Sentence examples for subtle ploy from inspiring English sources

One subtle ploy was to break my knee so that I could roll over stampeding feet in a wheelchair, while poking folks with my crutches.

Dextrously shifting gears, Penn suddenly asks, "Can we talk about drugs?" — a subtle ploy to get Castro to deliver another uninterrupted discourse on the wrongs of the United States.

It was--quite simply--this: Tony Blair had "flattened his bouffant hair style" in a not so subtle ploy to woo women who were turned off by his previous coiffure.

This subtle ploy will make them forget the issue they are all charged up about.

The stories of his outraged behaviour in restaurants and hotels, his subtle ploys for getting a drink when he needed one, become real for the children, too.

As you are aware, advertisers must maintain particular care in crafting authentic, legally viable and responsible marketing messages, as each year American consumers lose billions of dollars as a result of deceptive marketing and false ads running the gamut from blatant lies and fraudulent scams to subtle ploys intended to confuse and mislead to video programming featuring Kayne West.

But since attorneys can't ask questions like "Have you ever pumped up your stock price while you knew your business was going bust?" they have to devise subtler ploys.

He also helped lead the company into wide-ranging support for tennis (a lifelong personal interest) and the arts, with millions spent each year to underwrite concerts, ballets and exhibitions -- provoking criticism that such sponsorship was a subtle and unethical advertising ploy.