subtle

Winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, still among the most prestigious prizes any movie can claim, “Fjord” aims for both a quiet, subtle power and the directness of a sledgehammer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

But Mull’s highly accomplished work on canvas, held by some very esteemed institutions, shows the influence of people like Robert Rauschenberg and Anselm Kiefer and combines surrealism with subtle social commentary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The findings offer an early warning that ecological systems can begin changing in subtle ways long before species disappear entirely.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

These include having software that smooths out rapid acceleration, adding sound systems and subtle seat vibrations to signal to passengers that the car is moving, and offering adaptive regenerative braking that reduces sudden deceleration.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The keys on Robbie's piano had a subtle unevenness of color and shape, places where bits of the ivory had broken off over time, leaving them looking like a set of bad teeth.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

As particle accelerators became more powerful and detectors grew increasingly sensitive, researchers gained access to subtler physical processes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

It remains to be seen whether “Kitchen Undercover” will rely on prosthetics, fake mustaches or merely the subtler costume of the unrecognized employee.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

It’s a subtler way to exert leverage over the world’s most important oil chokepoint, analysts at J.P.

From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026

While not in any way rabble-rousing, they wage subtler revolutions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

A subtler expression of this geographically varying ease of spread is the phenomenon termed preemptive domestication.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The film won’t win any prizes for the subtlest metaphor of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

In his subtlest, most challenging and finest performance since his Oscar-nominated double role in “Adaptation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

The group’s project, which is sponsored by the Colombian government, focuses on the subtlest, non-motor symptoms of the disease.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2023

"Blinks are one of the subtlest of human movements, so designing mechanisms that can mimic these movements require advanced technology, such as high-precision motors," Ms Kiilavuori explains.

From BBC ● May 4, 2023

It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners of doublethink are those who invented doublethink and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating.

From "1984" by George Orwell