Sentence examples for subtly strange from inspiring English sources
Ann Pibal's paintings of fine lines, also made using masking tape, are Minimalist by comparison, but there is a subtly strange, futuristic vibe about them.
A rich, complex blend of booming bass, backwards sighs, ghostly backing vocals and deep beats that seldom creep above heartbeat pace, with a voice that sounds like aniseed tastes, it skilfully assimilates both the noir moods of Tricky and Portishead and the subtly strange sonics of Dallas Austin and Timbaland (acknowledged tonight by a cover of Aaliyah's Are You That Somebody?).
And Robert Battle ended the program with a burst of subtly building, explosive physicality in "Strange Humors," danced by Samuel Lee Roberts and George Smallwood.
Something common since classical Greek and Roman art — naturalistic portraiture, subtly idealized — took on a majestically strange aspect.
This is not realism; there is a transforming intelligence at work, converting the size and shape of the real world into something subtly, yet radically - and very disturbingly - strange.
After a while, his strange, blank papier-mache stare actually appears to change expression, subtly, with the dialogue, a comic optical illusion that Frank himself whimsically enforces by telling everyone what his expression is underneath – "non-threatening grin" etc.
Even though it's been years since I read it, Shepard's Project X still carries a strange, dark weight in my brain because of the way it subtly renders the overplayed school shooter narrative.
I tried to capture the brief, but subtly life-altering moments that you can have when you're in a new, strange place and find yourself connecting to people who may not even speak the same language.
Strange habits around a cash register (e.g., some dishonest employees may subtly mark registers to remind themselves how much they've stolen so they can modify their reports accordingly)[4].
He delighted in the art of jolting yet understated juxtapositions; by adding a touch of the strange to a normal context, he could sound the mind's dark depths more subtly than would the overtly grotesque.
