Sentence examples for tough and subtle from inspiring English sources

"Very tender and adorable, yet morally tough and subtle, and with lots of will and self-control," was how Murdoch described her.

Sandrine Piau is a tough and subtle Despina; Lenneke Ruiten (Fiordiligi) and Kate Lindsey (Dorabella) are sinewy, supple voices who strut and flinch in their singing as well as their acting.

But if he is something of a footnote in the history of French cinema — frequently overshadowed by contemporaries like Jean-Pierre Melville and the attention-devouring rebels of the New Wave — Sautet was also an original, a tough and subtle dramatist with a gift for teasing moral complications out of straightforward genre scenarios.

Mr. Edgerton, a tough and subtle actor, is reduced to mumbling and looking at his feet, as if waiting for the camera to go somewhere else, while Ms. Garner mugs and emotes enough for both of them and the rest of the cast too.

Somehow, this tenderest of the tender slice came out a little tough and the subtle flavor was overwhelmed by the marinara and white wine sauce.

Achieving all that, and maintaining public support if the going gets tough, is a huge and subtle challenge, one that is just beginning.

For Raitt, slide is a second voice, much like her first: tough, physical, subtle, and frankly emotional.

For Raitt, slide guitar is a second voice, much like her first: tough, physical, subtle, and frankly emotional.

Ya'alon is a tough but subtle operator, and he is known to be more reluctant than Netanyahu and Barak to launch a bombing campaign against Iran.

Wilder takes the Broadway play, as well as the genteel camaraderie familiar from the British POW films, shakes it all up, makes it tougher, funnier, cruder and subtler.

This is subtle thinking and subtle art.