Sentence examples for subtle joke from inspiring English sources
The (not very sophisticated or subtle) joke is on Cornwall.
Not at all," he said, sounding as if he were telling a subtle joke.
Apple's designers conceived the latest model as a subtle joke on the demise of "form follows..."...
One subtle joke is its duelling perspectives: unlike the train, Sze's sculpture shoots off in two directions at once.
(The casting of Farrell, who played Alexander the Great for Oliver Stone, is a subtle joke in itself).
Was that a threat or a subtle joke, on the part of the Chinese military, about the muzzling of a free press?
And it's funny – and more likely to attract fans of Gervais and Merchant than this more subtle joke-light trailer might.
Subtle jokes abound, as do social and political subtexts, in the interplay between the handmade and the machine-made, design and accident, labeling and value.
The cast, which includes Bill Nighy and Rufus Sewell, acts out familiar thought experiments from that realm, like the Prisoner's Dilemma and the Speeding Trolley, with plenty of jocular asides and subtle jokes inserted.
He admits that at Venus Records he used to create wall displays of albums that looked alike, and play subtle jokes like putting James Taylor records in the Iggy Pop section.
As I read "The Fortunes," I wondered what someone unfamiliar with this history would make of a novel that was so meticulously and steadfastly Chinese-American — whether other readers would appreciate the allusions and subtle jokes.
