Sentence examples for subtle melancholy from inspiring English sources

Her clear, calm voice is one of serene mystery and subtle melancholy: cool but never detached.

This autumn she was extraordinarily subtle – melancholy and obsessive – in James Graham's The Angry Brigade at Plymouth.

"Adrift" ("Choi Voi"), which the Museum of Modern Art is showing as part of its touring exhibition, Global Lens 2010, is a subtle, melancholy exploration of erotic angst and uncomfortable awakening.

THE creepiness in a David Lynch film comes as much from the soundtrack as from the Surrealistic images: the subtle melancholy of Laura Palmer's theme in "Twin Peaks," Isabella Rossellini's come-hither rendition of the title song in "Blue Velvet".

Numerous De la Mare poems are simple and delightful nonsense: "Three jolly farmers / Once bet a pound / Each dance the others would / Off the ground", but many are tinged with subtle melancholy, the effect of a sensitivity attuned to high-pitched notes of grief even at times of contentment.

Boasting stunning cinematography from Gregg Toland, who'd go on to collaborate with Orson Welles on "Citizen Kane", Ford's film generates tension mixed with a subtle melancholy.

Ash, meanwhile, is nothing but elephant-coloured skeleton and gnarled twig-ends, and, as the trees rise, the topmost branches tend to droop, giving to them a subtle air of melancholy.

While her companion is struck by the banality of the bombs' names — Fat Man, Little Boy — she remarks that they could never have been anything but benign: "What would you have named them, then?" It is this subtle mixture of melancholy and world-­historical resignation that gives Skibsrud's collection its potency.

Subtle, tinged with the melancholy of modest, materially constricted lives, Mr. Upadhyay's stories bring us into contact with a world that is somehow both very far away and very familiar.

Jerwood Space, SE1, Wed to 26 Apr SS The leading Chinese painter Zhang Enli's meditations on the transition from old to new China are subtle, personal and muddily melancholy.

Bassey's tendency to wring the juice out of everything she sings meant Hawley's delicate After the Rain crumpled under her delivery, but she turned in a surprisingly subtle version of Bradfield's melancholy The Girl From Tiger Bay.