Homicide usually isn't subtle and most of the time, you don't have that far to look.

It was rather subtle of me, do you not think?

He was still talking, giving gentle advice, the subtlest of pressure.

The subtlest of evidence can clarify the picture, he said.

The man's face did not change but he could feel a subtle lessening of tension.

So, with the subtlest of incidents, he knew that this day was going to be different.

It's not the most subtle of devices but it does allow a break from the free indirect style.

He can detect it using the most subtle of clues.

As if I needed to give the subtlest of our politicians any advice at all.

Barbara, never the subtlest of people, was trying very hard to change the subject.