How To Use Subtlety In A Sentence

I think that while full-on female displays will evoke an easy and instinctual hormone rush -- which, as I said, might be a good complement to a melee brawl -- most intelligent people will agree that some sort of subtlety in sexuality is appealing on more levels simultaneously. Archive 2008-02-01
But this subtlety is swept aside in performances that are simply too hard-driven.
Perhaps he went for his speed and energy as it can't be for his subtlety. The Sun
Are there effluvia analogous to what we call odour: effluvia of extreme subtlety, absolutely imperceptible to us, yet capable of stimulating a sense-organ far more sensitive than our own? Social Life in the Insect World
The subtlety of the fragmentary relics of ancient hominid fossil evidence was astonishing.

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Introspective interiorization and psychological subtlety are the inevitable by-products. The Times Literary Supplement
At the very least, a VS store is a few steps above the Indian "hosiery" store where storekeeprs would shout "Ei namaa to opor theke ekta aath-threesh boudir jonne" (Ei throw down a 38 for "boudi" here) with all the subtlety of Shatabdi Express and where Gopal ganjee Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind
A new way of imagining the song glimmers and vanishes before the chorus, as the subdued arrangement loses its subtlety and its way.
At least there was now some quality in the hitting, even if subtlety remained notably absent.
The numerous space and controlled organisations of poetic colours lend subtlety to his part collage-part paintings.
They had obviously been hoping to approach the topic with more subtlety.
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, sing with subtlety as well as grace, in a CD well worth investigating.
But I will say, as you shall see, that he matched their subtlety with equal subtlety; and from what I saw of him I have little doubt but what he would have confounded many a disputant in the synagogues. Chapter 17
Detail, focus, dimensionality, transparency, dynamic expression and subtlety all improved significantly.
Maybe, even, he was using the V-ing form to indicate a semantic subtlety - perhaps the continuative sense associated with progressive V-ing forms - that I didn't get.
But through Kanafani's literary output, Gaon says, he found a man of more subtlety than is revealed in the words of a propagandist. 'Return to Haifa' crosses borders of war
Avoiding the temptation to simply coast on her powerful voice, Case eschews the obvious and instead imbues her music with subtlety and atmosphere.
I can safely say this: the English-speaking voice actors are bad, laying it on thick and heavy, without an ounce of subtlety.
And not just pregnant - she even tracks down a back-alley abortionist (played with lip-smacking subtlety by singer Macy Gray) who nearly kills her. Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: For Colored Girls
Gillian Anderson is supremely self-contained, demonstrating a subtlety in her performance that mirrors the style of the film.
Linear simplicity, naive spontaneity, subtlety of tones and interesting techniques mark his abstracts.
All the texture and subtlety of the script are brought out by a magnificent cast.
The most effective combinations offer variety and subtlety; one makes inroads, the other exploits them. Times, Sunday Times
It has the simplicity and deceptive subtlety of that form. Times, Sunday Times
The food we did get was absolutely delicious in its delicacy and subtlety. Sarah Brown's Vegetarian London
Liszt developed a physical virtuosity for the instrument and transcribed for it, sacrificing musical subtlety to an astonishing mechanical technique.
Just the same, they are worth hunting out for their subtlety of flavour and spicy nuances.
Subtlety is the foremost element in this suavely written and understated novel.
What the band lacks in originality (not to mention coherence and subtlety), it more than makes up for with committed chops and indefatigable energy.
It is a sobering argument and one whose subtlety may not penetrate the political/media filter that permits only sound bites and slogans to pass through.
Everything about director, Steven Brill's movie, smacks of desperation, though, given the laboured quality of most of the jokes, and the overall lack of subtlety.
Mercury rules the animal spirit and is the author of subtlety, tricks, devices, and perjury.
The workshop left me in a profound state of wonder at the subtlety and simplicity of this healing approach.
Now we're into a subtlety of the baseball code: Did Morgan "retaliate" by stealing the bases? Men behaving badly
I must have missed the subtlety and again, no offence was intended on my part.
