How To Use Subtly In A Sentence

Wear the subtly frosted peach on the inner corners of the eyes to brighten, or on the lids for a light makeup look.
Refreshed and regowned, again in dark colors unrelieved by any bright embroidery, Aene paced nervously along a subtly lit path towards the Castrea residence.
Forget the Parthenon and the Acropolis; these days the Patriot Missile launchers unsubtly stationed across the city are the tourist sites du jour.
The emotional tone of the two images is subtly different.
You get a sense of shared solitude, conveyed subtly but precisely, with masterly delicacy and without ostentatious ‘acting’.

Try 'sharpen', if available ('unsharp mask' is even better, as it subtly outlines edges). Times, Sunday Times
Rather than this being understood as outdated elitism, or arrogance, this can be read more subtly.
Erin, the mousiest of the bridesmaids, elbowed Gladys when she noticed, only to find herself subtly rebuked with a withering glare from Cheryl, whose short brown hair and severe temperament remained unchanged for the happy occasion. Crossed
Considering sight and smell as discrete modalities experiencing the object in each is similar but also, importantly, and perhaps, subtly different.
Transitions between items were subtly managed — cadential flourishes on the harpsichord let unlike segue into unlike. Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless her ‘Nightsong’, which incorporates and subtly updates a line from an Irish song, is very fine, as is the even more stark, shell-like vocal of ‘Psalm’.
As the film unfolds, Coppola subtly shifts the perspective to show the plate glass windows as barriers and Tokyo's apparent absurdities are gradually revealed as a positive and regenerative force.
An idiosyncratic use of spacing and punctuation has been part of this writer's equipage for several books, but here she uses these devices more subtly; the use of colons and brackets no longer feels daring, but necessary.
The only way to distinguish them is by their subtly different signature walks and facial expressions.
The orchestral textures vary subtly and the music is alive with incident-written and improvised.
The lounge is furnished with well-selected finds from local vintage shops, while the four subtly styled upstairs rooms all have shiny, polished parquet floors. South America: Perfect posadas
Lipsky's hand-painted edges and the sweet smell of oil paint that had subtly impregnated the gallery were the only echoes of Guston's painterliness.
Her work is abstract, using geometrical shapes subtly arranged and typically painted in soft colours.
Or, while seeming in some way to agree with or approve of it, they subtly condemned. Mothers who Leave
But again, unless one is really honest, absolutely frank, and does not subtly deceive oneself, what I have said can be used to exploit further.
And yes, what I thought was a dull, level waistline turns out to be the top of a gentle wedge, and what came across as a slabby rear quarter is a subtly-bulged haunch hugging the rear wheel tightly.
His work involved anything from subtly painted patterns to clowning about in a monkey suit. Times, Sunday Times
More often than not scenes feel forced and clunky, as the characters none too subtly have to crowbar in the next crucial revelation, or narrative device.
And I would see people subtly sniff the air and then their own clothing, not sure whether it was themselves that were smelling slightly off or not.
The vicomte was about to begin his narrative, and he smiled subtly.
Their attitude to me altered subtly.
It seems as though they are subtly encouraging people to give more installments of less money * wink wink*. Report: Nearly 250,000 Donors Give To Obama Campaign
It smells softly of rose and contains tiny pieces of fairy glitter designed to sparkle subtly - guaranteed to make you look like the cat's miaow.
The light puff-pastry melts away to release the flavours of subtly seasoned potatoes or cauliflower.
The character of noir is subtly uncompromising, at the right time mortally confronting not the two-bit gunsel but Mr. Big, the respectable-appearing ring leader behind it all.
But for the purposes of this thought experiment - that you are not the disenchanted, mechanistic universe of conventional modern cosmology - but rather a deep-souled, subtly mysterious cosmos of great spiritual beauty and creative intelligence. Kenny Ausubel: The Revolution Has Begun - "The Shift Hits the Fan"
But these agendas overlap, subtly borrow concepts and ideas from each other.
The same colour can appear subtly different on different types of paper.
Opt for these sturdy, colorful notebooks with your logo subtly embossed on the cover fabric.
These trends are reflected in new high-end mouldings that offer elegant, subtly aged finishes to complement interiors with a European feel.
Deck's theories threaten to make over-explicit what is more subtly revealed through metaphor.
They said girls often misbehaved more subtly and were harder to manage by established methods aimed at aggressive male behaviour.
Colours that were not previously apparent subtly appear as the eye focuses on the space between colours.
