Sentence examples for fine and subtle from inspiring English sources

Making random-number generators less random would be a fine, and subtle, way to undermine secrecy.

"The roach fisherman," I read, "is an angler of the most fine and subtle accomplishments".

Once again, Mr. González Iñárritu's fine and subtle instincts as a director of actors and a composer of shots are undermined by a melodramatic sense of story and a fundamentally sentimental conception of fate.

How else, other than by happy accident (he wondered to Melvyn) could it be that a fine and subtle actor such as Matt Damon would become Hollywood's biggest monosyllabic action star?

And everything in Moroni's fine and subtle brushwork – from the almost-sneer of the mouth to the dapper, head-in-air erectness of the figure – is borne out by the motto inscribed on the wall beside the duke.

If the evening springs one real and welcome surprise, it is that Lipman gets the opportunity to remind us what a fine and subtle actor she is away from all the comic mugging.

Typical geologic map with fine detail and subtle color coding.

The Hilliard singers performed with their well-honed seamless blend, fine phrasing and subtle dynamic shadings.

Using fine glazes and subtle tonal modulations, she makes the light appear to emanate from the paint itself.

Sebald's writing is similarly woven of fine detail and subtle ricochets, but his madeleine is poisoned.

Made with fine brushes and subtle colors, his pictures of snowbound houses call to mind Charles Sheeler's Precisionism and convey a vivid feeling of cold winter days in the semirural Northeast.