La Close smiles her wintry smile and dispenses charm with all the subtlety of a bunny boiler. Times, Sunday Times
Pure invective, unmitigated by any sophistication, subtlety or decorum.
Dickinson's poetry, despite its ostensible formal simplicity , is remarkable for its variety, subtlety and richness.
One may jib, like George Orwell, at Greene's belief that a brutally stupid gangster is capable of intellectual subtlety.
This very ordinary subject is transformed by its subtlety of tonality; for Levitan had become a master of rendering the gradations of light as the sky darkens at dusk and moonlight establishes itself.
He felt the world around him with breathtaking subtlety; the complex texture of the ground, the tiny eddies and currents in the air… nothing escaped his perception.
Softness and subtlety mark the essence of Lost in Translation, a film that takes as its premise the impossibilities of human communication and then tells a story that transcends them.
You also have a mix of strength and subtlety to inspire others to fulfil their dreams. The Sun
He realises that the best pictures need subtlety and depth as well as all that furious foreground action. Times, Sunday Times
I checked out the MC6 with vocals, guitar and drums, and was greeted with the characteristic flattering unsubtlety that I've always thought the hallmark of the dbx sound.
Given the band's highly minimalist style, the tweakers are forced to use the subtlety and restraint usually missing from remixes, tastefully embellishing the songs without being overly distracting.
It is hard to evaluate Millet's work; the intention is so worthy and, although without subtlety, so persuasive, but the artistry is so deficient.
There is little subtlety about the story, or any mythic heroes in it. Times, Sunday Times
Sergo, search me, the incapable reparteed with a selfevitant subtlety so obviously spurious and, raising his hair, after the grace, with the christmas under his clutcharm, for Portsymasser and Purtsymessus and Pertsymiss and Partsymasters, like a prance of findingos, with a shillto shallto slipny stripny, in he skittled. Finnegans Wake
But I know from everyday dealings with people dealing with difficult moral situations that the subtlety or complexity of the issues they face can be almost overwhelming.
Then the more ’tis to be feared, said Pantagruel; for subtlety suspected, subtlety foreseen, subtlety found out, loses the essence and very name of subtlety, and only gains that of blockishness. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
She analyses herself with great subtlety.
Subtlety has never been a trademark of the Internet, so don't expect its comedown to be any less tasteful or underscored than its ascension.
Instead, there are collages of sound devoid of subtlety; colliding rhythms that make noise rather than sense.
It heightens subvocal speech or forces you to - very quickly - develop nonverbal communication of some subtlety.
With all the subtlety of a Soviet-era Pravda headline, the calendar is called Vladimir Vladimirovich, We Love You.
In the latest batch of beautifully filmed "Jazz Icons" DVDs, Art Farmer (England, 1964) plays with serene subtlety on ballads like "Darn That Dream," but on "Bilbao Song" and others, the great flugelhornist is on fire. Rochester City Newspaper
Yet there was something of majesty, depressed indeed and overclouded, but still grand and imposing, in the manner and words of Father Buonaventure, which it was difficult to reconcile with those preconceived opinions which imputed subtlety and fraud to his sect and order. Redgauntlet
But the beauty of this disc lies in the subtlety.
A new brutalism has dawned, to replace such memories with far more force than subtlety. Times, Sunday Times
Egypt's situation is full of subtlety and complexity, he says. Times, Sunday Times
La Close smiles her wintry smile and dispenses charm with all the subtlety of a bunny boiler. Times, Sunday Times
The understated melody, the fluid rhythmical meter, the ingenious subtlety, together with random orchestration.
Jon Kuzmich's ostensibly abstract painting stands out by its material subtlety, but it betokens the sort of effort that lay behind Cage's refusal of nonarbitrary decision making. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
The tunes are a better blend of melodic grace supported by delicious twists of harmonic subtlety.
