Sentence examples for subtle but essential from inspiring English sources

This play between demand and desire is subtle but essential.

The gesture was made unobtrusively, as if, in other circumstances, to address a subtle but essential matter of protocol.

Supporting Actors, Not Stars Ask cellists to define the part the cello plays in an orchestra, and they describe it as subtle but essential.

He emulated Stewart's subtle but essential timing and gestures, to execute the story in typical Daily Show fashion – which included unveiling the show's new mock segment: Good News!

Besides the obvious difference – a smartphone is light and can be slotted in a pocket; a personal computer is power-hungry and bulky – there's another subtle but essential difference.

As he embarks Tuesday on his first presidential trip to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, Obama will seek to clarify his support for the Jewish state's theory of its historical roots — addressing one of several subtle, but essential, missteps he is attempting to fix in his second term.

This distinction is not just a subtle difference, but essential to how we should understand the current state of public education and those who want to oversimplify by saying that we have entered into an era of "re-segregation".

Medical curricula must emphasize not only the science of medicine, that which is only evidence based, but also the more subtle but so essential art of medicine.

The book's greatest strength, however, is Bouton's personal narrative, which offers essential insight into the subtle but crippling ways that this "hidden disability, one often borne in secret," can upend relationships and threaten professional goals.

But essential?

Sickening, but essential.