Sentence examples for subtly surreal from inspiring English sources
Bruce Silverstein has three variations on a subtly surreal 1948 portrait of a preteen girl with strangely bright eyes and curiously dark skin (she's white).
Parry's ability to untangle the complexity of historic sites and urban situations and layer 21st-century presence into them with artistry and subtly surreal provocation is unmatched in Britain.
Mr. Silver became a presence to reckon with in the New York theater 15 years ago with "Pterodactyls," an angry, witty and subtly surreal portrait of the classic suburban family as a species hurtling toward extinction.
And yet as usual his latest project, a one-off concert with the RNCM big band, was subtly flavoured with surreal comedy, including video images of balloon sculptors and a dentally challenged Tony Blair.
The screenplay is blunt and to the point, and the performances are subtly tinged with a surreal comic edge.
They both have that discreet, surreal sense of fun and a gentle, unassuming stage style which draws in the audience subtly but which actually requires an iron nerve.
The book starts weirdly, with Fellows fleeing the attention of a ghost child that haunts his house, and grows steadily more surreal as he reads Boursier's stories one by one, with each reading of the text seeming to subtly transform the eponymous city.
Some designs work subtly.
A subtly sophisticated wine.
