Sentence examples for subtle send from inspiring English sources

"Axe In The Deep" was Sanford's subtle send up to his roots in nerd culture.

Characteristically, they are not his most savage political inventions but more subtle send-ups of the bourgeoisie he made when censorship prevented him from direct attacks.

The scripts are full of exchanges of knowing glances and the subtle sending of disapproving signals whenever the conversation takes an undesirable direction.

Was the banquet truly an affectionate homage to the artist who produced exotic jungle scenes by studying the flora in Paris' botanical gardens, or was it a subtle send-up of a naif so spacey and gullible he nearly went to prison because he had been drawn into a bank swindle when he thought he was doing a friendly favor?

The subtle message sent to all Yankees was that positions were no longer being given on the basis of merit.

The goal of the Hermes satellite would be to pick out the subtle signals sent by many of these tiny transmitters at once, all from an orbit 300 miles overhead.

Henry compares bank regulation to plumbing but has to be reminded about a leak in his house; Charlotte challenges Henry to say that the land being sold "doesn't stand for something, for a rot more pervasive"; and Haslett is none too subtle about sending the characters off on reveries in order to convey information or fill in back stories.

But Schneier warns that education isn't any more likely to solve the problem, because users have no direct incentive: A subtle zombie sends spam at other users without victimizing its host.

As we age, our body becomes less subtle at sending us signals.

Shoe choice is a subtle signal sent by the man wearing them.

Higher doses of an EDC may knock the whole hormone system out, whereas low doses can interfere with the normal system in more subtle ways, sending things in strange directions.