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How to use subtly in a sentence

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It's not subtly or covertly homophobic for a soap to have a gay character experience homophobia, is it?
Pressures within the academic environment itself may subtly push professors toward viewing their students as would-be clones of themselves.
Valery subtly suggests the progression of evening in the language of the second quatrain's closing lines.
The rhubarb was its usual, delightful self, and its acidulated flavor was beautifully complemented by the subtly sweet cookies.
But slowly, subtly, sometime around midlife, your particular data points start to arrange themselves on the larger human curve.
Each canvas features the richly textured and subtly modulated expanses of color for which he is well known.
These trends are reflected in new high-end mouldings that offer elegant, subtly aged finishes to complement interiors with a European feel.
Wherever we rounded the corner we'd find that someone had subtly rearranged the scenery.
I crossed my fingers as I subtly shoved the iPod behind me and smiled winsomely at him.
But if it were intended as a way of subtly sticking the knife into Mr Cameron, it seems to have failed.
The evaluator is kept blind to the controls to prevent him or her from subtly tipping off the subject, either knowingly or unknowingly.
He seldom applied surface decoration other than subtly toned lacquers to protect the metal against tarnishing.
It's too bad the crowd was so yappy, they missed a subtly twisted, enigmatic show.
His Hilarion was subtly dimensional, not the heavy he's often portrayed, and was honored by the company members with white roses.
The wall or ceiling is subtly pierced, allowing sound to travel through to the soft backing, which absorbs the sound and prevents reverberation.
Each of these is based on some subtly revisionist imagining of history that ring as falsely as Spielberg's film.
The cool indigo of the subtly patterned wallpaper and the basin complements the honey tones of the fir cabinetry and trim.
Colours that were not previously apparent subtly appear as the eye focuses on the space between colours.
The roar of the machines, the echoes within the massive structures, the subtly of whispered voices are all discovered anew here.
The bodice was subtly ruched and the low neckline showed off her creamy neck and shoulders.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The habit was subtly characteristic of the man, because it was so suggestive of gustatory enthusiasm.
The shanghaied man stood facing Schantze, with all the deference of a sailor, yet subtly defiant.
They had mixed so thoroughly and subtly that they merged in her smoothness and her roundness.
And now it was as if subtly, insidiously, her relation to him had become inverted.
The change that had begun subtly, intangibly, was now a terrible and glaring difference.
The mouth rose subtly at the corners and, though bendy never seemed to smile outright, it conveyed the same humor as the eyes.
This earth is made too subtly, of too multiple warp and woof, for prophecy.
It was an explosion, yes, but subtly different from the rending snap of hexynitrate.
His teaching may be condensed into his own motto, foi pour Devoir, translated subtly.
Her aunt had pressed for it, subtly, invisibly, as an older woman is able to do.
Despite the inconclusiveness of these findings, they do suggest that methyl parathion exposure may subtly impair memory, attention, and behavior.
He went about and accused BBC of subtly building an anti-Islamic narrative in its reportorial and coverage of the Ottawa shooting incident.
This gibe subtly acknowledged the garrison state conditions in which the Salt Lake City Olympics were held.
Forestall your opponent by seizing what he holds dear, and subtly contrive to time his arrival on the ground.
But the sense of security has been subtly and indefinably shaken.
Mary subtly evaded the question, while seeming to give unqualified assent.
I cannot express in words how subtly and marvellously it is designed.
The effect on Lucy was not bad, for the faint seemed to merge subtly into the narcotic sleep.
Invisalign moves teeth almost invisibly, moving your teeth subtly and unnoticeably over a period of months until you have the perfect smile.
He turned his big fair face towards me with surprise in his keen glance, which changed subtly into friendliness.
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