Sentence examples for a subtle ear from inspiring English sources

The American arsenal is so varied that this game requires a subtle ear and considerable experience.

Groff has a subtle ear for the way personalities interact in love, especially when the distribution of talent and effort is uneven, as it always must be".

Derek Pearsall writes: A brain and a subtle ear has gone into the making of this poem...celebrating the mystery of Christ's conception.

The very word "horde" struck his subtle ears as ugly, swinish, coarse.

You can make subtle ears by twisting some of the hair into the right shape (use glue or hair gel to hold them in place), or not add them at all (this works for some of the Jellicles).

It's not actual Anglo-Saxon – that would be too alien to our ears – but a subtle remixing and adaptation of the language of the time.

He suggests I start with ear pointing, or maybe a subtle scleral tattoo that would wash the whites of my eyes a light blue.

Cojocaru may vamp with the best of them, snapping into a deep flamenco backbend, flaunting ear-high extensions, but there is a subtle music in her phrasing.

Her hair is a long brown braid clipped above her ear, visible only because the layered cut-outs provide a subtle three-dimensional effect.

It is a simple conceit but Smith gives us a subtle, complex and compelling slice of urban life, with its class-riddled comprised choices, its pitch-perfect ear for dialogue and its tragically disenfranchised lives.

A subtle signal?