A far cry from Keijo's spooky, noise-laden pastiches or Islaja's feral moan, Growing Green is subtly pastoral.
In the one reported staff incident, a male officer subtly propositioned the woman.
He finds he is often subtly playing matchmaker. Times, Sunday Times
He seldom applied surface decoration other than subtly toned lacquers to protect the metal against tarnishing.
It lurched unsubtly off, towing him after it. Times, Sunday Times
That said, West deliberately takes his time building up to the dark arts activities not so subtly parlayed in the title epic-so-as-to-be-a-dash-humorous. The House of the Devil Available Pre-Theatrical Release on VOD and Amazon | /Film
Deck's theories threaten to make over-explicit what is more subtly revealed through metaphor.
It's not subtly or covertly homophobic for a soap to have a gay character experience homophobia, is it?
Different font implementations, even for ostensibly identical fonts, often produce subtly different spacings. The Volokh Conspiracy » Massive Problems with Anti-Obama Allegations That Have Been Making the Rounds Recently
I took a leaf (or bag) from my pantry and filled the flavour gap with the subtly nutty Kamut flour I found there, as well as pouring in the dregs from a carton of almond milk in my fridge. Simply Sensational
Serena looked up at him with a subtly moonstruck expression. T2: INFILTRATOR
He appeared to impeach subtly every intelligence in the room for having had any preconviction about the prisoner's guilt. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
She still generates enormous force, but what is most attractive about her game is the subtly of stroke, particularly that classical single-handed backhand.
All your arguments imply sometimes less than subtly that there is a conspiratorial movement of some sort driving this so called multipronged attack on the traditional family. If you’re not pissed off, then try following some of these links
The writer uses the highway near Dubai to subtly illustrate the effects of environmental damage.
Sounds like your old friend fatigue is subtly telling you something again. ME Again « Tales from the Reading Room
The casserole is a delicious mix of lamb, subtly flavoured with honey and spices.
Saxophonist Greg Tardy provides a good foil with some subtly understated and nostalgic lines that catch the mood of the night.
In Arzner's subtly altered version, Rosalind Russell's obsessive Harriet is a chilling yet mesmerising figure, and in low-angle shots and mannish attire, looms as majestic and vengeful as a modern-day Medea.
Flying Lotus has been subtly vying for the role of leader of the West Coast future-hop revolution, amassing an army of like-minded experimental producers for his digital label hilariously badass video for "Parisian Goldfish," which features the utilitarian implementation of cartoon genitals. Flavorpill Los Angeles Events
Armed with information he could gauge the situation, perhaps simply buying cheap or, more subtly, offering new violins for old.
If the late Reg is deemed somehow subtly sinister then it suggests things HAVE gone seriously wrong. Reg Varney: His part in our downfall
As arguedin this panegyric from the British Observer website, the 30-episode surreal crime drama subtly revolutionized television drama, moving it away from the superficial episodicsof the 80s towards the meatier, more literate fare that’s become the modern bastion of cable television from The Sopranos on down. Miscellaneous Debris, March 2010 Edition « Screaming Blue Reviews
Herzog subtly chronicles this mighty, pathos-laden struggle, treating it with the seriousness it deserves without airbrushing its blind moments or gestures of excess.
The bodice was subtly ruched and the low neckline showed off her creamy neck and shoulders.
Established military technology works more subtly - not on the basis of one device detects all. Times, Sunday Times
This is the central figural medallion, or emblema, of a geometrically patterned floor, executed in minute tesserae of subtly graduated tones, that depicts a dog seated next to an overturned golden vessel.
Apart from the larger wheels and badging, the Turbo S also wears a subtly redesigned front air grille and oval, rather than rectangular section tailpipes.
I'm more of a flinger than a floater, so my teacher catches my hips, then he stands there and counts slowly to twelve while subtly, telepathically adjusting my posture and watching for signs of collapse.
But slowly, subtly, sometime around midlife, your particular data points start to arrange themselves on the larger human curve.
The still-life arrangement of gold and snake on the table somewhat unsubtly prompted the audience to recognize the performance as a tableau vivant in which a process of active but hermetic mental transformation was taking place.
