Elizabeth and Mark were making small talk, the diplomat's way of sidling toward touchy subjects.

It is impossible to speak with players from either team for long without drifting toward serious subjects.

They have turned artists working in all styles, not just figurative ones, toward darker subjects.

Young women are often pushed toward other subjects.

"They did change the pictorial climate of realism and the attitude toward subjects," he added.

Our writing tends toward sacred subjects and is usually inscribed upon monuments.

The reasons for this turn toward political and ethical subjects remain the object of much study.

The brazen attitude toward sensitive subjects was reportedly not well met.

His early shots were of doors, windows, chairs and flowers before gravitating toward human subjects.

Over dinner, she was careful to steer the conversation toward subjects they had touched on in his class.