Sentence examples for subtly terrible from inspiring English sources

That it is food for thought is enough — that it has the potential to be subtly terrible is enough.

Incidentally, the cover is mocked up none too subtly to suggest some kind of terrible rivalry between Aniston and Angelina Jolie about their imminent weddings.

Satrapi's narrative glides along with the terrible momentum of a myth, and her artwork becomes subtly less realistic and more iconic as Nasser Ali drifts into delirium.

Once a terrible accident befalls Wikus, we are at his side and under his skin, and "District 9" subtly shifts from speculative science fiction to zombie bio-horror and then, less subtly, turns into an escape-action-chase movie full of explosions, gunplay and vehicular mayhem.

It is subtly lighted.

Some designs work subtly.

"Mafiosi work subtly.

And he works subtly.

A subtly sophisticated wine.

The shift happened subtly.

Flowery, perfumed, subtly tart.