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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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One may jib, like George Orwell, at Greene's belief that a brutally stupid gangster is capable of intellectual subtlety.
Carefully blending amorous subtlety with a more solid and dense desire, the band sound solid and fluent on stage.
Never an actor to employ a degree of subtlety, Brian is more like a bull in a china shop.
There are kinds of subtlety and metaphorical allusiveness that are easier to achieve in comics than in novels.
Only the most inept of dramatists could deliver a romance so completely lacking in depth and subtlety.
Author and photographer tell the story of this place through its pavements with love, subtlety, and layered richness of knowledge.

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