Sentence examples for intimate subject from inspiring English sources

It was simple, undramatic, and direct well suited to his intimate subject matter.

In that novel, which alternates between a village and an urban hospital, Ha Jin explores an intimate subject with a surgeon's combination of detachment and depth.

He was also the leading homebody among modern masters, a nervous Parisian mama's boy whose intimate subject matter and love of décor extoll the bourgeois nest.

The progression represents Mr. Katz's process, the way he eventually came to take an intimate subject and gave it wide screen, Hollywood-style splash.

They are all around you, but maybe such an intimate subject as their inability to get health insurance has never come up in conversation.

I felt I had learned new ways of approaching cinema in "Carlos," and I wanted to try them out with a more intimate subject matter.

Frankness on intimate subjects seems to be a credo of both her life and her work.

He is cautious on intimate subjects, happier discussing the classic nerd topics of his peers: Kubrick movies, nineties hip-hop, the inadvertent comic genius that is Kanye West.

Meanwhile, Hirsch and the Columbia sociologist Shamus Khan prepared a team of ethnographers — current and recent grad students, who were close to their subjects in age — to talk with undergraduates about intimate subjects.

The German photographer, now in his fifties, has developed an incisive and sensitive ability to show different forms of grandeur, with his detailed, large-format photographs of space stations, oil rigs, churches and jungles, as well as more intimate subjects – artworks, families, nondescript city streets.

Not one of my friends buys into my probing, resisting my gentle nudges toward more intimate subjects, preferring to focus on relating their grandchildren's recent escapades instead.