Sentence examples for subtle imagination from inspiring English sources

At each dramatic moment, he shifts the sound with subtle imagination, as when, in Act 1, Jocasta (Susan Bickley) has her agonised solo begging Oedipus not to explore his past: "May you never know who you are".

This is the house of Atreus – that nice family who had fratricide, matricide and any other cide besides in their DNA – as refined by the subtle imagination of Hugo von Hofmannshthal, whose libretto added layers of psychology and richness to Sophocles's tragedy and gave Strauss one of his best texts.

These are qualities one wants to retain as a society, and it is a credit to Rockwell's subtle, story-weaving imagination that he captured the values we celebrate on Independence Day without ever having done a painting of American flags waving from porches or July skies bursting with fireworks.

The role of architecture in inflaming Teller's feverish imagination is subtle.

This is a writerly detail, the kind that lingers, that impresses itself on the imagination, more subtle and yet more tenacious than any crafted moral.

But in recent years he has developed into a choreographer who knows how to recreate onstage the complicated, curious workings of his imagination in subtle dramatic detail.

I would add only that the creative output of the guards at Abu Ghraib prison are the digital descendant, if somewhat less artful and subtle, of the same imagination playing the same drama.

Between the Soler and the Albéniz, Mr. Osorio played a vibrant, tempestuous account of Beethoven's Sonata No. 30 (Op. 109), with a magnificently cathartic finale, and a group of Debussy's Preludes that drew on Mr. Osorio's considerable imagination for subtle timbres and vivid characterization.

Big business sponsorship narrows the spectrum of human imagination in many subtle ways.

"This reflects the dichotomy between the fake and the real... and our subtle feelings between senses and imagination... which in turn is a reflection of my feeling towards the world nowadays," he says. . Learn more about Ji Zhou on his gallery page.

Although the show had no direct agenda, it seemed to open imaginations and pose subtle but important questions.