subtlety

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It is also true that there is a subtlety to these conventions.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

It follows 55-year-old Palestinian cab driver Hassan, played with warmth and subtlety by Ehab Salami, as he ferries passengers through the nocturnal streets of Berlin.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

This is a subtlety of Washington that Americans weren’t taught in elementary school, and I don’t think the A.I. bots have quite figured it out.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026

But the bigger part only allowed for more subtlety as Liu sought to inhabit someone made to feel small by her circumstances, who still doesn’t shrink from doing right by her child.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

He didn’t notice—for even the wisest of the old forget, sometimes, the care and subtlety of the young—that Christopher had made no promise.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell