Sentence examples for the almost subtle from inspiring English sources

It's fun to notice the almost subtle Japanese flair that flashes throughout the chaotic onslaught of of strobing shapes and colors.

And finally, there's the latest, almost subtle attack -- or that's it time to move beyond "ruin porn" and talk about what's next.

Looking at the details of other robberies blamed on the gang shows that the Harry Winston job, despite the violence — some workers were struck in the head — was almost subtle by comparison.

(Rascal Flatts, taking the same tack with "Dancing on the Ceiling," manages to make the original seem tasteful, almost subtle. A few others, like Jason Aldean and Tim McGraw, can't quite transcend the material).

The one moment in which Simon Kinberg's script becomes almost subtle is when the couple have to go to their boring neighbours' party and one of the dull wives plonks a baby into the lap of the uncomfortable Angelina.

But with a seemingly perpetual massive trade surplus vis-à-vis the U.S., won't China's so-called leverage be even greater at the end of 2012 and at the end of 2013 and at the end of...? But increasingly, China's abusive trade practices are almost subtle compared to what is going on in its shipyards and aircraft manufacturing plants.

They're almost subtle.

The first two pages of "The Fisherman" explore the subtle, almost extrasensory signs of seasonal change: "If you have an abstract turn of mind, you tend to measure the approach of winter by the sun.... Or, on the other hand, you might measure the approach of winter by the ice, which seems a more direct, less abstract and mathematical way of going about it".

Corinth seems to have attacked the canvas with paint, unconcerned about nuance, yet creating all sorts of subtle layers beneath the almost harsh, smeary surface.

It is easy to see why filmmakers might be captivated by her, and yet the approach is almost too subtle for a story whose gruesomeness seems so immeasurable and whose particulars are known by too few.

"The Portuguese Nun" has wit and feeling, though the wit is at times almost imperceptibly subtle and the feeling somewhat stylized.