Sentence examples for subtle clash from inspiring English sources

Menander's nicety of touch and skill at comedy in a light vein is clearly evident in the Dyscolus in the character of the gruff misanthrope Knemon, while the subtle clash and contrast of character and ethical principle in such plays as Perikeiromenē (interesting for its sympathetic treatment of the conventionally boastful soldier) and Second Adelphoe constitute perhaps his greatest achievement.

More wearable and modern were the stripe silk shirts, styled with a subtle clashing check, slightly cropped trouser and a brown cardigan deliberately frayed and laddered with holes.

"Dr. Ruth, All the Way," the first commission in the company's New Works Initiative, involved managing the subtler clash between sadness and humor, he said.

From the upper house of the Russian parliament, Mikhail Margelov, another foreign-policy heavyweight, has called for a suspension of diplomatic relations.A subtler clash of cultures is echoing through St Cyril's, where the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, tied ecclesiastically to Russia, has influence.

Subtle cultural clashes with Caucasian or Latino boyfriends led to unhappy breakups.

We also love how her animal print shoes are a subtle attempt at power clashing.

Ferris also neatly summarizes the prehistory of modern science's ascent, with subtle takes on Galileo's clash with church authorities and Francis Bacon's inductive method.

(It's hard to know what to make of the names in "The Infinities"; they're too obvious to work as jokes, and they clash with the subtler workings-out of the novel's themes).

It's a serious subject and treated with many subtle nods to class and cultural clashes.

The clashes typically revolve around subtle distinctions that are often not readily apparent to those unfamiliar with the revision process.

As previously established in a long rant about his people's troubles with the Bush clan (basically, a clash of sensibilities, and too subtle for me to grasp), "George" meant the President.