Sentence examples for subtle knack from inspiring English sources

A famous shot of bare-chested Paul Newman (1964) rendered calmly feminine courtesy of the fishnet shadow cast by a chain-link fence is one of the most gorgeous pictures ever of a man – and a naked demonstration of the actor's subtle knack for manifested interiority.

Though the scope of this puzzle is broad, Frederick's knack for subtle wordplay shines through in the way he gets mileage out a single phrase.

But the US director will hope to show off a hitherto unheralded knack for subtle political drama after entering talks to direct a new film about the fatal 2012 terror attacks on a US compound in Libya.

Ms Shriver, who has reviewed fiction for The Economist, has a knack for conveying subtle shifts in family dynamics, but this book feels uniquely personal, and is more poignant for it.Pandora Halfdanarson, the heroine, leads a staid life in Iowa, where ambitions are as modest as the plains are flat.

Somehow, on reaching the corner office, they lose the knack of reading subtle cues in others' behaviour: in a further experiment Mr Brion found that when a boss tells a joke to a subordinate, he loses his innate ability to distinguish between a real and fake smile.At the very least, bosses might improve their chances of staying on top by being aware of this bias.

As they've grown from big-tent destroyers into auteurist art-pop producers, the pair have demonstrated a knack for making surprisingly subtle aesthetic choices.

God gifted him with a keen and subtle intellect, an uncommon rhetorical skill, a knack for the dramatic gesture, a sharp wit and an outrageous sense of humor, all of which he used in the service of preaching.

Peggy Gou is a Korean-born, Berlin-based producer with a knack for earworm synths and subtle percussion.

Nightshift (Version) reminds me of a Spoon demo, bringing together Spoon's knack for effortless songs draped in subtle studio trickery.

After breaking into Jim McLean's improving side as a teenager in 1979-80, Milne was quick to make an impact on the right of the Terrors' attack, entertaining royally with his fearless audacity and a lethal finishing knack that could be savage or subtle at need.

Mr. Greenberg reiterates his knack for creative orchestration, including an increasingly subtle use of percussion.