A Spanish-born essayist, George Santayana (1863 1952), was one of the most accomplished masters of written English prose; because of his cosmopolitan culture and the subtlety of his insights, he was one of the most percipient analysts of the English and of the American character.
Fixing the welfare system, which costs too much, but upon which many vulnerable lives depend, is a task requiring dexterity, subtlety, and the sort of insight that distinguishes the possible from the desirable.
What I've seen is a loss of insight and subtlety, a disregard for the nuances of considered opinions, and an increased tendency to enshrine the official or normative beliefs of an organization.
A diagnosis of iatrogenic disease thus requires a substantial degree of insight and subtlety.
What makes them striking is that they eschew conventional orchestral virtues of sumptuous sonorities in favour of music-making of chamber music subtlety and insight.
This is due to his insight that "subtlety of investigation" is needed, since our senses are too gross for the complexity and fineness of nature, so that method has to compensate for the shortcomings of our direct comprehension.
It is not formally or linguistically daring — none of his work is — but it exhibits a quiet avant-gardism of content, for it was one of the first works of fiction by a Korean-American to describe, with subtlety and insight, the difficult hyphenation of immigrant experience.
Its narrative feels willfully melodramatic and contrived, and is rendered in prose so self-important and mannered as to make the likes of Robert James Waller ("The Bridges of Madison County") and John Gray ("Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus") seem like masters of subtlety and literate insight.
Few films have used natural light and landscape to evoke an emotional state with the insight and exquisite subtlety of Hirokazu Kore-eda's 1995 film, "Maborosi," a movie that distills the profound disquiet of its main character, Yumiko Makiko Esumii), a young widow raising a little boy.
Actually, watching it is like playing Call of Duty for 72 hours straight – only without the subtlety and insight.
