Sentence examples for subtly underscored from inspiring English sources
The phrase "subtly underscored" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to indicate that something is emphasized in a subtle or understated way. Example: "The author's use of imagery subtly underscored the theme of isolation throughout the novel."
There's pork skin in aspic ($4.95), the porcine flavor subtly underscored with five spice.
The observation subtly underscored the importance of optics when it comes to small apartments.
Robinson's use of the campy images, divorced from their original commercial and narrative contexts, predates Prince's "Nurse" paintings by a couple of decades, a fact subtly underscored by this recuperative show.
A number of political experts and consultants said today that the announcement could subtly underscore one area where Mr. Riordan is considered vulnerable, his age.
The somber palette, the eerie, shuddering music and the echoing silences between speeches subtly underscore the play's proto-existentialist underpinnings.
But at the end, the quality of one dancer's gentle touch on the other's back suddenly but subtly underscores that one is black and the other white.
And the Colette window would be a yawn were it not that it subtly underscores a power shift in fashion, away from designers and back to buyers, who are beginning to reclaim some of their traditional power and to edit collections again.
Variety magazine noted that "the casting of actors like Hoffman and McAdams (the German accents jar for about a minute before the actors vanish into their roles) subtly underscores the universality of this particular story".
Jenny Foldenauer costumes the men in simple skirts and capes, the women in tunics, subtly underscoring the idea of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances by malicious rulers and capricious gods.
When the recent immigrant then goes home and writes eloquent letters about his English lessons to his wife back in China (in Chinese, of course, though recited in English), the necessity of language to human connection is subtly, touchingly underscored.
Details matter here: both masters dwell on the awful lack of decent food and drink, but perhaps only Powell could manage so subtly to underscore the astonishing importance of sleep deprivation as a part of the misery of war.
