subtlety

There’s more subtlety, more shades of gray, and while it doesn’t have a happy ending either, it offers ecstatic redemption.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

But there is a subtlety here: measurements in quantum physics inevitably disturb the system being measured.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Both displayed robust instruments with exceptional clarity, agility in florid passages, and moving sincerity in the many laments, which were ornamented with elegant subtlety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

"When he performs, you can see there's an emotional intelligence and subtlety to what he's bringing to screen," he said.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Did I mention that subtlety is not my mother’s strong suit?

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

“Scarborn” is so Polish, so involved with the subtleties of history and class, that things might get by an American viewer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

Those left in power, he said, are “generally not the sharpest people, they’re not the people who understand the subtleties of diplomacy, of what negotiating with the U.S. is like.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

Few 20th-century writers bred as many imitators as Ernest Hemingway, but his followers rarely matched the subtleties of his deceptively simple style.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

In a chat with his brother Graeme for the Football Association before he left United in 2018, Carrick himself explained the subtleties of a "great pass".

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

It’s a shade too sincere, but the subtleties of irony are often wasted in 13.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins