Sentence examples for subtle in proportion from inspiring English sources

Thus architecture had developed, early and freely, a consistent style, pure and plain, subtle in proportion.

To make a foot-long Ferrari look like a real Ferrari may require artistic license -- subtle changes in proportion and detail.

The game also mixes glamour with ordinariness in subtle proportion: players are hero-worshipped, but one reason you revere them is because they are alter egos, who could easily be you.

He presents the menu's perennials with piquant details — the roast squab with quail egg, the truffle-crusted salmon with oyster mushrooms, the braised short ribs with roasted parsnips — matching distinct flavors in subtle proportion.

Although IOP shows a trend toward a subtle inverted U-shape relationship with increasing age, 49 the prevalence of glaucoma increases in proportion to increasing age.

But keep things in proportion.

Everything is still in proportion.

It puts things in proportion.

This is football in proportion.

In proportion to his talent.

But seldom have his elemental dynamic contrasts sounded so properly in proportion or so mercurial, with the 50 or so players able to play out lustily in fortes and pull back quickly to quieter modes, whether playful, subtle or mysterious.