subtlety

Example Sentences

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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

As the years pass, she lets the shadows inside Kayleen emerge with stealthy subtlety.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Even Zillah’s gauzy constructions appear to me to have a confidence and subtlety, an assurance, that my own paintings lack: in this context my pictures are too highly finished, too decorative, too merely pretty.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood