How to Use subtlety in a Sentence

subtlety

noun

• The pianist performed with subtlety and passion.
• Those subtleties are still able to hook us some somehow.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 11 Aug. 2025
• Like sports fans, news consumers learn the subtleties of the game.
  — Greg Jackson, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
• The track’s many subtleties also come through well.
  — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2026
• There's a lot to take in here, when some subtlety could go a long way.
  — Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• The louder ones have all the subtlety of a kid with a snare drum.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2022
• His own flaw being his lack of subtlety at times.
  — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 23 June 2026
• This, in turn, was met with all the subtlety of a bounty hunt.
  — Matt K. Lewis, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
• Pekel says the success of a project can be gauged in part by its subtlety.
  — Nancy A. Herrick, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2017
• As with most of the other metaphors on this list, there’s not much subtlety here.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
• The subtleties of their art have been enriched by a growth in the forms available to them.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• But then again, this was a decade when subtlety seemed to have been banned at the city limits.
  — Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• There was a subtlety and a finesse about his writing that was all his own.
  — A-LIST, 3 Apr. 2017
• There was little subtlety in his threats.
  — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
• In other words, there’s not a lick of subtlety on this album.
  — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 17 July 2026
• Her thoughtful colleagues helped those subtleties sing.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
• Even amid the more boisterous parts of the track, the speakers pick out the subtleties.
  — PC Magazine, 27 May 2025
• Dunked in orange bacon mayo, the subtleties are beside the point.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2018
• The subtleties of the cocktail serve their spirit master well.
  — Maggie Hoffman, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2018
• The Uzbek defender does not deal in subtleties.
  — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
• The art is in the subtlety, not in the effort of trying to convince.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 1 June 2023
• 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
• My mom played, with great talent and subtlety, the role of a mother and a father.
  — Lily Moayeri, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2022
• Austin sank to the floor and found stunning softness and subtlety in its andante.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• This is one of those subtleties that Alex Smith has nearly mastered.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity.com, 3 May 2017
• The subtlety of the shoulder movement, and the head movements and the eyes.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Oct. 2021
• Morrow said the AmeriQueer plays all have a through-line of subtlety.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020
• The subtlety here is that financial stress is rarely just about money.
  — Dr. Erika Rasure, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• No one ever accused Skrillex of subtlety, and this is prime in-your-face fun.
  — Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
• Where Davies is right is that the subtleties of that collapse make for good TV.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 11 July 2019