Will the BBC run with that idea or will it instead continue to use the subtlety of language to associate the term conservatism with the worst dregs of radical Islam? Biased BBC
How ironic, then, that Bush's deceptive subtlety has enabled her to investigate the kind of subject matter even the most brazen hip-hop queen would baulk at covering, such as paedophiliac desire, incest, cradle-snatching and, in the blackly humorous "Heads We're Dancing", the quandary of a woman who realises she's been dancing with Adolf Hitler. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
I could forgive the fetishizing of martyrdom if the film displayed a hint of subtlety or emotional resonance.
It's like being ambushed by a rugby tragic who can recite meaningless statistics and All Blacks anecdotes with all the subtlety of a rolling maul.
He rides him beautifully with the right mixture of subtlety and strength. The Sun
African dance is vigorous, but full of subtlety.
Today's methods are wider ranging, able to analyse with greater subtlety.
Whilst not yet approaching the sophistication of biological assemblies, synthetic systems of increasing subtlety and considerable aesthetic appeal have been created.
What the art lacks in subtlety or profundity or originality it makes up for with clarity. Times, Sunday Times
Earlier artists, like Monet, had painted the same motif in series in order to display minute discriminations of perception, the shift of light and colour form hour to hour on a haystack, and how these can be by the subtlety of eye and hand.
His paintings tell a story, with their depth and subtlety continuing to satisfy and inspire after countless viewings.
Fair warning was indeed given them, by Isaiah and other prophets of the Lord, of this desolation; but they slighted that notice, and would give no credit to it, and therefore justly is it so ordered that they should have no other notice of it, but that partly through their own security, and partly through the swiftness and subtlety of the enemy, when it came it should be a perfect surprise to them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The subtlety of the humour is lost on the viewer if he is not aware of this implication.
Watercolours of a very delicate or atmospheric style will exhibit greater subtlety when painted on Hot Pressed surfaces.
Cute dogs: Ford is fine at the start, as a shark, but once he becomes a saintly dumdum he loses his finesse and his subtlety. You Need This Movie Like . . . ..Mr.-
These three theophanies, or manifestations of the divinity of Christ are subtlety embodied within the liturgy for the feast of the Epiphany, which enlightens and deepens our prayer. Archive 2006-12-31
An ability to influence with subtlety and diplomacy should not go unmentioned.
Then the more 'tis to be feared, said Pantagruel; for subtlety suspected, subtlety foreseen, subtlety found out, loses the essence and very name of subtlety, and only gains that of blockishness. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5
Derrida is so perversely myopic a reader, doggedly pursuing the finest flickers of meaning across a page, that he exasperates some of his opponents with his supersubtlety, not his airy generality.
She argued her case with considerable subtlety.
He didn't seem to notice - probably already had all the imagination and subtlety branded out of him during his GCSEs.
She makes great use of pianissimi and the way she controls the legato gives her performances a subtlety not often heard.
Meanwhile, the bombastic score signposts plot points with sledgehammer subtlety. Times, Sunday Times
I'd say it will be a fantastic album full of taste and subtlety and wonderful musicianship and songs.
The playing encompassed subtlety, ardor, menace and rage, all with an admirable polish.
If post-rock has proved anything, it's that subtlety and bombast aren't mortal enemies.
Splicing the huge sound and harmonic subtlety of swing-era tenorist Coleman Hawkins to Lester Young's lyrical looseness and Charlie Parker's momentum, Rollins offered a new agenda for the tenor saxophone. Sonny Rollins records Saxophone Colossus
Her dancing has great subtlety.
Is Gallic subtlety any match for the brute force of History?
Granted, there was little subtlety. Times, Sunday Times
But the direction is often crude and lacks the subtlety and genuine insights of his later work.
Considering the artful subtlety found elsewhere, this is a let-down, stripping the film of any resonance with the issues at hand.
Carefully blending amorous subtlety with a more solid and dense desire, the band sound solid and fluent on stage.
