Sentence examples for subtle observation from inspiring English sources

Stephen Beresford's screenplay combines broad comedy with subtle observation.

Vernet's shipwrecks, sunsets, and conflagrations reveal an unusually subtle observation of light and atmosphere.

The Tarnished Angels is a polished psychological melodrama, meticulous in its subtle observation, but only the planes involved in the dangerous flying scenes are strictly of the 1930s.

A distanced and subtle observation of young runners in the Ethiopian highland town of Bekoji, famed for producing some of the world's greatest distance athletes, including Tirunesh Dibaba, Kenenisa Bekele and Derartu Tulu.

The story is set in the future, in 1980, on an imaginary antipodean island called Britannula, and therefore lacks the subtle observation of a recognisable social world for which Trollope's fiction is cherished.

No reader can help but be amused and disturbed by this passage, which is representative of O'Connor's subtle observation of a world that was not her own, but which informed every inch of the one she inhabited.

The winning poem, by Patricia McCarthy, which comes at its subject, the Great War, in a tender, oblique fashion, convinced us with its quiet technique and subtle observations.

In La voz a ti debida (1934; "The Voice Inspired by You"; Eng. trans. Truth of Two and Other Poems), profoundly personal love experiences inspire subtle observations on the solidity of external reality and the fleeting world of subjective perception.

The plot is a not-so-subtle observation of the contemporary art market, which Gréaud laments as being driven by high-net-worth individuals who are becoming at once collectors, producers and gallerists.

There was love and sex aplenty, but there were also subtler observations — the pettiness of a man who will not take his poor cousin to the hospital, the curiosity of a woman about her husband's mistress, and the tightening of a grandmother's hand around a child's, as the summer vacation comes to an end in a sleepy railway station.

Chadha, as she has shown in her previous pictures - Bhaji on the Beach, What's Cooking?, Bend It Like Beckham - is a crowd-pleaser, and the chief characteristics of her new film are populist cheek and cosmopolitan chic rather than subtle social observation.