subtle ** , also: subtile old use

Maybe something subtle once in a while, but nothing special.

The second thing they tell you is rather more subtle.

Others, however, are put together with something more subtle in mind.

Just enough, maybe, so they would give way on a subtle point or two.

He'd never been the most subtle man in the world.

You have to get your way by more subtle means.

In the past few years, other subtle changes have come over the community.

The result has been a series of subtle but important changes.

He would have to win people over in more subtle ways.

The changes thus far have not at all been subtle.

At least I'm getting a little more subtle about it.

To be sure, it is a small and subtle thing.

We are already beginning to answer the question in subtle ways.

Then there was a subtle change in the air around them.

There might have been a subtle change in her voice.

Yet, if they were too subtle, you would not understand them.

If he was going to try again, he'd have to be more subtle.

But these things were the result of a subtle natural process.

But the situation has turned out to be more subtle.

But in more subtle ways, Washington is beginning to feel the change.

We still use so many subtle ways to keep women "in their place."

It was a subtle change in him, one of several.

There had been a subtle change too in our relationship.

In the end, he decided on something a little more subtle.

I am sure she would have been more subtle than that.