Sentence examples similar to subtle up from inspiring English sources
It's run by an Italian family who are very subtle up-sellers - ask for scrambled eggs on toast, and they'll ask if you want mushrooms with that, or tomatoes, and you end up ordering a huge breakfast.
The Soviets were more subtle, building up a young unknown called Kim Il-sung: a former, minor anti-Japanese guerrilla in Manchuria, who'd fled to Siberia in 1941.
But Mr. Mendonça, a former film critic whose command of the medium is both formidable and subtle, is up to something more than the usual upstairs-downstairs comedy of colliding destinies in a small place.
Instead of trying to present all the sender's details in the same screen where you're viewing the original message, CloudMagic displays a more "subtle" heads up, the company explains.
"Axe In The Deep" was Sanford's subtle send up to his roots in nerd culture.
If you are allowed to wear subtle make up, wear it however you like - just make sure not to put on too much foundation.
Subtle make-up is usually worn during the day, or at work, while evening make-up can be more glamorous.
His subtle close-ups of mundane things that people want to get rid of represent the antithesis of passionate collecting.
They derided the rule of double effect in this context as a rationalization, a subtle cover-up, of what they called "slow euthanasia".
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.
