Example sentences for: subtlety

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

  • I've also come to appreciate the subtlety of Miller's critique a bit more over the past few days.

  • 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.

  • That subtlety shouldn't cause him too much distress, because the press's fascination with itself is a bonanza for its self-proclaimed scourge.

  • Only Frank Kermode defends Mailer; in an erudite reading of the book in the New York Review of Books, he attributes to Mailer the subtlety of a theologian--whose "powerful mind," however, "works in a specialized way, not by theological argument but by telling or retelling a story."

  • There is much more richness and subtlety to its content and argument than we can cover here.


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