Sentence examples for exert a subtle from inspiring English sources

Pushing forward in some cases and receding in others, they exert a subtle bodily force on the viewer, and because of the encircling colored bands they seem to vibrate around the edges.

But Compa suspects that the company will exert a subtle pressure encouraging them not to do so.

A year later, Dutch theorist Hendrik Casimir predicted that the field would also exert a subtle force on two closely spaced metal plates, squeezing them together.

Having the Met variation doesn't doom someone to a life of anxiety, Casey says, but it may exert a subtle influence.

However, basing this hypothesis solely on findings during PHT may be delusive, because we could not entirely rule out the possibility that inhaled iloprost might exert a subtle positive inotropic action, which could have been masked or counteracted by the predominant effects on RV afterload.

How a museum shapes its collection exerts a subtle and profound influence on how a culture sees art.

We think we want this stuff, but, once it becomes clutter, it exerts a subtle psychological tug.

It's a purist group in some ways, but the players are all at the top of their game, and their articulate assurance exerts a subtle grip.

He is a formidable musician who exerts a subtle intellectual pressure on seemingly straight-ahead readings of the classical and Romantic repertory.

And in doing so, they've made their best album, a thoughtful, oceanic work that sucks one in, its hidden currents exerting a subtle but strong undertow.

To make Ebbesmeyer's analogy more accurate, you'd have to set that bowl of soup aspin on a lazy Susan, since the earth's rotation exerts a subtle yet profound influence on the movements of water and air.