"subtle reflection" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of thoughtful consideration or contemplation that is delicate, nuanced, or understated. Example: Her eyes narrowed as she gazed out the window, lost in subtle reflection on the events of the past week.
Photographer Hannah Starkey's display of documentary portraits from the 1970s, meanwhile, offers a subtle reflection on gender codes.
There are many historic examples of symbolism in design, but often the symbolism is not a conscious statement so much as a more subtle reflection of style.
Casa Guidi Windows (1851) is a subtle reflection on her experience of Italian politics, and "A Musical Instrument" (1862) is one of the century's most memorable expressions of the difficulty of the poet's role.
Terms like vichara (subtle reflection), viveka (discrimination) and others which are similar to Patanjali's terminology are mentioned, but not described.
The "Decline and Fall" provides an anchor for Pocock's complex and subtle reflections about the intellectual transformation of 18th-century Europe.
With good reason: it is the most accessible and pleasing of Rivette's films, and it may be his greatest in its subtle reflections on the nature of film, story and performance.
The painting also reveals Vermeer's developing interest in illusionism, not only in the inclusion of a yellowish green curtain hanging from a rod stretching across the top of the painting, but also in the subtle reflections of the woman's face in the open window.
Reaction to the events of Monday night, both in Rio and Sao Paulo - where there were smaller demonstrations on this occasion - has been mixed; outright condemnation in political circles and in the mainstream media mixed with more subtle reflections from other groups involved in the protests.
Instead, they are deft and subtle reflections on how her Midwestern upbringing shaped her relationship with theology and language.
His 13th novel, The Feast Of The Goat, published here next month in an English translation by Edith Grossman, may be a subtler reflection of his political baptism.
Perhaps only a novel, such as Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann, can remind us of a need for subtler reflections about our relationship with the planet.
