Sentence examples for what a subtle from inspiring English sources

Mark Radcliffe's tribute, although providing few new insights into this fragile talent, was nevertheless comprehensive and moving, and showed what a subtle songwriter we had in Barrett.

Almost every piece in "Nothing That Meets the Eye" contains touches that reveal what a subtle writer Highsmith was, even when writing for the drawer.

Beckinsale – more familiar to us of late as the tooled-up super-heroine of the Underworld vampire franchise – reminds us again what a subtle and delicate performer she has always been, giving us a Lady Susan whose desperation to find good husbands for herself and her child is mixed with a beguiling slyness and cast-iron self-assurance.

It mirrored what appears a subtle shift in status.

The line brought a laugh, but some close to the elder Mr. Bush winced at what seemed a subtle dig.

While we've come to expect superhero, wizard and vampire characters to lead immortal lives -- through official sequels, reboots, and unofficial fan-created sex romps -- what about a subtle romantic comedy loved by Generation X and starring a young John Cusack?

Wright's work is not immune from what, in a subtler era, might have been called "errors of taste".

If the evening springs one real and welcome surprise, it is that Lipman gets the opportunity to remind us what a fine and subtle actor she is away from all the comic mugging.

In social circumstances, he still exudes a seductive eroticism you instinctively want to resist, a beguiling exterior disguising you're-not-sure-you-want-to-know-what, and a subtle manipulative sleaziness that I recognised instantly from the novel.

And what a play — swashbuckling and subtle, breathtaking and heartbreaking.

And while his performance as Jonathan Flynn strays now and then into histrionics (not without reason), it also provides a reminder of what a resourceful, unpredictable and subtle actor Mr. De Niro can be.