The familiar curtains and pictures subtly insist that we should not change because they do not; our well-known rooms can anaesthetise us from a more urgent, necessary relationship with particular questions. Ideas for modern living: the benefits of travel
While Savall rang the changes with three medieval bowed instruments - the rebab, rebec, and vielle - Psonis played the santur zither, the Moorish guitar, and a selection of Middle-Eastern drums: the human voice soared above a subtly-shifting kaleidoscope of instrumental colour. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
Thus not least of the pleasures afforded by Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style -- a comparatively small but thoroughly entertaining and subtly instructive exhibition on view at the Museum of the City of New York -- is to be reminded that once upon a time, and not so long ago, the most influential style-setters actually owned their haute couture and bijoux. Fashion As Social History: What Makes A 'Refreshingly Unpretentious' Exhibit On Fashion?
The failure of assimilation created the current question that is subtly asked through racist journalism: can an unassimilated population still maintain human rights once they have been removed?
The photographs also record, albeit subtly, the wear that evidences the many people who have gathered together under these gilded ceilings.
But this is a play about class as well as sex: I had forgotten how subtly Rattigan suggests the opposing counsels inhabit the same masonic clubman's world while the accused, however innocent of the charge, is branded a corrupter of youth and a vulgar sensualist. Review | Old Vic | Cause Célèbre | Michael Billington
Desert reached subtly colored to ocherous cliffs afar. Operation Luna
Yet this beautiful show also challenges our moment in a subtly subversive way.
He had impressions, possibly gross and unjust, in regard to the way women move constantly together amid such considerations and subtly intercommunicate, when they don't still more subtly dissemble, the hopes or fears of which persons of the opposite sex form the subject. The Tragic Muse
The painting is subtly lit from the right of the frame (as you look at it), and a shadow thrown on the wall to the left.
Equipped with all the facilities required by modern travel interchanges, the hall is subtly designed to shape passenger flows.
You'll note that the boilerplate text is subtly different.
And as with all new experiences, people might subtly and indirectly learn something valuable.
She stood wilfully swaying a branch of the tendrilled arbor, and, he subtly felt, so dissatisfied with herself for her temporary disloyalty that she felt alien to them both: Marshby because she had wronged him by admitting another man to this intimate knowledge of him, and the other man for being her accomplice. Different Girls
This Great American poster was not alone in subtly distorting reality. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
As they become proficient in handling their bikes they are subtly introduced to the need for disciplined behaviour on the road.
Wherever we rounded the corner we'd find that someone had subtly rearranged the scenery.
The subtly billed "sparkling" libations, made with the Spanish white wine known as cava, ground their bubbles in the harder stuff of a Hemingway character and are good enough to order twice - particularly the palate-puckering punch of tequila, grapefruit juice and rosemary. Home/News
On the opposite wall are four more subtly disturbing photographs.
The trio hail from Montreal and a wonderfully quaint almost folkish tinge subtly permeates the album.
Electrical wiring and telephone lines can transmit such signals by conduction; walls can vibrate subtly, as can pipes, beams, ducts, and the like.
The photopolymer resin dot-matrix display sits on a table in a frequently trafficked monastery hallway subtly scrolling a news ticker. CNET News.com
It was a point unsubtly, but irrefutably made. Times, Sunday Times
This subtly points to our own construction of people as demons or our internalisation of demonologies without paying heed to the subterranean layers of history and folklore.
The Observer praised "the sheer delight of his style – that sustained, lucid, precise and subtly cadenced prose that can keep you inside the dynamic thoughts of one of his characters for as many pages as he wants". Philip Roth: Still fascinated by himself | Observer profile
The fragmented pieces of captured text are projected onto a blank white wall to create subtly shifting images suggestive of bygone worlds.
Gathered from the salt beds of Camargue, this subtly flavored salt will add burst of flavor to your food. Decalage horaire - French Word-A-Day
More subtly, because the production of nature approach is anthropomorphic it also enables a position from which the fate of nature can be considered seriously without declining into a naturalistic ecocentrism.
In each case any similar activity was subtly redefined to reinforce the apparent rise of the vogue phenomenon.
Along the way, Stubin subtly reveals how a book's index, though it looks unassuming, should be the product of long and careful thought. Archive 2008-04-01
An amuse-bouche of a little glass of gazpacho arrived, pale orange and subtly flavoured.
This person suggested that perhaps — whether people are consciously aware of this or not — at least some of the flak he’s been getting over his infidelities is subtly catering to the old racist belief that African-American men are amoral and oversexed (the fact that most of the “other women” were apparently white or Latina might not have helped him in this regard either). Think Progress » Fox News Televangelist Hume: Tiger Would Be ‘Farther Down The Road’ To ‘Forgiveness’ With Christianity
A handful of spinach or basil could replace the subtly pungent ramsons. Times, Sunday Times
Monks in Tudor England subtly altered the words of Latin plainsong, transforming them into coded protest.
