Sentence examples for subtle tale from inspiring English sources

This is a play made to drive home a message, not tell a subtle tale.

The result is "an impressively subtle" tale imbued with "an elegiac vision of the passage of time," Polly Shulman wrote here in 1999.

Zola is another precisely lyrical, socially concerned realist; Nabokov was a great admirer of Flaubert's clinically accurate style; Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot is a subtle tale of literary affection.

This subtle tale of certainty and uncertainty (the criminal never explains himself, on film and apparently in life) is abetted by storytelling and editing that make judicious use of misdirection, even as the camera captures panoramic beauty aside long takes of unblinkingly observed detail.

However, I did ultimately enjoy Arnott's storyline rather more than that of Gates, if only because it was the more subtle tale and I remained genuinely unsure as to whether he would tell the truth at the inquest or save his skin.

This subtle tale of courtship and romance is set to a video consisting of one plagiarized goth image after another, each so mindblowingly literal that when the lyrics go: "When you were three," we are treated to a badge with the number 3 on it.

Most stories aren't as dramatic as Holloway's, but are subtle, insidious tales of promotions denied and training withheld, until the woman in question becomes so demotivated that she leaves.

Partly because the camera, as I say, tells a subtler tale than the dialogue does, and lures us into a grudging respect for the bravado of Muse and his men; but mainly because of Tom Hanks.

Having made my way through the German version, I believe that it deserves wider exposure; it's a subtle, ambiguous tale, in which Posmysz imagines the world as her captors saw it.

Purple Hibiscus, a subtle and gripping tale of an abusive childhood in a Nigeria shaken by a military coup, was shortlisted for the Orange prize in 2004 and last year won the Commonwealth Writers Best First Book Prizee.

In Prodigal Summer she returns in a sense to her own back yard, although her marvellously subtle and compelling tale of a southern Appalachian farming community in tense interplay with the wilderness on its doorstep contains a deft parable of humankind's place in nature.