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What does subtlety mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The quality or fact of being subtle.
  2. (countable) An instance of being subtle, a subtle thing, especially a subtle argument or distinction.
  3. (countable) An ornate medieval illusion dish or table decoration, especially when made from one thing but crafted to look like another.
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Considering the artful subtlety found elsewhere, this is a let-down, stripping the film of any resonance with the issues at hand.
Author and photographer tell the story of this place through its pavements with love, subtlety, and layered richness of knowledge.
There are kinds of subtlety and metaphorical allusiveness that are easier to achieve in comics than in novels.
One may jib, like George Orwell, at Greene's belief that a brutally stupid gangster is capable of intellectual subtlety.
Never an actor to employ a degree of subtlety, Brian is more like a bull in a china shop.
Unfortunately, the subtlety, range and freshness of her work has too often been ignorantly made light of.

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