Sentence examples for subtle ruse from inspiring English sources

It's a delectably subtle ruse but it won't work.

Needless to say, the drivers did not fall for the subtle ruse.

Then, after this infinitely subtle ruse fails to convince the public, he backtracks and announces that he will wear a tailcoat after all.

But it didn't take Bletchley's finest to decrypt this opus as a subtle ruse intended to hint at a compelling comparison with a wild-but-brilliant Conservative maverick who progressed to power while earning lavishly from journalism.

The controversial tax reform itself epitomises the fiscal tricksiness with which, as chancellor, Mr Brown raised money through subtle but cumulatively burdensome tax ruses.

Ms. Benesch grandly exudes vanity, from her subtle asides about the fading image of youth to her insistence that any ruse is all about her.

"The Unfathomable Ruse"?

Why this elaborate ruse?

Fraud, cheat, deception, ruse -.

But that was a ruse.

The ruse worked.