I do think the piece was subtly constructed to plant this idea.
Anyway, Josh ran his fingers through his golden curls and subtly flexed his biceps.
George is obviously a simpatico friend, but can't resist subtly skewering his pals.
Some survivors also experience neurocognitive late effects - changes in the brain's structure and development that don't appear until well after treatment, but subtly impair functioning.
And I realized: the unapologetic nature of my musical omnivorousness owes a great deal to Michael Jackson, to the ubiquitous success of Thriller, to the fait accompli integration of MTV, to the demonstration that, even in the hyper-capitalist (and subtly discriminatory) wonderland of the Reagan 80s, sheer audacious talent could refuse to be marginalized. Archive 2009-06-01
Refuge is a terrifying journey into avant-garde, subtly thematic territory.
To subtly adopt this trend next season, opt for details such as rivets on belts or unexpected utilitarian pockets on jackets. AskMen.com - HOME PAGE
Established military technology works more subtly - not on the basis of one device detects all. Times, Sunday Times
The band's subtly supportive rhythm section is a strong element that buoys each of their numbers.
The result was an ensemble sound seeming at once subtly alienated and interestingly reconstituted. Times, Sunday Times
Ex falso sequitur quodlibet, from a false hypothesis anything can follow, likewise sums up your own m.o. all too well and all too frequently; whether subtly or more overtly and more arrogantly still; distorting what others say, then adding the pointed barb and the tacit, the barely unspoken “fuck-off”. The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional
Use your finger to swipe gold dust subtly over eyelids, or apply with a brush if you're going for an intense effect. Times, Sunday Times
Her tone is more silver than gold, but she knows how to subtly imbue a phrase with feeling, when to color the violin sound to reflect changes in the character of a piece, and when to simply let the music speak for itself. Busy Violinist Seeks Balance
I was glad to be Edward's colleague and friend rather than suffering the indignities he subtly laid on his patron.
All our injuries are subtly different, but we share a desire to claw our way towards the sunlit uplands. Times, Sunday Times
She would regularly open herself up to double entendres and public hilarity and the unsubtly constructed traps of television confrontations. Times, Sunday Times
As a result, although its self-marketing subtly sells a kind of sleek, mid-last-century Concorde-flying sangfroid, The Economist has reached its current level of influence and importance because it is, in every sense of the word, a true global digest for an age when the amount of undigested, undigestible information online continues to metastasize. The Newsweekly’s Last Stand
Although make-up artists have always used falsies to subtly fill in lashes, some celebrities are going overboard with the glue, without casting a second glance at keeping a natural look. EASY ON THE EYE: Whose Lashes Are Fake And Whose Are Real? (PHOTOS, POLL)
Tracing a melodic line from flamenco to raga, it's a subtly modulated burst of Hindu-lusian passion.
Painstakingly made of molded leather subtly colored with many layers of thin acrylic glazes, they have patinas that suggest burl, bronze, marble, ceramic, cloth or even flesh.
His Hilarion was subtly dimensional, not the heavy he's often portrayed, and was honored by the company members with white roses.
The dish featured succulent chicken chunks in a thick, creamy sauce subtly flavoured with leek and tarragon.
I also bought a bag of a Chinese candy called White Rabbit (pictured further below), which is kind of like a subtly sweet vanilla Tootsie Roll wrapped in edible rice paper. WDW Day One 1/2: Epcot World Showcase : Scrubbles.net
Each canvas features the richly textured and subtly modulated expanses of color for which he is well known.
Established military technology works more subtly - not on the basis of one device detects all. Times, Sunday Times
The family dynamics of the characters are subtly enhanced by the real-life relationship of the actors.
Or, while seeming in some way to agree with or approve of it, they subtly condemned. Mothers who Leave
aboveboard" campaign, now subtly and craftily playing the "race card" (because he has so few cards to play; to be fair, former President Bill Clinton played the same game, too), that thing continues to bubble just under the surface. The Bilerico Project
This classily produced and coolly graceful set features chunky Hot Club rhythm-guitar backings, lazily driving blues and subtly underplayed Hammond organ breaks.
Germ theory after 1880 subtly fed into this anxiety by vexing our notions of identity, depicting an invisible world with the power to enforce similitude and therefore to redraw the lines of community.
As each number came up, the girls silently mouthed the lyrics and moved subtly in their seats, miming the actors' gestures.
