How to Use subtlety in a Sentence

subtlety

noun

• The pianist performed with subtlety and passion.
• Like sports fans, news consumers learn the subtleties of the game.
  — Greg Jackson, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• The louder ones have all the subtlety of a kid with a snare drum.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2022
• The subtlety of the shoulder movement, and the head movements and the eyes.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Oct. 2021
• But the video has all the subtlety of a 1990s Calvin Klein campaign.
  — Choire Sicha, Vulture, 13 July 2023
• The subtleties of their art have been enriched by a growth in the forms available to them.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Where Davies is right is that the subtleties of that collapse make for good TV.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 11 July 2019
• The art is in the subtlety, not in the effort of trying to convince.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• There's a lot to take in here, when some subtlety could go a long way.
  — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• The guitarists of Mali are among the best in the world, and the singers are famous for their power and subtlety.
  — Teju Cole, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2020
• The subtlety of the sport — which, as any expert will tell you, is nearly all of the sport — is erased.
  — Jack Hamilton, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• To me, the reason to act is to act with people, and to pick up on all the subtleties of acting with the person.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
• Morrow said the AmeriQueer plays all have a through-line of subtlety.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
• For this garlic bread, the subtlety of the garlic is key.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
• The condenser in the LS-208 has sufficient size to catch the nuance and subtlety of a wide range of sounds.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• That's pretty on the nose as far as metaphors go, but 2020 hasn't offered us much in the way of subtlety.
  — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 5 Oct. 2020
• Kerr’s hope is that watching from the bench will help the first-round pick better understand the subtleties of the NBA game.
  — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• When subtlety didn’t work, the Emmys started to play music to try to shoo Coolidge off the stage.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2022
• My mom played, with great talent and subtlety, the role of a mother and a father.
  — Lily Moayeri, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2022
• Then again, considering Uhry and Brown’s text and lyrics, subtlety need not be the name of the game these days.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
• The Hawks have talked about how the soft-spoken wing can help Bedard not only with his passing but with the subtleties of the game.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Oct. 2024
• This is not a subtlety addressed anywhere in the Bible.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• As an artist, I was fascinated by the extreme side of that, and the subtlety, and had to rush home to sketch it out.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2022
• This largely thanks to Tahar Rahim, who brings a breathtaking subtlety to the part of Sobhraj.
  — Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021
• Austin sank to the floor and found stunning softness and subtlety in its andante.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• No one ever accused Skrillex of subtlety, and this is prime in-your-face fun.
  — Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
• Even in Sichuan cooking, subtlety can be a virtue, and some of Li’s best work was its most restrained.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• The conviction of flavors and subtlety in the palate reminds us of her.
  — Yola Robert, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• James Mangold and his entire team pull off a technical feat from sound, editing, costume, cinematography to production design, down to the subtleties of makeup and hair.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
• Long bitcoin Billionaire investors appear to have already grasped bitcoin’s subtleties and its potential as a hedge against inflation.
  — Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Dec 2024