Sentence examples for subtle players from inspiring English sources

The only teachers listed in her program biography, Claude Frank and Robert McDonald, are gentler, more subtle players than she is.

Similarly subtle players thrived in the 60s, keeping time tightly but majestically, such as the Stones' Charlie Watts (try Under My Thumb), Stax Records' linchpin Al Jackson Jr, and the prolific Earl Palmer.

Untypically from such a delicately subtle player the goal was somewhat untidy.

McDormand is a subtle player; she delivers her lines with a sense of sinew, decency, alertness, and ennui.

He is above all a subtle player, a relentless little sprite popping up in all areas nudging, prompting, often taking just one touch, and devastatingly swift in his moments of improvisation.

"They are much subtler players and use more technique than strength," he said.

The tactics are even less subtle when players switch teams.

Compared with the subtle chess players in cold war thrillers, those black-booted Mafia gangsters who gun their BMW motorbikes on the cobbled side streets of the Tverskaya while making their shakedown rounds are drugstore cowboys.

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.

Next season will inevitably see yet more change, however subtle, for the players to adapt to.

Team owners sometimes send subtle signals that players should avoid rocking the boat, to prevent a blizzard of political and social opinion.