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Sentence Examples There are kinds of subtlety and metaphorical allusiveness that are easier to achieve in comics than in novels. I only answered by an incredulous smile, which, for all his monastic subtlety, struck him as the expression of a young girl's coyness. This lends an air of deliberate camp to a play that needs no such favours, and which would amuse with more subtlety in their absence. An ability to influence with subtlety and diplomacy should not go unmentioned. But a certain number, following in the footsteps of the Latin Facetiae, harbour a sense of wit and subtlety beneath apparent crudity. Franchomme had a Stradivari cello but held the bow above the frog, making for flexibility and subtlety of tone rather than robustness. The rhythmic polyphony and shifting patterns build, with a Stravinskian blend of wildness and subtlety, to memorable climaxes. The term is of course a mere English translation which may fail to catch the subtlety of the original. By doing so, they are making a political point, albeit with sledge-hammer subtlety. The most successful schemes are distinguished by the complexity and subtlety of their response to these historical and contextual elements. Carefully blending amorous subtlety with a more solid and dense desire, the band sound solid and fluent on stage. This was not simply due to their technical excellence, but their subtlety and force in emotional expression. Most significantly, for all that they must be applied with subtlety of understanding, these techniques are fixed. I could forgive the fetishizing of martyrdom if the film displayed a hint of subtlety or emotional resonance. Excellent dialogue and wryly amusing situations were wrung hard and without subtlety by the two main actors. A lot of women don't want to hurt a guy's feelings so they tend to be vague, but subtlety is lost on most men. All the texture and subtlety of the script are brought out by a magnificent cast. The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, sing with subtlety as well as grace, in a CD well worth investigating. A new way of imagining the song glimmers and vanishes before the chorus, as the subdued arrangement loses its subtlety and its way. But this subtlety is swept aside in performances that are simply too hard-driven. Show More Sentences Let's have a bit of subtlety and sophistication here, qualities that postmodernists are always urging us to adopt. Mercury rules the animal spirit and is the author of subtlety, tricks, devices, and perjury. In my estimation, Turner's psychohistorical reading has eclipsed the philosophical subtlety of Newman's project. Of course the historic present may be used with greater knowingness and subtlety. The sheer variety, delicacy, subtlety and compulsive fertility of her work is awe-inspiring. Such scenes suggest the larger problem with the film, which is chiefly one of subtlety. The work lacks subtlety, rolling out the issues that our poor heroine must face as if on an assembly line. It is meticulously incised with an image startling in its sureness of line, composition and structure, and magnificent in its subtlety. The organ at St. Paul's has a swell box inside the swell box, allowing greater subtlety in dynamics. Considering the artful subtlety found elsewhere, this is a let-down, stripping the film of any resonance with the issues at hand. If this is classicism, it's classicism at its highest artistic point of subtlety and complexity. Author and photographer tell the story of this place through its pavements with love, subtlety, and layered richness of knowledge. With chiming percussion to the fore, transparency and subtlety are the characteristics of the orchestration. Chinese teas are always popular around the world for their perfumed aroma, subtlety, delicate flavour and amazing health benefits. Unfortunately, the subtlety, range and freshness of her work has too often been ignorantly made light of. Never an actor to employ a degree of subtlety, Brian is more like a bull in a china shop. The rest of the album isn't bad, coasting from lite jazz subtlety to wah-wah guitar-enhanced antsiness and back to lite jazz at the end. The playing encompassed subtlety, ardor, menace and rage, all with an admirable polish. No subtlety, no finesse, just 30 guys showing up, loaded for bear and ready to die. His namesake suite is an example of the subtlety of the building's interior design. Show More Sentences The workshop left me in a profound state of wonder at the subtlety and simplicity of this healing approach. The whole idea of getting the message across through animals and relationships with people is full of subtlety. But the direction is often crude and lacks the subtlety and genuine insights of his later work. The subtlety of the fragmentary relics of ancient hominid fossil evidence was astonishing. Demonstrate, with less or greater subtlety, that you've actually done this reading via hundreds of endnotes, footnotes, and superscripts. I must have