Sentence examples for subtly funny from inspiring English sources

His paintings are smart, subtly funny and poetically beguiling.

But her subtly funny dialogue and the vivid, truthful characters keep the play grounded in prickly emotional authenticity.

But when you buy into an blogging autodidact — especially one as subtly funny and dark as Mr. Romenesko — you take the bitter with the sweet.

He disliked the personal - he had what he called "autobiographophobia" and wrote a subtly funny one-paragraph autobiography, which Malcolm reproduces.

Mr. Brawer is clearly older than 16, but he's subtly funny as Rasheed, who bridles under the largess of a patrician white man whose guilt-driven motives he intuits perhaps a little too wisely for Lawrence's comfort.

The lacerating insults and abrasive deflections that Catherine (Moss) and Virginia (Waterston) fling at each other, the horrifyingly insensitive verbal aggressions of Catherine's former boyfriend James Kentucker Audleyy) and Virginia's new lover, Rich Patrick Fugitt), are as subtly funny as they are disturbingly painful.

Like the best Ween songs, these ones are both obviously funny and subtly so.

He then adds, in a manner that is both diplomatic and subtly barbed: "In a funny sort of way, it's Starbucks.

Nicol Williamson (obituary, 27 January), like John Osborne, was everything you didn't expect: very funny, sophisticated, subtly affectionate, wickedly observant, as interested in other people as a brilliant mimic has to be.

Most of her observations are funny and subtly embarrassing; it turns out you don't have to tip the cable guy, and wearing black does make one feel "somehow better protected".

And Amy Rosoff, with a spot-on British accent, portrays a subtly conniving new hire with a pert, funny touch.