Sentence examples for a subtle power from inspiring English sources

It's small talk deployed as a subtle power move; a sneaky way to set the tone for brisk efficiency.

This is a subtle power move, bulking up the body and preventing shirt transparency in front of the world's media.

Television is pervasive, and has a subtle power over the society which no one, probably, is competent to measure, but it is dispersed so thoroughly throughout the society that is has ceased to be identified with choice, it is so fragmented that it cannot be identified with attention, and it has embraced a mode so childish that it cannot be identified with ambition.

But he began briefing Obama during daily conference calls after the Lehman Brothers collapse, a moment when a subtle power shift took place in the campaign, away from the political advisers who were helping Obama get elected and toward the policy wonks he would need to help him navigate the recession.

JM: With my previous books, and with any "spiritual" teaching, there's always a subtle power relationship, a claim of knowing something that the student doesn't.

FarmVille's user numbers and the increase in the popularity of CSAs and farmers' markets lead me to believe that people want to be involved in food and farms, but only up to a point and only if it gives them a subtle power trip.

But a subtler power shift was also in play: when Connolly and Morris broke the law to protect Bulger, they were furnishing him with grounds for blackmail.

The Queen of Versailles A documentary of subtle power and broad humour.

This predilection for weeping comes through in the final product, in a good way: Clark's just-under-the-surface emotion, his obvious feeling that the great art we're being shown matters, gives the series a rare and subtle power.

Still, D'Angelo is no one-note lover man; the sad-eyed, bittersweet Charade is a protest song with subtle power, its imagery of bodies "outlined in chalk" alluding to the killings of two unarmed black men by white police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, and in New York that prompted him to rush-release Black Messiah.

This multifaceted integration brings a "dramatically different feel and subtle power" to the personal computer, said Jim Allchin, Microsoft's platforms chief in charge of Windows.