Sentence examples for a subtle act of 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.

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It's a subtle bit of filmmaking.

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.

Whether it involves overt bullying or subtle acts of thoughtlessness, incivility takes a toll.

I don't mean to single out Keizer; he's made much more subtle acts of protest, such as the Girl on a Swing and the ubiquitous Ants.

Subtle acts of surgery have now stitched the pieces together, forming a layered sequence that echoes the classical form of the existing Serpentine Gallery across the lake.