The flavour is without subtlety, it is a meat flavoured with salt in various degrees. Food Watch
'This offering doesn't pretend to subtlety at all, but the premise is so very intriguing, and so well-presented (in characteristically wry Pratchett fashion), that Johnny's cry for the essential humanity of all to be recognized, whether English, Iraqi or ScreeWee, loses none of its poignancy-or timeliness.' Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett: Book summary
He interested himself in me, and I owe it to him that I am to-day a finished man of letters, being well versed in Latin, from Ciceros Offices to the Mortuology of the Celestine Fathers, nor ignorant of scholastics, of poetics, of music, nor even of hermetics nor alchemythat subtlety of subtleties. VII. A Wedding Night. Book II
you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew
the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French
Yet television's soundbite culture, its inbuilt tendency to trivialise, is seen as being in direct opposition to the complexity and subtlety of the law.
Perhaps, though, under the donnish joking they won't notice a great deal of subtlety.
There is little tonal variety or subtlety. Times, Sunday Times
He is described as ‘a master of filigreed subtlety, skilled playing of classical and modern pieces’.
Ruthless editing would have crafted sharp-edged form out of the three hours of exhausting overabundance, infused subtlety into unrelieved shrillness.
Whereas a play such as Kindertransport looks at the terror of that time through the much subtler lens of whole lives, through the story of those lives that seemed to interest the author - Brecht on the other hand is not, in these scenes, an author of great subtlety. Getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed
Considering the artful subtlety found elsewhere, this is a let-down, stripping the film of any resonance with the issues at hand.
Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny exposé of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell. My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary
It reduces subtlety and finesse. Times, Sunday Times
The play's targets – establishment fustiness, snobbery, racism and duplicity – aren't surprising, but the serpentine subtlety of the plotting is. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic – review
Let's have a bit of subtlety and sophistication here, qualities that postmodernists are always urging us to adopt.
In this Japanese episode, the best frames combine the boldness of Ukiyo-e prints with the subtlety of colour that modern multicolour printing systems bestow. AAARGH! Bumper Souvenir Catalogue
He subsequently dropped much of the textural subtlety in favour of breathless Cuban and funk populism.
In these, her first and feeblest attempts to animalize organization, it is latent, because undeveloped, and merely potential; while, in the human brain, the last and most consummate of her combined energies, it is again lost or disguised in the subtlety (15) and multiplicity of its evolution. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.
In what may be the ultimate feat of subtlety and indirection, they want to control the behemoth by appealing to its conscience.
This insight contains many dimensions and varying degrees of profundity and subtlety, which in a sense, can never be adequately described with language.
One of the most ingenious and economical of these contrivances, whereby, with a subtlety of argument worthy of the great trafficker in indulgences, Tetzel, who so raised Martin Luther's ire, they manage cheaply to transmit funds to heaven, is the paper dollar, strings of which are sold in the shops, looking exceedingly like goodly bunches of the silvery onion. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
DOWNSIDE: Forget subtlety these houses ooze wealth. Times, Sunday Times
The focus is certainly on subtlety, with easy simple shapes, and feminine silhouettes forming most of the collection.
He paints with a broad brush, using little subtlety. Christianity Today
In sum and without subtlety, he speaks ill of all journalists and of all newspapers, to the extent that he even misses the fairly civilized old fuddy-duddies like Angelo Rinaldi and Michel Marie-Laure Delorme: Provocation and Silence in Public Enemies
Here too are many of the familiar themes - alienation, loss, connection, regeneration - that she explored so deftly and with such subtlety and clear-sighted compassion in her story collection.
The great subtlety of the story lies in its withholding of an answer to these questions. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
It has the simplicity and deceptive subtlety of that form. Times, Sunday Times
The sheer variety, delicacy, subtlety and compulsive fertility of her work is awe-inspiring.
By doing so, they are making a political point, albeit with sledge-hammer subtlety.
Surely, I think, McKellan's Magneto would raise every car, van and lorry from the bridge, shatter it to a powder of steel, and fuse that steel into a new bridge, into something more magnificent in its slender, shining subtlety than that mere lumpen mass of man's construction, ripped from the earth and dumped in its new position. On the Sublime
Matt Lewis reports that National Review thinks the pledge is "bolder" than Newt's Contract with America, while Erick Erickson trashes the plan with typical subtlety and understatement: The Morning Plum
The complementarity manifested in quantum laws reflects the inability of our classical concepts to accommodate the richness and subtlety of the world, and removes the Cartesian divide that insulates the observer from the observed.
