How to Use subtlety in a Sentence

subtlety

noun

• The pianist performed with subtlety and passion.
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• The conviction of flavors and subtlety in the palate reminds us of her.
  — Yola Robert, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• The wine aged for 10 months in French-oak barrels, with only 26 percent new, so as not to overwhelm the subtlety of the Pinot.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2021
• The iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max offer more detail and more subtlety in the lighting around the puddle to the left, and the city lights in the distance look less blown out.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
• More than a decade after their takeover of the dance scene, the depth and subtlety of Paradise Again reflects that the time taken was worth it.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 15 Apr. 2022
• Tell me about the subtleties of what was in your script that wasn’t dialogue — movements, body language, all that.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 16 May 2024
• The expressive subtlety of that moment comes back around in one of the more emotional scenes in the movie.
  — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• And the subtlety is the reason why many companies may fail to notice.
  — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
• That a chatbot could understand the subtleties of humor and then convey them clearly in its own words was revelatory in Hinton’s view.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
• However, these types of comparative analyses failed because most of my students were not developed enough as writers to analyze the subtleties of meaning or evaluate style.
  — Victoria Livingstone, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024