Sentence examples for in a subtle tug from inspiring English sources
The State Department engaged in a subtle tug of war over the distinguished guests.
Two struggles are under way in Chechnya: a fierce fight between the Russian military and thousands of rebels, and a more subtle tug of war between the Russian high command and the nation's media.
With the subtle tug of a Ouija board's pointer and spare hints of death and cold-blooded fate, Chaon twists the story's conclusion with a chilling break in the narration to address the reader, alone with his words, all struggling in our own way.
We think we want this stuff, but, once it becomes clutter, it exerts a subtle psychological tug.
However, there is no known physiological mechanism that would be this responsive to the subtle tugging of the moon's gravity, says biomechanics expert Karl Niklas of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Punishment and compulsion are still common in dog training, though usually in more subtle forms a tug on a leash, for instance, or a mild shock from an electric collar.
In practice, a subtle defense prevailed.
