Sentence examples for subtle parallel from inspiring English sources

And there's a subtle parallel between Cézanne's mountain and the targets, maps and flags described by Mr. Johns as "things the mind already knows".

"Dream Street" draws on the mostly black-and-white prints of 50 photographers, and the pictures are arranged in such a way that the work of one photographer often finds a subtle parallel in another's.

McCann sets up a subtle parallel, or comparison, between Lily and Douglass — the early section that weaves their two stories together, however loosely, is one of the most powerful in the book.

The chapters alternate as these trajectories converge; there are subtle parallels between characters as they race through autumn, winter and spring, past occasional narrative cul-de-sacs, towards the glimmering possibility of redemption.

As the Shakespearean scholar James Shapiro has shown, Hamlet and King Lear can be seen as state-of-the-nation plays, finding in far Denmark and ancient England subtle parallels for fears about invasion and the lottery of Royal succession that were convulsing the playwright's country as he wrote.

The show draws subtle parallels between the creative power of artists and the archetype of the witch or shaman, but it's not quite as esoteric as that sounds.

Old scores are settled, and there's a not-so-subtle parallel drawn between 1970s-era anticapitalist radicals who seek to harm a factory owner and today's Islamic radicals.

Nevertheless, Grossman does see a subtler parallel between his character, Dovaleh, and his country, Israel.