Sentence examples for troubled subject from inspiring English sources

These have long been troubled: subject to fits of Chinese rage over American arms sales to Taiwan and other perceived transgressions.

Irène Heidelberger-Leonard's meticulously researched biography, in Anthea Bell's elegant translation, is empathetic, but true to the ambivalences of her fascinating and troubled subject.

Crosby, by contrast, resists any impulse to impart lessons, shrugging off the narrative arc that "carries the troubled subject through painful trials to livable accommodations … and all too often sounds the note triumphant".

"When did you get fined for not turning up for training," it read, followed by that iPhone emoji that resembles the troubled subject of Edvard Munch's The Scream: eyes locked open, mouth agape, hands clasped to cheeks.

The precocious and prodigious evangelical preacher Marjoe Gortner, the subject and star of Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan's 1972 documentary "Marjoe" (Amazon and Sundance Now), is an ecstatic performer whose self-awareness of the theatrical illusion with which he stokes faith in others that he himself doesn't feel is the film's troubled subject.

There is no dearth of troubling subject matter in the three-part "Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012," especially in the documentary category.

Reckless, who claims to support open primaries, has not troubled to subject himself to one, and hopeful Tory canvassers claim that Rochester's voters don't like the £250,000 of taxpayers' money his by-election is costing them.

Lichtenstein's tinkering with the source material resulted in a recomposition with sharper focus after he eliminated several elements that distract from the depiction of the woman, such as the capsized boat, troubled male subject and the general seascape.

No matter how troubling the subject, photography by groups like the Farm Security Administration and the Photo League, and the photojournalism in Life and Look and other magazines in the 1930's, 40's and 50's generally, observed the basic rules of precision, strict observance of perspective, and firmly grounded, mostly centralized compositions.

It seems to me Peace's books have followed a particular trajectory; they have become more and more troubled by their subject matter.

Its subject matter troubled television executives, and the fact that the episodes often left viewers hanging went against formula.