Sentence examples for subtle powers from inspiring English sources

Only he and Mark Rylance have such subtle powers.

Mr. Leonhart plays upbeat, melodic lines, and Mr. Stewart keeps the pulse springy; but it's Mr. Charlap's subtle powers that make this an evenhanded, immensely listenable record.

But Leonardo's claims went much further: he believed that the painter, doubly endowed with subtle powers of perception and the complete ability to pictorialize them, was the person best qualified to achieve true knowledge, as he could closely observe and then carefully reproduce the world around him.

A menu dish name can even sneer, as well as promising gustatory pleasure, interesting mouthfeel, communion with nature, ethical responsibility, science at your service, relaxed and willing sacrificial meat, and a fish that does not sound trashy; and in doing all this it attributes, very flatteringly, subtle powers of discrimination to the prospective eater himself.

Penelope Houston for Sight & Sound also found much to appreciate in Roeg's direction: "Roeg deploys subtle powers of direction and Hitchcockian misdirection".

An absorbing example of the subtle power of small details in conveying big emotions.

The Queen of Versailles A documentary of subtle power and broad humour.

No one, after seeing this show, could underestimate the subtle power of terra cotta.

They maintain a very strict pecking order, and you can even see some subtle power-shifting underway.

It's small talk deployed as a subtle power move; a sneaky way to set the tone for brisk efficiency.

If you thought an accordion is designed for tin ears, Gina Leishman will make you honor its subtle power.