Sentence examples for the less subtle from inspiring English sources

One of the less subtle shifts was the pre-match national anthem.

The over-all effect is to compound the comedy of peril, and to suggest that our mortal initiatives, however brave, will usually be humbled and outwitted by the less subtle devices of the brutes.

In the Mail's case – I dare not read the less subtle Sun or Express's take – they focus on Romanians and Bulgarians, on Roma in particular (try Elinor Goodman's informed Radio 4 view here … ), the foreigners most perceived to threaten our way of life in 2014.

Along with the less subtle, and more brutal suppression of black voting rights in the South, and you get just two black members on Capitol Hill in the years after the Second World War.

But the conservative movement and particularly the Tea Party coalition that came out to fight for Bundy Ranch is rife with explicitly racist imagery and rhetoric, from signs depicting Obama as a witch doctor to the less subtle "Put the White Back in the White House" T-shirt that appeared at a Mitt Romney rally in Ohio in 2012.

The first, less subtle but still enticing, is to suppose that the value of the state of affairs originated is at least part of what we would now call the 'ground' of the relevant duty – part of what makes the action a duty.

It also makes the character less subtle; she becomes one-dimensional, bitchier, less intelligent and just as physically violent as she is psychologically.

Creating a tale of multigenerational appeal usually entails combining the exaggerated, less subtle visual vernacular of youngsters with writing laden with meaning for their parents.

So in many ways the visit of Seattle, the team who along with LA have been the best regular season performers since 2009, could not have been timed worse – particularly with Robbie Keane missing, and their attacking hopes mainly resting on the rather less subtle charms of Alan "Snowshoes" Gordon, in his 200th MLS appearance.

The even less subtle pools of dissent are gross really gross but often reside unchallenged next to the more coded criticisms deemed worthy of amplification.

As a London resident, what does he make of the increasingly less subtle attack on nightlife currently spreading through his home city?