missed the subtlety and again, no offence was intended on my part. This is the most delicately flavoured rhubarb there is, cosseted and pampered to keep its subtlety. In what may be the ultimate feat of subtlety and indirection, they want to control the behemoth by appealing to its conscience. Gillian Anderson is supremely self-contained, demonstrating a subtlety in her performance that mirrors the style of the film. Perhaps, though, under the donnish joking they won't notice a great deal of subtlety. The tunes are a better blend of melodic grace supported by delicious twists of harmonic subtlety. Linear simplicity, naive spontaneity, subtlety of tones and interesting techniques mark his abstracts. Once I dumped my preconceptions I was able to appreciate the spare subtlety and deep beefiness of the northern variety. It appeals because it evinces subtlety, equidistance between two extreme Bad Positions, and moral passion. So do dactyls, and neither of these meters is particularly associated with subtlety, but Finch sets out to change that. She makes great use of pianissimi and the way she controls the legato gives her performances a subtlety not often heard. However, what is there in linguistic gravity, romance and tragedy is slightly lacking in subtlety. One may jib, like George Orwell, at Greene's belief that a brutally stupid gangster is capable of intellectual subtlety. It was as if he was planning his next move, with the subtlety and care of an admiral commanding a fleet of warships. The structural subtlety of the concerto, with its conjoined movements, was adroitly handled by both orchestra and soloist. Show More Sentences As you can see, this is already shaping up to be a winner for subtlety and rapier wit. Even during rather tense scenes, the music was sickly sweet, laid on thick with little subtlety. The focus is certainly on subtlety, with easy simple shapes, and feminine silhouettes forming most of the collection. Here's hoping the subtlety won't be lost in the upcoming avalanche of boffo Christmas fare. There is a complex visual interplay between its subtlety and the boldness of the stripes flanking it. To the uninitiated, the last thing you can expect to find in a Bollywood film is subtlety. The numerous space and controlled organisations of poetic colours lend subtlety to his part collage-part paintings. If post-rock has proved anything, it's that subtlety and bombast aren't mortal enemies. The author does not exactly caricature her characters, but she paints them in without much subtlety. He subsequently dropped much of the textural subtlety in favour of breathless Cuban and funk populism. Gallic wit and subtlety are perfectly married to Russian soul in this performance. Thanks to emoji, the subtlety of first generation emoticons could be lost on younger generations. Just the same, they are worth hunting out for their subtlety of flavour and spicy nuances. His paintings tell a story, with their depth and subtlety continuing to satisfy and inspire after countless viewings. The subtlety of the humour is lost on the viewer if he is not aware of this implication. At least there was now some quality in the hitting, even if subtlety remained notably absent. Only the most inept of dramatists could deliver a romance so completely lacking in depth and subtlety. You can also employ gentle persuasion and subtlety to excellent effect. Political or not, shown in New York or Budapest, it is a worthy achievement composed with taste and subtlety. A dish called the Tidal Pool has a subtly tinged grace of oysters, urchin, wakame, and wood-ear mushroom, but its ethereal subtlety matches nothing on the menu. Show More Sentences In his opulent maroon suit, dickens flaunts his fame and fortune with so little subtlety he makes Kanye West appear modest. Everything about director, Steven Brill's movie, smacks of desperation, though, given the laboured quality of most of the jokes, and the overall lack of subtlety. This impact derives from its subtlety, ambiguity and non-literal nature. Now, however, we can appreciate the subtlety and unexpectedness of his framing, and the complex interplay he so often achieves between anecdote and form. She brings Griet to textured life with the subtlety of her posture, the restrained musculature of her face, and the subdued excitement that propels her movements. But even more surprising than the evilness of these characters is their outrageous lack of subtlety. The hummus is subtlety itself, thin-textured and nutty with sesame tahini. The violence was turned up to 11, but the message could still have been handled with more subtlety. Without context, subtlety, and commentary, a parody begins to look eerily like the scenario it is attempting to skewer. If the title contains subtlety, or a play on words, or something that Germans are unlikely to be able to easily translate, they may go for a different English language title. The more Argyle wine I drink, the more I learn to appreciate its subtlety and character, the differences and similarities