Sentence examples for subtle construction from inspiring English sources

If not for its subtle construction, The Woman Destroyed would be a classic novel of love's labors lost.

Bars, fences and other obstructions recur in these early pictures, contributing to the subtle construction of the compositions, but also keeping everything at a distance.

"Elements," however, suggests that Mozart's slow movement stimulates him to his most subtle construction, and that otherwise he's content to make flimsy, audience-oriented little comedies dominated more by upper-body gesture and pat timing than by lower-body rhythm.

Crucial to their argument is a subtle construction called pseudo-stratification.

It would be a disservice to the novel's intricate and subtle construction to give even a cursory summation of its unfolding events.

As ever, the designer brought a discomforting sense of a dark underbelly to his apparently simple clothes — in fact, carefully worked to make unexpected fabrics, weird combinations and subtle constructions all look deceptively simple.

However, Lewis (1986, §1.5) argues that, even if the above analysis fails for certain purposes, it does not follow that intensions cannot be analyzed in terms of possible worlds, but only that more subtle constructions might be required.

Lloyd Goodrich (1897 1987) believed the work was "Eakins' most masterful use of the nude", with the solidly conceived figures perfectly integrated into the landscape, an image of subtle tonal construction and one of the artist's "richest pieces of painting".

The premise of Kafka's story and its subtle narrative constructions aren't necessarily obvious material for a dance.

Its artistry is in the pathways the building makes through its subtly different galleries, in which you are repeatedly returned to views of the surrounding city, and in a suggestion (again subtle) that the construction is of planks and boards, as if the concrete were petrified wood.

The subtle differences in point construction are learned from playing thousands of matches over a career.