Sentence examples for a subtle affair from inspiring English sources

Danish cuisine in the 1980s was not a subtle affair.

Character is a subtle affair, and has many shades and sides to it.

Those that mastered this discipline in its traditional form usually understood Islamic law to be a subtle affair, wherein disagreement did not necessarily imply error.

What I was saying was that corruption of those who are in the domain of desperation is usually conspicuous and open – that it seems as if more and more corruption is coming from the dalits, adivasis and other backward castes – whereas the corruption of the rich and sophisticated and powerful is a subtler affair, which doesn't show.

The unfolding of Phèdre's story is a sinuous, subtle affair.

This piece, which featured at the Gazelli Art House exhibition "Let There Be Light" in London last September, is a more subtle affair.

It was a subtle thing.

Carol Morley's The Falling is beguiling and disturbing, a beautifully made and very subtle affair that combines melodrama, rites of passage and supernatural elements in an utterly intriguing way.

Snorkelers visiting coral may not notice the canopy below, a much smaller and subtler affair than the lofty bowers of forests on land.

Republican racial rebalancing will be a subtle and lengthy affair, just as Democratic racial rebalancing was.

It's not exactly Derrick May slamming it out down the Smart Bar armed with a stash of sax-heavy diva-workouts, but the Swimmers' take on 4/4 is a subtle, ever-mutating affair, full of unexpected twists and turns.