Sentence examples for subtlety i from inspiring English sources

Oblivious to the necessity of subtlety, I projected too strongly, if not theatrically, in rehearsal.

"One of the mistakes I made was to think some of the subtlety I included in my reports was coming across".

And much as I admire her subtlety, I found myself hoping she would be a little less evenhanded and say more straightforwardly what she thinks.

Early on, Ai is unnerved by Estraven's subtlety: I thought that at table Estraven's performance had been womanly, all charm and tact and lack of substance, specious and adroit.

But when people like [former Clinton spokesman, now a TV political journalist] George Stephanopoulos ask Dennis Rodman about foreign policy and people are surprised he doesn't understand all the subtlety, I mean who is shocked by that?" Is it journalism in any sense, though, or just a curious, contrived spectacle?

Particularly disappointing is her version of the bawdy "Kitchen Man"; it's calculated in its physical and vocal subtlety, I suppose, but the brazen sexual innuendo of the lyrics is so underwrought in her actions that her costume does much of the work.

I'm always happy to eat Hugh's cooking, but when it comes to truly tasting, to discerning the subtleties I hear others talking about, it's as if my tongue were wearing a mitten.

I'm not saying that dialect is incapable of conveying intellectual subtleties; I'm saying that to be true to the interior tone of reflection you need to know the exact measure of the sound you are reflecting.

The more pictures I make, the more consistent the underlying subtleties I notice.

Not knowing all these legal subtleties, I was surprised to get my first-ever call from the morning show 11 years after Rossum's trial, and long after I'd thought her appeals were exhausted.

The introduction of Pernille, the frankly unlikeable minister for gender, also added another dimension to the storyline: this was a feminism done with more subtlety than I think I've otherwise seen on television.