The phrase 'subtle skill' is a correct and usable part of spoken and written English.
For example, you might use it in a sentence such as, "With his subtle skill, he was able to complete the task with ease."
He conveys Raymond's dependence on routine and habit with subtle skill and fills his performance with expressive detail: one notices the way his hands trace the outline of a menu as if in search of security.
The difference is that, quite apart from using his own intimidating physique to impressive effect, Bony's game is much more about guile, cunning, subtle skill and intuitive positional sense than Altidore's.
"Networking is quite a subtle skill," one scientist told the audience at a recent career seminar in which I participated.
You start to feel the subtle skill.
Interviewing is a subtle skill, and what seemed like casual conversation -- warmth and encouragement spiced up with humor -- was in fact a friendly interrogation.
KEVIN LOVE 6-10, U.Center Center A big man with great hands and subtle skills; also physically imposing in the paint.
Lisa Yuskavage is a leader in the recent development of neo-Old Masterish painting that brings subtle skills to bear on vulgar subjects.
Working her subtle skills, Evans again takes us deep into the psyche of someone who isn't at all what she seems.
But there are subtle skills behind the cerebral creations of Nana Aganovich and Brooke Taylor, and not only in the curving cuts of full sleeves and the sweep of long dresses.
The most subtle skills were the first out: The long, lean Yohji tailoring in his signature black, with a cut away at the inside arm revealing bits of flesh.
Long live Queen Helen!" chanted Marilyn Stasio of Variety, praising Mirren's "subtle skills at adjusting her age, voice, physical presence and state of mind to reflect (or try to hide) her feelings about each of these politicians".