What he lacks in sheer melodic invention he makes up for in harmonic subtlety and complexity. The Times Literary Supplement
Too many cantors ignore the subtlety of their sacred practice.
So do dactyls, and neither of these meters is particularly associated with subtlety, but Finch sets out to change that.
In time you'll appreciate the beauty and subtlety of this language.
Gallic wit and subtlety are perfectly married to Russian soul in this performance.
Spanish salami tends to be rough and ready, lacking subtlety if not taste. Food Watch
There are kinds of subtlety and metaphorical allusiveness that are easier to achieve in comics than in novels.
This lends an air of deliberate camp to a play that needs no such favours, and which would amuse with more subtlety in their absence.
The originality of her psychological insight, the passion and subtlety of her theological imagination , the fecundity of her exegetical talents are unevenly displayed here.
In fact they provide a surprisingly rich bass, as well as an unexpected subtlety of aural pleasure that exceeds all expectations at this modest price. Times, Sunday Times
The reward for the reader is polysemous meaning, subtlety, fractal flavor bursts of emotion and idea. BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Writers on Writing: Sentence Structure Oopsies
For most part in these kind of disports 'tis not art or skill, but subtlety, cony-catching, knavery, chance and fortune carries all away: 'tis ambulatoria pecunia, Anatomy of Melancholy
Many of the resulting wines lack the subtlety of the original model.
We didn't want subtlety or nuance. Times, Sunday Times
Symbolism is present but it doesn't suffer from the sledgehammer subtlety disease with which Hollywood is stricken, rather it serves more as icing on the cake.
In fact, she manages to address most things with subtlety and dignity!
Lord Ribblesdale, the argute son of a Scotch mother, was thrown in to make up for any shortcoming in intellectual subtlety that might arise in the case of his younger colleagues; and this completed the two teams. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
A dish called the Tidal Pool has a subtly tinged grace of oysters, urchin, wakame, and wood-ear mushroom, but its ethereal subtlety matches nothing on the menu.
Just don't expect much subtlety. Times, Sunday Times
History is as much about subtlety and nuance as provocative theories. Times, Sunday Times
Listening to the interview, I was impressed by the subtlety of the questions.
At least there was now some quality in the hitting, even if subtlety remained notably absent.
The playing encompassed subtlety, ardor, menace and rage, all with an admirable polish.
Meanwhile, the bombastic score signposts plot points with sledgehammer subtlety. Times, Sunday Times
And you'd better get used to the wonderful subtlety of flavour in quinoa. Times, Sunday Times
I miss that subtlety needed for great acting. Times, Sunday Times
Demonstrate, with less or greater subtlety, that you've actually done this reading via hundreds of endnotes, footnotes, and superscripts.
Subtlety and particularity are lost; the public becomes conflated with the political, and, as a consequence, issues become polarized into mutually exclusive ideologies.
I found the Sanctus, though essentially vigorous, perfunctory in its lack of subtlety in emphasis and articulation.
Meanwhile, with sledgehammer subtlety, heavily symbolic builders are taking apart the offices of the law firm. Times, Sunday Times
They had obviously been hoping to approach the topic with more subtlety.
Costner's worst trait as a director, besides his ham-handed use of symbolism like precious china or fluffy white puppies, is a disregard for subtlety.
Once I dumped my preconceptions I was able to appreciate the spare subtlety and deep beefiness of the northern variety.
For so there are many men who know what sort of creatures use to be generated out of certain herbs, meats, juices and humours, bruised and mingled together in a certain fashion; save only that it is harder for men to do these things, inasmuch as they lack that subtlety of sense, and penetrativeness of body in their limbs dull and of earthly mould. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
Contrary to what many people think, you need neither a great knowledge of the classics nor a mind stocked with literary quotations to enjoy the puzzle's subtlety. Times, Sunday Times
Aristophanes essayed the task both by criticism and example -- by criticism, directing the shafts of his ridicule at over-emphasis and over-subtlety, by example, writing himself in inimitable perfection the beautiful Attic dialect, which was being enervated and effeminated and spoiled in the hands of his opponents. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
This is what people come to Granada to see and no amount of description can do justice to its refinement and subtlety, precisely because the essence of Moorish art is its simplicity.
