind of subtle distinctions that are so crucial in the conduct of foreign policy.
Intellectually compatible?
Intellectually voracious.
