Sentence examples for Subtly brilliant from inspiring English sources

Subtly brilliant but largely unheralded in the UK, one of the best shows on TV returns quietly to Five USA tonight.

Dryden enjoys some subtly brilliant word-play.

It's subtly brilliant work from writer Stefan Golaszewski.

The quiet ying to Jackmaster's hyperactive yang, he's one of the most subtly brilliant DJs around.

Reading Lessing's subtly brilliant short story Out of the Fountain, I had that Keatsian feeling of a new world coming into view.

But he captures the wistful yearning of the original in his subtly brilliant piece, in which harmonies turn spacey, thematic lines leap skittishly across the piano's register, and the music spins into something of a tizzy at the end.

It's no wonder she won the 2011 Tony Award for playing this part, which at times channels the first Reno -- Ethel Merman -- so subtly, it's brilliant.

A beautifully weighted, subtly curving McCann free‑kick concluded matters as, appropriately, brilliant sunshine replaced the cloud and rain which, possibly in sympathy with Ferguson Sr, had earlier shrouded the ground.

Philippe Manoury, 50 and now at the forefront of his generation, subtly engages electronics with his instrumental and vocal writing to brilliant effect.

That virtuosity was in particular evidence in the "Sinner Man" section of "Revelations" (danced by Jamar Roberts, a particularly brilliant Clifton Brown and Michael Francis McBride), but the work seemed competent and subtly under par.

Nicol Williamson (obituary, 27 January), like John Osborne, was everything you didn't expect: very funny, sophisticated, subtly affectionate, wickedly observant, as interested in other people as a brilliant mimic has to be.