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subtlety

noun as in a fine distinction

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noun as in delicacy

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Throughout the museum, scholarship was diminished and subtleties disappeared.

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Roe and Nechita, who don’t play their roles with any subtlety.

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Another review said Roy explores urban alienation with "remarkable subtlety", praising her deliberately slow, observational style of filming which allows the "emotional terrain" of the characters to emerge with clarity.

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Working this way requires a deep sensitivity to subtlety, to decay, resonance, extremes, and to how sound lives after it’s been struck.

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Already, Tipping is as allergic to subtlety as a forward pass right down the middle on the 50-yard line — or whatever football play would be a really obvious one.

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