Sentence examples for rather subtly from inspiring English sources

Even the models, who were otherwise rather subtly made up by catwalk standards, sported thick false eyelashes: all the better for fluttering.

And the gang still managed, rather subtly, to skewer Brooks's implausible juxtapositioning of a reputation for micromanagement with that breezy verdict that said she knew nothing of phone taps.

With his rather subtly titled track "The Weed," Space Jesus takes a break from hip-hop tracks about "ratchet thongs" (as he is wont to do under his collaborative alias, #$) and his usual psychedelic bass for something a little more off-kilter: stuttering footwork beats overlaid by melancholy chords and vocal samples cut from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony's "Ecstasy".

The furR3S mutation also decreased resistance in the M2.2 background, albeit rather subtly: like fur-wt, furR3S allowed 100% cell survival of M2.2 on agar with 32 µg Mtz/ml; most significant, however, on agar with 50 µg Mtz/ml, the fur-wt and furR3S alelels allowed survival of 10−1 and only 10−5, respectively.

Actually, rather than subtly shifting the quality of the light, the chimneys' movement merely made the actors and scenery more or less visible.

He often addresses the camera directly, a trick Allen did himself rather more subtly, over the washing up, back in Annie Hall.

Policy ought to focus on ensuring that it doesn't become too late, rather than subtly but surely encouraging people to become unemployable, which is what we've done, like it or not.So what to do?

In his retelling, Zeus' messenger Iris doesn't order Priam to go to Achilles; rather, she subtly suggests that Priam is free to act as he likes, that things are not foreordained but simply "the way they are.

After the sexual revolution, Ms. Cox writes, some fashion editors portrayed women as "ready to bludgeon men into submission rather than subtly coerce them with any kind of feminine wiles".

But the action is too frantic at times – with rapid cutting, rather than subtly unfolding scenes – and the narrative voice sometimes turns sanctimonious ("In a decadent society people can slowly drift or slowly be drawn by the culture of commerce into yearning for violence", etc).

Clients want "starchitects" - or, at the very least, designs that boldly stand out rather than subtly fit in.