Sentence examples for subtle build from inspiring English sources

There's been a subtle build over the five days in the luxuriousness of our lodgings.

Mr. McQueen, aiming at something both more explicit and more subtle, built his show around the idea of a dance contest in which hope and happiness quickly evaporate.

"Hate speech can be quite subtle, and build over time," Rouse said, noting that Internews has taken a similar approach when working in other areas of conflict, like South Sudan.  .

To avoid overwhelming your boyfriend, you should start by being subtle and build your way up to talking about your own marriage.

After an inconsistent start to this season, a subtle pressure built as well.

Mogwai's reputation these days is as much for restraint as ear-pummelling volume; last year's soundtrack for French drama The Returned was full of subtle, slow-build tension.

But Ms. McGuane bristled when asked if this was actually a more subtle attempt to build a database of addresses.

The real power here comes from the pervasive, subtle menace Chapman builds up.

This book is about how it feels to be a magician -- not a romantic Robertson Davies fantasy but a craftsman and laborer in drafty backstages, ever in search of subtler ways to build miracles out of contradictory fragments of drab reality.

Other cables to Canberra described the pledge as "a not-too-subtle attempt to build momentum for negotiations on a nuclear weapons ban treaty" but also reported that "the Austrian pledge is fast becoming a galvanising focus for those pushing the ban treaty option".

Whereas the busy bebop of the 1940s and 50s ricocheted with flying runs of notes and twitched with constantly changing chords, Kind of Blue was quiet, spacious and subtle, the improvisations built on note patterns or modes rather than song harmonies, so that the underlying chord-movement was peacefully minimal.