Right now, it seems like the biggest challenge to overcome is a subtle sort of identity crisis.

I mean, it was those sorts of things, really subtle.

If poison, the count thought, it was of a more subtle sort than he had heard of.

Or is His enchantment of a subtler sort?

It was accepted, even encouraged in a subtle sort of way, to match wills with Jay Mac.

Nothing serious yet, although she sensed their friendship was changing in a subtle sort of way.

It's a subtle sort of thing.

Sometimes there is art of a subtle sort in not touching, in simply sitting and smoking and talking of other people.

A far more subtle sort of collaboration is going on.

He had witnessed so little magic in his life, and most of it was of the subtler sort, the kind that Nightingale used.