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subtlety

the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew (= nuance, shade) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor don't argue about shades of meaning

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Movie subtitles

You've got the subtlety of a bullfrog.
I must commend Your Highness for the subtlety of your scheme.
Oh, Beauty, you have all the subtlety of a battering ram.
Winter's coming on with the subtlety of a snakebite.
No, Cousin Itt, I think this calls for a bit more subtlety.
He was looking, you see, for one minute human error. in a scheme of almost superhuman subtlety.
With subtlety.
I need all my subtlety for the trout.
You make love as you eat, with a good deal of noise and no subtlety.
A subtlety that somehow escapes me.
Politicians require more subtlety than the militia.
You know Brigadier, your methods have. all the refined subtlety of a bull in a china shop.
Not that I expected any subtlety from you.
Henry, you have all the subtlety of a community bedpan.
Although, you haven't the imagination to appreciate its subtlety.
The dignity of man, the beauty of woman, the innocence and subtlety of love, a quack in a dirty cellar, then this.
I don't suppose that kind of subtlety bothers you very much.
Such brilliance, such subtlety.
Not that I expected subtlety from you.
He is a serpent of subtlety.
You got the subtlety of a Mack truck.
Of course. With your usual lack of subtlety, you would have no problem at all in panicking anyone with anything at all to hide.
It demands subtlety.
Subtlety, that is the key.
It doesn't seem to have much subtlety to it.
There are so many plants on the Earth that there's a danger of thinking them trivial of losing sight of the subtlety and efficiency of their design.
I'll have to use more subtlety.
As long as you remember, Captain, that subtlety and irony are quite alien to the military mind.
Turned every subtlety to your advantage.
How I despise your lack of subtlety, and your joined up writing.
Subtlety is not one of our strong points.
He does it so subtlety that she thinks she does. what she only dreams she does.
Yes, Dad, with all the subtlety that Mr Van Damme displayed when he jet-packed into the Vatican to subdue that nasty old pope impostor.
Narrow-minded, no subtlety. and they fight for hopeless causes, honor.
Subtlety is my middle name.
We're working on their subtlety.
Derada is a game of subtlety.

News and current affairs

Rather, through a combination of ingenious software and massive parallel computing power, they had produced a silicon-based entity capable of such finesse and subtlety, that international chess grandmasters worldwide (including me) were simply amazed.
The main protagonist's step-by-step descent into the drug underworld unfolds with such subtlety that each individual decision he makes along the way seems almost reasonable.
Will France address the issue with greater subtlety and avoid this risk?
One of Obama's great achievements is that he made it into a serious topic through the brilliance and subtlety of his rhetoric.
The subtlety and maturity of his diplomacy over Iraq are but another sign that Russia is emerging from its long post-communist funk to find its voice in an American-led world.
That subtlety reflects the distinction between macro-politics and micro-politics.
The field is too full of mines. One of Obama's great achievements is that he made it into a serious topic through the brilliance and subtlety of his rhetoric.

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