Sentence examples for required subtlety from inspiring English sources

The film revealed Harris to be an actor who excelled at excess, a talent for which he was praised when playing roles that called for flamboyance and for which he was derided as a "ham" when playing roles that required subtlety.

The subject requires subtlety as well as soap opera.

It has to be organic and it requires subtlety.

Both roles require subtlety, sexuality and intelligence and Knightley knows it.

However, exercising such options requires subtlety and fine judgment on all sides and that is by no means a given.

One wonders what he will do with parts requiring subtlety beyond the flat-out delivery that Mascagni asks for.

The overall result has been a complex mix where any kind of policy – cultural or otherwise –might require subtlety.

This will require subtlety in policy making by Western governments, and a political effort commensurate to the one being made by the Burmese authorities themselves.

Both offer detailed, detached descriptions of the difference between speaking and writing, formal and informal, regional differences and the like.Teaching genuine spoken language is a tricky task requiring subtlety.

To capture that level of unsettling complexity requires subtlety and subversion on the part of the artist; much easier, then, for onlookers to elide the work and the life and thereby create a more easily apprehended caricature of both.

It is a task requiring subtlety, manipulation and the ability to cajole everyone from big countries and small — with combustible personalities like President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and more stolid sorts like Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, none of them with small egos — to agree on agendas and policies.