Sentence examples for a subtle act from inspiring English sources

When the episode was finished, she told me that she had engaged in a subtle act of gender revenge: she'd filmed the male actors in their underwear so insistently that they'd begun to ask her if they looked fat.

She felt it was a threat or a subtle act of violence.

Hoellwarth noted that nominating Jackson might have been a subtle act of misdirection, putting the focus on this curious figure and taking it off of the acting secretary who will be calling the shots for the next few months.

It requires a subtler act of shape-shifting — literally — to revise the architecture of your shadow.

At the other end was the late Vicco von Bülow, better known as Loriot: a more subtle act, whose sketches were usually set in the socially awkward realm of the upper middle class, a world of fine dining, book clubs and boardroom meetings.

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This seemingly subtle act set off a spark that has excited, terrified, or otherwise captured the imagination of the computing world and has spread like wildfire everywhere.

Consequently, courts and deal-makers have been engaging in a subtle balancing act of enticing (initial) bidders without stifling possible bidding competition (or, as far as deal-makers are concerned, drawing the ire of the courts).

This is a subtle balancing act, and lots of cryptosystems have fallen apart over the years when it turned out there was just a little too much hidden structure that could be taken advantage of.

Mr. Cuomo's own pay cut seemed to some a less-than-subtle act of political posturing, one that would put him in a better position to be able to ask workers to make sacrifices.

Even in the still of a pre-shoot morning, Drag Race performs subtle acts of gender-fuckery.