The phrase "a subtle account" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a narrative or explanation that is nuanced or delicately presented, often requiring careful consideration to fully understand.
Example: "The author provides a subtle account of the events leading up to the conflict, highlighting the complexities of human emotions involved."
Alternatives: "a nuanced description" or "a delicate narrative".
It's an interpretation that denies us Nora's consciousness-raising journey towards self-realisation, but offers instead a subtle account of a marriage between two adults of equal maturity and unequal status.
He has had his departures - The Last of the Mohicans (maybe his most accomplished picture in that it has an old-fashioned scheme of heroes and villains) and The Insider, a subtle account of principle and compromise in big business and the media.
In the next two years Mansfield did her best work, achieving the height of her powers in The Garden Party (1922), which includes "At the Bay," "The Voyage," "The Stranger" (with New Zealand settings), and the classic "Daughters of the Late Colonel," a subtle account of genteel frustration.
And a paper by William Grampp, published in 1952, offers a subtler account of mercantilism.Mr Grampp concedes that mercantilists were keen on foreign trade.
The collection ends with "The Wadden Sea", a strong, subtle account of a woman whose mother moves away to escape her depression, or "fear of life".
Far more telling is the publication this year of a sympathetic and subtle account of life in America, written by the son of the foreign minister, Qian Qichen.
That is a magnificent injunction to issue to a troubled son, but it was not an injunction that Mr. Solomon was able to obey, and he provides a nuanced and subtle account of why that was so.
Don Ihde (1990) has used the resources of phenomenology to give a rich and subtle account of the variety and complexity of our relationship with technology.
Mencius's views might be mistaken, but they cannot be casually dismissed as naively circular; rather, they must be evaluated as a complex and subtle account of ethics and philosophical psychology.
Still, she gave an impassioned and often subtle account of this touchstone and demanding role.
Brief attention to two of their objections will help bring out at least a couple of the many facets of Broad's subtle account.
