But there is a more subtle and significant distinction, which causes much confusion.

This is in some ways a debate over subtle but important distinctions.

It was a subtle distinction some people loved to make.

Others were charged with making the more subtle distinctions, the real decisions.

The same subtle distinctions still run in America, to some extent.

It is a subtle distinction, perhaps, but not so in importance.

But at this camp, built in the early 1950's, there are subtle distinctions.

At other times, subtle distinctions within the dream itself are significant.

She heard you tell all about the subtle distinction in the decisions.

The others nodded; it was a subtle distinction, but a very important one.