Sentence examples for subtle genius from inspiring English sources

The subway still exists, and the people who operate it still bring a kind of subtle genius to their work.

Sassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolutionized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1437 1444.

If Giggs was all about explosive solo runs in his early days, the latter stages of his career have been more about conjuring moments of subtle genius.

The subtle genius of HGTV's empire is its mastery of "endemic advertising": Building an alluring habitat for an advertiser's most-sought market, and letting that audience come to them.

9) Manchester United 1-2 Chelsea, 26 January 2005 If Giggs was all about explosive solo runs in his early days, the latter stages of his career have been more about conjuring moments of subtle genius.

The excitement of seeing an opera rarely performed in western opera houses is enhanced by the participation of Russia's leading theatre director, Lev Dodin, the guiding force of the Maly Theatre in St Petersburg, aided by two of his regular collaborators, David Borovsky, a much admired stage designer, and Chloe Obolensky, a subtle genius of costume design.

From subtle to "genius" suggestions in the collections of Julien Macdonald, Helmut Lang and Nicolas Ghesquière for Balenciaga to more overt displays in skirts, tops and thongs by John Galliano for Christian Dior, it is latex here, latex there, S&M lite everywhere.

As he always was in prose, Updike was subtle, nuanced, a genius in these manifestations of his apparent fear and unease.

Botticelli's Dante drawings, portraits and one of his depictions of Venus will bring his seductive, subtle and strange genius head to head with his modern imitators.

The open, golden space into which Lynne Ramsay's young protagonist runs in the final scene of Ratcatcher had a subtle wink to the genius of Terrence Malick's Badlands and his manipulation of nature as a window of thought.

The socio-political statements in the film, of a child from a Middle-Eastern background not being recognized for his genius, were subtle and in the subtext of a simple yet entertaining coming of age story.