Sentence examples for subtle unexpected from inspiring English sources

It is audacious, subtle, unexpected but inevitable.

Ms. Morrison also sees a subtle, unexpected reaction.

Which is exactly what made the gold chain the perfect touch: it isn't meant to signify his whole character, just the most subtle, unexpected part of it.

But then, this is choreography filled with subtle, unexpected bits of odd partnering and staging that prefigure Balanchine's later anarchic choreographic urges.

("I love this work," Adrian Searle writes in his Guardian review, giving it five stars. He compares it to work by Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long, and Antony Gormley. "Sunflower Seeds, however, is better. It is audacious, subtle, unexpected but inevitable. It is a work of great simplicity and complexity").

A comic mood would require displays of raillerie (playful teasing), plaisanterie (joking), bons mots (epigrams), traits and pointes (rhetorical figures involving "subtle, unexpected wit", according to Benedetta Craveri, a historian of the period), and, later, persiflage (mocking under the guise of praising).

The spread of electronic tolling is having a subtle and unexpected impact on motoring.

But it is good to remember that war can vex the spirit in subtle and unexpected ways.

In images that are beautiful, subtle, and unexpected, Drake's series, "Becoming Chinese," documents the slow demise of the Uighur's ancient culture.

But Mr Mason and his colleagues have certainly shown how subtle and unexpected the interactions between various parts of the Earth can be.

His notion was to use the developments to create a series of subtle but unexpected connections between east and west, poor and privileged.