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Discover LudwigThe phrase "look subtly" is correct and usable in written English
You could use it when you want to emphasize looking with great care and attention. Example: She looked at the painting subtly, searching for hidden messages.
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Intended to look subtly shabby, it has acquired a second layer of subtle shabbiness with the years: patina covered by more patina.
At this launch concert for their fourth album, Ibn el Leil, the two even look subtly different from their bandmates, with leather bands tied around their wrists and sequinned T-shirts shorn of sleeves.
Secondly, if you've been struggling with how normcore – 2014's much-derided dad-sensible "movement" – works in the real world, then look no further than this: elegant layering, sensible trousers, forgettable shoes: three boring components which combine to look subtly cool.
The qitech makes the case look subtly different thanks to the bumpy protective material visible through the clear corners.
Change your look subtly!
The piece should look subtly aged and worn as soon as you remove it.
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The snow that fills the first and last scenes of the animation, and indicates a year passes in the course of the movie's three minutes, is falling on a European-looking town, with a Christmas market and ferris wheel in the closing seconds looking subtly festive.
The region looks subtly different.
He looked subtly transformed.
In the aftermath, he looks subtly different, breathing hard but composed, with Ramírez suggesting the Macbeth-like enormity of a man's stepping into murder.
Abby would submit to an array of surgical procedures — on her brow, chin, jaw, nose, and throat — that would leave her looking subtly altered: like her own cousin, or her sister.
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