subtlety

Example Sentences

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“When we started talking with Oscar, he came in with his Prince stuff. When you look at his performance, you see all those subtleties, the physicality, the swagger.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

There’s no subtlety, but would you expect that from the director of the “Evil Dead” movies?

From Los Angeles Times

Because his commentary revolved around the subtleties of their texts, the discussion only began to make sense if you had read them with greater attention than seemed necessary in any other course.

From The Wall Street Journal

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 Literature