This differs subtly from our current view of the nature of light particles which, while still affected by gravity, are in fact massless.
Italian and German armorers produced both subtly decorated but functional-seeming garnitures and extravagant show pieces, contrasting high and low relief, delicate incising, gilding, and inlaying, with smoothly modulated steel, originally blackened for drama, as we learn from the portraits. Armor as Wearable Sculpture
This exercise always has offeree shareholders' interests in mind and the premise underlying this may be subtly different. Times, Sunday Times
Having grown up in a household that kept chickens, he got his experience early on, but between raising kids and living in New York, had nearly forgotten about it until he turned on the TV one day and saw a Martha Stewart episode where she was handling graceful silkie chickens and their small, subtly colored eggs. Urban Chicken Raising 101
He also very frequently filled the post of head godfather in baptisms of the subtly - jovial kind.
Valery subtly suggests the progression of evening in the language of the second quatrain's closing lines.
The cool indigo of the subtly patterned wallpaper and the basin complements the honey tones of the fir cabinetry and trim.
Overland has been colonised by refugees from Land fleeing an airborne disease, but a Land ship arrives to re-claim sovereignty, crewed by survivors subtly affected by the plague, and heralding the onset of a war of independence. Archive 2010-05-01
It's a strong premise, compellingly yet unsubtly delivered on screen. Times, Sunday Times
The roar of the machines, the echoes within the massive structures, the subtly of whispered voices are all discovered anew here.
It's certainly ironic that the ultimate union-buster has been ambushed by another powerful exercise in union busting, albeit one more subtly executed without dogs and balaclavas.
There were the mornings when the world was shrouded in a mist which turned subtly mauve, and then as the sun broke through, the mountainsides all around flamed orange-red.
This should be a subtly sexy piece with flowing movement that acts as a counterpoint to the percussive orchestral castanets.
A touch of ominous music or a subtly repeated musical phrase subliminally tells us who’s good and who’s bad. Spencer Tracy FOREVER!
I curled up in a corner and buried my head in my knees and started sobbing as subtly as I could.
Lanvin Eclat d' Arpège is tinted a delicate shade of lilac and provides a subtly feminine spritz of lilac, lemon leaves and wisteria flowers.
In what specific ways has the Spirit's authority been subtly neglected in evangelical theology?
Natural foodstuffs contain a range of flavours that create a subtly different sensation.
Glossy coats of enamel paint bead up on the panels' edges, creating subtly serrated perimeters.
Okay, yes, they'll slant the statistics to suit their arguments, but in the main they are accountable for what they say and any massaging of data will be subtly done.
Providing an explanation of behavior in terms of understandable epistemological conditions or causes subtly strives to exculpate the agent.
Through a sequence of complexly and subtly interwoven interactions, cognitive results are achieved.
Perhaps more subtly considered the "JPII priest" attrition is simply a recent example of the perennial struggle for the celibate priest in his affectivity and relationships, in his heart and most especially in his spousal and paternal love. Pope John Paul II
The white is a milky skin, thin and rubbed-looking; the gray underpainting may emerge subtly, like the blue of veins.
He seldom applied surface decoration other than subtly toned lacquers to protect the metal against tarnishing.
Her high cheekbones were rouged subtly, as were her perfectly formed lips.
Subtly, almost casually, Miéville constructs a metaphor for modern life in which our habits of "unseeing" allow us to ignore that which does not directly affect our familiar lives. Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
In his open palm were two spent bullets, subtly different in shape from anything I was familiar with.
Consider how subtly the following beliefs contribute to long-term unhappiness, even though they might seem innocuous in the short run: Deepak Chopra: Why You Don't Want to Be Happy
A subtly seasoned curry to serve wrapped in a hot tortilla or over rice. Times, Sunday Times
The didjeridu provided a subtly-shifting pedal point for the Prelude, returned for an extended solo at the end of the third movement and was woven into the texture of the entire finale.
Consumer specialist law firms have already unsubtly shouted about being swamped with potential claimants. Times, Sunday Times
It has dropped hints about the sort of thing it might be, though, and not always subtly. Times, Sunday Times
It's one of the core beliefs of my Millennial generation -- that we modern females do well in school,excel at work,make good money,raise cool kids, take careful care of our minds and bodies, and rarely look like we're batting a subtly mascaraed eyelash while doing it please note, however, that taking over the world is usually much harder than we make it look. Jessica Massa: A Non-Athlete's Ode to the Women of Winter X Games 15
But mostly, being the writerly/vindictive type, I've looked forward to handing in the most subtly snarky resignation letter ever penned.
Her silvery hair is perfectly groomed, her make-up subtly enhancing.
Patinkin subtly and graciously showcases Lupone throughout, giving himself goofier turns a la "I Won't Dance. Michael Giltz: Theater: "An Evening With Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin"
Her paintings are all from an aerial viewpoint - as a viewer you look down on a washed, subtly disconcerting landscape.
Use your finger to swipe gold dust subtly over eyelids, or apply with a brush if you're going for an intense effect. Times, Sunday Times
The familiar curtains and pictures subtly insist that we shouldn't change because they don't, our well-known rooms can anaesthetise us from a more urgent, necessary relationship with particular questions. Have Modern Travelers Lost Their Way?
Twice he had returned to find things in his rooms subtly disarranged, as if she had been going through them in his absence. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
Everything, including the perimeter car parking bays, is subtly brought together by Livingston Eyre's landscaping that knits into the bosky suburban setting.
The evaluator is kept blind to the controls to prevent him or her from subtly tipping off the subject, either knowingly or unknowingly.
Though a tentative gesture, Rovine's inclusion of the ceramic piece seems subtly to suggest that museums with African art must not remain repositories for objects from ‘extinct’ societies.
Keith Pitts's semicircular set subtly evokes the Oval Office from which Nixon retreated in disgrace, and Mike Tutaj's rear-wall projections transport the viewer from place to place with discreet finesse. This Stoppard Is a Second 'Scoop'
This wine shows the classic Cabernet Sauvignon varietal charateristics of blackcurrant and choc-mint supported by subtly integrated oak and savoury tannins.
His work involved anything from subtly painted patterns to clowning about in a monkey suit. Times, Sunday Times
Causation and convergence were still operative, but they functioned more subtly, and the audience was no longer enthralled in hypothesis building.
Her version of events is subtly different from what actually happened.
Laurence Eastwood's set, elegant and subtly suggestive of its inhabitant's character, also deserves a mention.
A boy's exposure to phthalates in the womb can subtly demasculinize his play during childhood ( Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews
The conflict of these two perspectives is subtly considered in a satisfying drama. Times, Sunday Times
Scenes alternate between Peder Forbarth, a lowly 'sartorial' who happens across a near-legendary suit of clothes that begin subtly altering him, and a Ziode ship secretly probing the origins of the Caean culture. Book 15: The Garments of Caean
It is curious what a subtle but unmistakable transmutation it makes, both in the body of men and women: the woman more blooming, more subtly rounded, her young angularities softened, and her expression either anxious or triumphant: the man much quieter, more inward, the very shapes of his shoulders and his buttocks less assertive, more hesitant. Lady Chatterley's Lover
His pictures of people also subtly upset our expectations.
The passageway is lit by a ribbon of alabaster above and subtly punctuated by the cathedral's devotional chapels, which are arranged along the inner walls.
California's dawn is subtly different from Virginia's; the air is perfumed, not by woodsmoke and age, but by carbon monoxide, sea salt and sun-warmed rock.
The main use for that particular answer to Nan was to let her know as subtly as possible that she was not to impart that information either, if one of the other pupils asked her. The Wizard Of London
While the period of interference from political totalitarianism has passed, is it not the case that frequently, across the globe, the exercise of reason and academic research are – subtly and not so subtly – constrained to bow to the pressures of ideological interest groups and the lure of short-term utilitarian or pragmatic goals? Archive 2009-09-01
This is not easy to say butfor better and worseover the past twenty years, we parents have been subtly extruded from our kids lives. Childhood Unbound
But a strategy paper published last December by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party offers a different view: that antipiracy operations can help China to subtly gain a foothold in a vital region. What Kind of Game Is China Playing?
The installations were not barrier-like, but seemed to exist primarily to subtly harmonize with the architecture of the gallery.
But in addition to galbi (here spelled gal bee) and bulgogi (bul go gee), there are many more dishes to explore, including subtly flavored, spicy stews seasoned with the hot red chile paste known as gochujang, and soups flavored with fermented soybean paste (doenjang; dhan jang at Muguboka). SF Weekly | Complete Issue
Far more, he subtly manages to make nerdiness and neediness appealing. He Makes 'White Rice' Funny
The car's electronic stability control is used to subtly brake individual wheels and counter any drifting effect. Times, Sunday Times
I love subtly variegated yarns, when knitted up they tend to have a heathery effect.

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