Sentence examples for subtle hands from inspiring English sources

In Mr. Barker's supple, subtle hands, the contest provides a means of exploring the tension within Islam between the kind of fundamentalism typified by rote, literalist instruction and the modernity outside the madrasa's door.

The film's two heroes - David Niven's dashing RAF pilot, who has accidentally eluded a death he faced with cheerful fortitude; and Roger Livesey's brilliant but modest doctor - might, in less subtle hands, have represented an apex in British self-congratulation.

Achurch finished it but the move owed so much to the subtle hands of McGuire as the ball went through Brett Delaney, Sinfield and Hardaker en route to the former Penrith forward.

"You can see a subtle hand, even in the short films.

What fruit is hanging up there, in the top branches, awaiting the adaptor's subtle hand?

Such touches reaffirm that Mr. Gehry, at 76, is an architect with a remarkably subtle hand.

Chefs are able to make wood cookery feel fresh by incorporating smoke into their food with a subtle hand.

And she's very ambitious and political but has the emotional intelligence to play a very subtle hand.