from vintage to vintage, and its terroir. He has none of the subtlety and nuance of black conservative academics such as Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams. But I know from everyday dealings with people dealing with difficult moral situations that the subtlety or complexity of the issues they face can be almost overwhelming. On the very first episode of that venerable program, Jock Ewing gave his son, J.R., a tart-tongued lesson about tact and subtlety. It's like being ambushed by a rugby tragic who can recite meaningless statistics and All Blacks anecdotes with all the subtlety of a rolling maul. Liszt developed a physical virtuosity for the instrument and transcribed for it, sacrificing musical subtlety to an astonishing mechanical technique. He felt an affinity for the subtlety of the slide trombone and related to its connecting influence and to its relatively low profile as a lead instrument. Ruthless editing would have crafted sharp-edged form out of the three hours of exhausting overabundance, infused subtlety into unrelieved shrillness. Symbolism is present but it doesn't suffer from the sledgehammer subtlety disease with which Hollywood is stricken, rather it serves more as icing on the cake. Pure invective, unmitigated by any sophistication, subtlety or decorum. Show More Sentences The Amernet foursome evoked the vibrancy of Spanish guitars, the throbbing energy of urban street life, and the subtlety and poetry of a great fresco. The basic idea and story structure are fine, but they're executed with such cack-handedness and lack of subtlety that it's simply impossible to care. With subtlety off the menu and with little variation in tempo, all the better for head-banging, it was Maiden by numbers, but great for singing along to. Costner's worst trait as a director, besides his ham-handed use of symbolism like precious china or fluffy white puppies, is a disregard for subtlety. In fact, she manages to address most things with subtlety and dignity! Not exactly anyone's choice for purveyors of subtlety and wit. Is Gallic subtlety any match for the brute force of History? Today's methods are wider ranging, able to analyse with greater subtlety. Cheapness and cheesiness are what really count, not messages or subtlety. Extremely pure and flavoursome, the ripe citrus fruit is creamy and delicate with a subtlety and complexity you don't normally expect at this price. Unrelenting tosh, it mixes dodgy accents with over-ripe dialogue, hammy performances and the kind of pell-mell pace that leaves little room for subtlety or reflection. But, whatever one may think of the arguments of the earlier chapters, few readers will fail to be struck by the verve, imaginativeness and subtlety of the later ones. Yet television's soundbite culture, its inbuilt tendency to trivialise, is seen as being in direct opposition to the complexity and subtlety of the law. He traced Piero's sources in Sienese and Florentine painting and speculated on his influence in Ferrara and Venice with unparalleled delicacy and subtlety. They have many qualities, but subtlety is not their strong suit. The directness of the message, which is somewhat bluntly conveyed, is a somewhat disappointing end to an extraordinary novel that is full of subtlety and cunning. This insight contains many dimensions and varying degrees of profundity and subtlety, which in a sense, can never be adequately described with language. Avoiding the temptation to simply coast on her powerful voice, Case eschews the obvious and instead imbues her music with subtlety and atmosphere. This is all done with the subtlety of someone wielding a jackhammer. Convinced that subtlety was of no importance, he restricted his dynamic range to mezzo forte and louder. Show More Sentences With great talent, elegance and subtlety, it condones and romanticizes euthanasia, treachery and adultery. I do not see any sign of intellectual power or perception or grasp or subtlety in his work or himself. They display great subtlety and demonstrate Gros's gifts as a marvelous reader and explicator of nuances and difficulties. As he climbed into the car, his recce of the space behind the seats was still a little too obvious despite best efforts at subtlety. Reinhardt's subtlety makes us look until we can't look any more. Kelly, however, goes a step further and abandons any pretence of subtlety. Jeremy Dibble dissects the solo songs and uncovers a remarkable subtlety of motivic interconnection and tonal argument. Not published until 1920, it is now widely recognised as an English novel of great dramatic force and intellectual subtlety. Zarfian surrealism without Zarfian skill or subtlety. Beats reader over the head a bit with emotions. But this line's assonating echo, by its subtlety and precision, is to my mind the finest translational effect of the whole passage. There was a subtlety, an unshouting elegance about her, that was especially attractive in one so young. With all his usual subtlety, he quietly fixed the problem before