Sentence examples for subtle to be from inspiring English sources

The old line about politics being showbiz for ugly people feels too subtle to be anything but outdated.

Indeed, according to Burleigh, he was simply too subtle to be appreciated today, in "this age of the resonant sound bite and ubiquitous rent-a-moralists".

They float across categories, now memoir, now poetry, now philosophy, now criticism, too fleet and witty and subtle to be pinned down.

"Untitled, Cranberry Island, 21 July , 1997 catches the delicate gradations of gray in a sunset sky, an array of clouds almost too subtle to be drawn.

And the relationship between mother and son is too charged and too subtle to be conveyed on screen in mere prose.

(Six years ago Ms. Foster acknowledged "my beautiful Cydney" at a Hollywood power breakfast, which also seemed too subtle to be recorded as the definitive coming out).

There is no way for a new president-no matter how compassionate, diplomatic, or subtle-to be assured of the loyalty of an inherited senior team over the long term otherwise.

Perhaps there's a subtle conversation to be had about this.

Or that the flavor is so subtle as to be barely perceptible.

As a child, I had been taught, in subtle ways, to be leery of the police.

It's subtle enough to be coy and lets him know that he is on your mind.