Sentence examples similar to bland subtlety from inspiring English sources
Subtleties normally buried by bland electric instrumentation could emerge unscathed, and at its best Mr. Winchester's use of rubato - the ability to tease and bend the musical line without disrupting it - was really masterly.
Accent, pronunciation and cadence provide invaluable subtleties of meaning; to bland those out, to buff down the rough edges into a single language, is to emasculate, inhibit and compromise.
In fact, most of Liebrandt's food is more titillating to the imagination than to the tongue: he combines his seemingly dissonant flavors with such subtlety that the results are surprisingly bland.
Subtlety is the hallmark of Ms. Dijkstra's work, but the "Park Portraits" register more like bland, tepid versions of the "Beach Portraits" than stirring additions to her oeuvre.
But if parts of the program were bland, you could hardly blame Mr. Norrington or the musicians, who played with vigor and clarity, and consistently applied dynamic subtlety and flexible tempos to even the most boilerplate-laden phrases.
The bland poet Speranza, Boland writes, subjected her poems to a 'word-bath of acid, in which details and subtleties are dissolved".
