The phrase "a more subtle response" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a reply or reaction that is nuanced or less direct than a straightforward answer.
Example: "In sensitive discussions, it's often beneficial to provide a more subtle response to avoid escalating tensions."
Alternatives: "a more nuanced reply" or "a gentler answer".
Our results suggest that bacterial communities growing under increasingly stringent nutrient limitation adapt their enzyme activities primarily for the nutrients provided, but that there is also a more subtle response not linked to the substrates included in the feed medium.
A more subtle response, then, would be to insist only that the adoptive countries provide adequate compensation to the states from which the talented individuals emigrate.
While the temperature treatment in our experiment did not elicit colour morph switches, it elicited a more subtle response in colouration, causing darkening under low radiant and lightening under high radiant conditions.
There is, however, a second, more subtle response, which is that the Bible is political but that its politics is univocal and largely supportive of my own existing political beliefs.
(Has anyone ever tried to do that?) It might also reflect Obama's more subtle response to Israel's extremist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who insulted both Obama and the American people when he told us he will not stop expansion of the illegal settlements that are one of two major stumbling blocks to peace - the other being Israel's insistence that they will not "share" Jerusalem with anyone.
However, the disturbance of this strong transcriptional response completely masked the detection of the more subtle response to hypoxia.
The responses identified at a high concentration of EE2 were used to guide the subsequent identification of generally more subtle responses at a low concentration of estrogen.
29 The lack of any relationship with glucose and insulin is consistent with previous observations 1 that AAs do not significantly affect the glucose response in normal young people, although more subtle responses may be seen under conditions of a euglycemic clamp.
It's also the more subtle responses; the denials and challenges, often repeated over and over, that prove the points that feminist writers are making.
The higher concentration was used to guide the subsequent identification of generally more subtle responses at the low concentration not sufficient to induce vitellogenin.
Magnitudes of response to impulsive stimuli were also weakly correlated with the magnitudes of response to OFF stimuli (Pearson, r = 0.37, P = 0.0388), which revealed a more subtle relationship between impulsive responses and OFF responses.