And for all the power of Firth's inner-directed subtlety, it is surely true that there are few stars who occupy such a clear place in the mind of the cinema-going public as Grant does. Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50
What he lacks in sheer melodic invention he makes up for in harmonic subtlety and complexity. The Times Literary Supplement
Yet in Blackheath sixteen people already appreciate its subtlety and its realism and all the rest of it. New Treasure Seekers
To elucidate and confirm our opinions on this subject, we beg leave to ask, what is that play in which there is such a mass of virtue and simplicity, and such a number of amiable personages, opposed to such a mass of villany, subtlety, fraudful avarice, and sensual vice, as in The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
The skirmishes are conducted with the utmost courtesy and subtlety, of course. Times, Sunday Times
Instead we got subtlety woven with destructive two-fisted power. The Sun
Meanwhile, with sledgehammer subtlety, heavily symbolic builders are taking apart the offices of the law firm. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the resulting wines lack the subtlety of the original model.
With chiming percussion to the fore, transparency and subtlety are the characteristics of the orchestration.
The strongest and most athletic players were dominant and skill and subtlety remained defiantly absent. Times, Sunday Times
He felt an affinity for the subtlety of the slide trombone and related to its connecting influence and to its relatively low profile as a lead instrument.
Everything about director, Steven Brill's movie, smacks of desperation, though, given the laboured quality of most of the jokes, and the overall lack of subtlety.
It was as if he was planning his next move, with the subtlety and care of an admiral commanding a fleet of warships.
As you can see, this is already shaping up to be a winner for subtlety and rapier wit.
He argued his case with considerable subtlety.
Intelligence and imagination are both at work here; more subtlety and focus would give the production real heft. Times, Sunday Times
If this is classicism, it's classicism at its highest artistic point of subtlety and complexity.
It's an effective formula but one that's devoid of soul or subtlety. Times, Sunday Times
As with its other chapters, the chapter in SOS on knowledge processes insults the complexity and subtlety of the topic by its short, breezy treatment. Austrian Economics in Business, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
It was an utterly absorbing match, defined by subtlety as much as power and athleticism. Times, Sunday Times
Quantification provides greater descriptive flexibility and subtlety than simple classification.
As a young player I look for subtlety and skill, not big top spin shots all the time.
African dance is vigorous, but full of subtlety.
Unrelenting tosh, it mixes dodgy accents with over-ripe dialogue, hammy performances and the kind of pell-mell pace that leaves little room for subtlety or reflection.
Only the most inept of dramatists could deliver a romance so completely lacking in depth and subtlety.
The directness of the message, which is somewhat bluntly conveyed, is a somewhat disappointing end to an extraordinary novel that is full of subtlety and cunning.
The hyaena was a fool, it did not know the weasel surpassed it in subtlety; it thought the meat was tied; but when it tried to draw out its tail, it was fast. Popular Tales from the Norse
The portent is described with great force and subtlety. Nobel Prize in Literature 1911 - Presentation Speech
But the producers, who had been so ahead of our game 10 years ago, sucking us in and manipulating subtly, somehow didn't hear these chats, any of them, and kept stuffing in some of the most dysfunctional people in Britain, ramping it up, manipulating with anything but subtlety, like a magician dropping the palmed coin and backing crashingly into the mirrors. Rewind TV: Big Brother; The X Factor; Dispatches
Here's hoping the subtlety won't be lost in the upcoming avalanche of boffo Christmas fare.
Usurped the subtlety, the vulnerability of the egg and ham wedding, the pepper xenolith stood firm, yelled to the other flavors and claimed victory, zero-sum taste diplomacy. Tabasco Revenge

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