Sentence examples for they were subtle from inspiring English sources
I expected to see more garish traces of the American presence, but they were subtle.
Granted, Mr. Romney got in a few digs at President Obama, but they were subtle and almost funny.
David Angus, conducting the highly capable Wexford Festival Orchestra, spent much time beating in two or four, and if there were syncopations they were subtle beyond notice.
Neither of us had tasted golden beets before; they were subtle, or do I mean underwhelming, in flavour and curiously sweet, and benefited from the goatish accompaniment.
However, I constantly found myself missing Canadian accents and my native culture, as well as being bothered by many other differences--some would say they were subtle, but for me they grated--between life in North Carolina and in the "Great White North".
Even if they were subtle, the censors got it and were always lurking for threatening art.
They are subtle, and they may even benefit women.
They're subtle, of course -- shadings, word choices and structure.
They are subtle studies of the psychology of power and its corruption of human integrity.
It wants to bring you in; if it has goals beyond that, they're subtle.
