Sentence examples for subtle master from inspiring English sources

Pacino's Manglehorn is a subtle master class in neutral shading, with none of the garish flashes that sometimes bedevil his work.

Much agreement confirmed him as the subtle master of non-gay vanity.

Chirnomula is a subtle master of spicing, revealing layers of flavor and heat (heat levels may be adjusted on request), and such delicacy is as evident in a dish of grilled vegetables tossed in fennel, fenugreek and nigella seed ($10) as it is in the plump potato-and-pea-stuffed samosa (above) pastry triangles ($6).

"I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous, I may almost say," he writes in "Walden," "as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both North and South.

The subjects of Bonnard's pictures are simple, but the means by which he rendered such familiar themes as a table laden with fruit or a sun-drenched landscape show that he was one of the most subtle masters of his day; he was particularly fascinated with tricks of perspective, as the Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne had been.

Ford is famously subtle, a devious master of unreliable narration, which is not something that TV versions, however good, can easily pull off.

It is a difficult and subtle formula to master: casino gaming companies spend millions refining slot machines to exert just the right psychological pull.

Some cryptographers crack the code of an enciphered document with the subtle dexterity of master lockpicks.