Sentence examples for otherwise subtle from inspiring English sources

It was a rare moment of pantomime villainy in Dornan's otherwise subtle performance.

Plump mussels, heady with cider and garlic, depth-charge an otherwise subtle assembly of crisp-skinned stone bass and puréed parsley root.

The scallop sashimi was drizzled with an orange-rind-infused syrup that gave a clean finish and some extra bite to the otherwise subtle and buttery-soft scallops.

Vale is the son of Suffolk farmer Landyn Midwinter, the overt symbolism of their names a rare misstep in an otherwise subtle book.

More than one otherwise subtle song was interrupted by a long, uninteresting demonstration by Mike McCready, who gave his wah-wah pedal a thorough workout.

If "Pure" has a flaw, it's that once the novel's insistent metaphors begin to accumulate, from the mirrored halls of the court of the Sun King to the wolf-like creature prowling the charnel pits, they push an otherwise subtle narrative toward something a little too close to allegory.

Yes, it's artistic, but in the otherwise fairly subtle cabin it looks like a ham-fisted nod to American luxury Americans like their trees slathered on our dashboards apparently, even if, like BMW, some carmakers are finally realizing that the right plastics and metals can look far more refreshing.

It's a strong opening to an otherwise more subtle EP.

The presumably high parasite pressure in these habitats could lead to pronounced and therefore detectable signs of otherwise more subtle mechanisms of selection [ 45].

Although we would not expect latency differences between 7° and 10° amplitude saccades (Kalesnykas & Hallett, 1994), we removed these directional sources of variability that might otherwise mask subtle differences in the location and shape of the latency distributions of interest.

Not a great painting in any league, it seems out of place in this otherwise well-kempt, subtle show.