Sentence examples for subtle efforts from inspiring English sources

Yet much of his work consisted of more subtle efforts to reshape racial perceptions.

Character names like Ida Dunham, Yank Daley and Whip Masters are among the script's more subtle efforts at sexual humor.

Some of the despairing black comedy of Let England Shake puts in an appearance, albeit in one of her less subtle efforts.

Subtle efforts to put some distance between Lucas and the party could be connected to the unpopularity of Brighton council, which is led by the Greens.

He blamed the County Legislature's Republican minority for stalling the initiatives that he said would prevent them, citing "subtle" efforts to undermine them.

So Aequitas and its allies are making subtle efforts to persuade state lawmakers to criminalize the filming of a rape outright.

It's not as if this were a subtle effort.

But others glimpse a more subtle effort to liberalise Qatar's local culture.

Today, Payton defended himself with a subtle effort to explain the chancy nature of his assignment.

While this effort may not be evident from Mr. Bush's national advertising, it is taking place in a more subtle effort.

With their near-universal praise of "Blue Jasmine," which opens nationwide Friday, critics tended to walk right by Ms. Benzinger's subtle effort in the film.