To black Americans, the President made the same demand, although in the subtler tone of the passive voice.

The furniture and waiting room are turned out in subtle, tasteful tones.

The action failed to capture the subtle tone of my lost didactic romance.

Patterns with flowers, leaves and flowing lines were printed in subtle tones.

Her choice of forms is reduced to their simplest expression; colours to subtle tones.

And retouching subtle tones in a face, for example, can be done more successfully by hand.

Mere newsprint would hardly do justice to its subtle tones.

The faces are gender neutral and the coloring is in subtle natural tones.

There was a subtle tone in the old man's remark.

Metallic sweaters were in subtle tones of pink, blue, yellow and silver gray.