anyone else noticed it. Popular music, most hymns, semipopular music, and most folk music lack subtlety. The melodies are obvious and easily comprehended. This is exciting, high-strung, Horowitzian pianism that is tempered by unfailing good taste, tonal subtlety, and a true sense of Lisztian style. The rightmindedness, the virtue, and the subtlety of the interpreter became the new key to the validity of poetry in the Platonic republic. In this paper, I argue that there is a much greater degree of subtlety in the moral thought of Thomas Hobbes and a comparison of him and the ancient atomist, Epicurus. Some rulers handled this arrangement with less subtlety than others. Putting a word earlier in the sentence increases the emphasis on it, but this subtlety would only be particularly obvious to a native Latin speaker. It shows a figure representing, though not resembling, Reynolds, seated in front of a cascade of prints from which Reynolds had borrowed with varying degrees of subtlety. But in the Daniels and Sandy missionary effort to carefully unpack and unclutter the complexities of black manhood, they compile a book that begs for subtlety. Show More Sentences Ironically, too, the wine was a yeared Bollinger of almost carnal subtlety and while Sutcliffe's stomach quailed his palate hungered for the treat. Examples from Classical Literature And yet, when one has said this, one has failed to express the national geist in all its subtlety. The Jansenists, however, endeavored to meet the Papal condemnation with casuistic subtlety. With all his adroitness and subtlety, he could get no inkling of their intentions. Such a subtlety would be very much in character with the zenonian dialectic. He has a woman's subtlety of insight, a child's concreteness of imagination. However, if the man worked with subtlety, the sea likewise worked with subtlety. To reason thus is to put subtlety into the cathedra of common sense, to bewilder vision by legerdemain. To reason thus is to put subtlety into the cathedra of common-sense, to bewilder vision by legerdemain. I think that you will allow that chenier and I played our parts with some subtlety. These gods, with their moralities and legalities and intellectual subtlety, will go under and be starved out of existence. It is impossible to give an idea of the refinement and subtlety of all her transformations. It was evident that this excess of caution proceeded from an experience that no subtlety on the part of their enemies could deceive. But in a matter like this, subtlety appeals to subtlety, and without imagination no man can follow another into these halls. I was very much impressed, and not for the first time, by my guardian's subtlety. The charms of their subtlety passed by her unappreciated, and she only received them as inimical sounds which meant that anger ruled. The fact is there is some subtlety in the texture of these things. The story of the subtlety of Tezcatlipoca is variously told. The doctor's mind pursued its own schemes with Machiavellian subtlety. The subtlety of his wit does not affect the uprightness of his character. A bizarre title, certainly, and starts off hushed before the rhythm marches its way through with all the subtlety of a goose-step. Show More Sentences No possibility here of subtlety and less of psychologic morbidity. In the syllogistic system he found only subtlety and arid ingenuity. She shows in this an almost Johnsonian confidence, but also, surely, a lack of subtlety and receptivity. I am Ulysses son of Laertes, renowned among mankind for all manner of subtlety, so that my fame ascends to heaven. This subtlety was past the vision of the donator of the Dabney House. Cuthbert was, upon the whole, the more liberal-minded, though, with greater subtlety, he had not so much heart. An example of this subtlety can be seen in the face of Signore Arnolfini and in the folds of his exquisitely rendered fur cape. He had plied the beadle's wife with sophistical reasoning and subtlety. They bestowed upon him every beauty of person and every subtlety of wit. And this notion of his was not any proof of want of subtlety on his part. No wonder the Pict had fallen victim to his own sort of subtlety. Look attentively at the duels and the hand-to-hand combats, how superior the Italians are in strength, dexterity, and subtlety. It was strength pitted against subtlety, and the match was a merry one. Further, an infelicitous misquotation obscures an interpretive subtlety her argument might have fruitfully pursued, but which remains unrecognized. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of subtlety? Words that rhyme with subtlety What is the plural of subtlety? What is the adverb for subtlety? What is the adjective for subtlety? What is the noun for subtlety? Translations for subtlety Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words subtleties subtlest subtler subtleness subtlely subtle subtly subtonic subtopia subtopic subtotal subtotals 8-letter Words Starting With s su sub subt subtl subtle subtlet