Example sentences for: subtlety

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

  • Better yet, he brings off the burgeoning of Jack's conscience with exceptional subtlety, beginning with the man's embarrassment at shaking hands at a party with a dupe he once collared and ending with his horror at a slaying he has inadvertently abetted.

  • 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.

  • The split vote on abortion suggests a subtlety among voters that critics of initiatives rarely acknowledge.)

  • The subtlety of the direction is breathtaking, with three moments standing out for me: the bursts of color exploding onto the screen during the opera sequence; the steadicam shot of Daniel Day Lewis entering the post-opera ball (with Joanne Woodward's sublime voice-over); and my favorite, one quick external shot of Pfeiffer's house, showing it seemingly in the middle of nowhere and saying more in a single shot about her social exclusion than other directors could achieve in three pages of dialogue.

  • Here's what worries me: Given the subtlety of the real issues here, what is the chance that this stuff will be decided on its merits?


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