Example sentences for: subtlety

How can you use “subtlety” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In general, it would begin to appear that as a higher diversity of entities come into existence  entities that are then necessarily more complex  their modes of being in nonequilibrium conditions increase in diversity and subtlety.

  • Holbrooke lacks subtlety, modesty, and discretion.

  • These late scenes are over the top, as mean and reductive as editorials in a tabloid, and they nearly extinguish the moral subtlety of what's gone before.

  • By adopting the ironic stance and deliberately infiltrating many of his own whimsical inaccuracies into his critique, he in effect preempts at once the charge of tu quoque . Consider how he balances that opening irony with a corresponding subtlety at the very end of the article.

  • His case against feminist Holocaust studies can be reduced to three main objections: 1) Alter's argument, made with less subtlety; 2) a somewhat crankish concern that the "object of such exercises" as feminist Holocaust scholarship is "to sever Jewish women, in their own minds, from their families as well as from the larger Jewish community"; and 3) the sense that such treatment violates taste, decorum, and "human decency."


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