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He says anxious people are often acutely tuned into relationships, spotting subtle shifts in mood, tone and behaviour that others miss, while avoidant people can be fiercely independent and perform well under pressure.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Despite acknowledging subtle differences with Lindsey—“I have my own way of doing things,” she wrote in a note to constituents last week—she has emphasized that they shared the “same values.”

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

“I feel like that conversation is very subtle and there’s times when you need to just be speaking black-and-white terms and say, ‘I’m gay’ as opposed to saying, ‘Sexuality’s very complicated.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

“Free Fall” addresses this unreliability in overtly philosophical terms, though it’s no less subtle or unsettling for that.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

It’s subtle, and I think I’m the only one who hears it.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Critics, including the leadership of SAG-AFTRA, counter that the displacement is already at hand in subtler ways, with background roles and commercials increasingly filled by digital doubles rather than human performers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

It remains to be seen whether “Kitchen Undercover” will rely on prosthetics, fake mustaches or merely the subtler costume of the unrecognized employee.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

What draws him most is subtler than that.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

More mature consumers are likely to stick with natural, subtler looks, she said.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026

And there’s a subtler problem: molecules generally refuse to sit still for their portraits.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

His 2021 restaurant memory drama “Pig” gave Nicolas Cage his subtlest dialogue in years, while “A Quiet Place: Day One” had no business being as believably haunted as it was.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

The film won’t win any prizes for the subtlest metaphor of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

Throughout the history of American music, blues, jazz and soul singers have used the jazzy quaver for the subtlest nuances of emotion: for tension, playfulness, defiance, flirtatiousness, ache or just blithe ornamentation.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

Through the warm friendship of Tara and Karan, the series also imparts one of its subtlest takes on relationships.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2023

Tragedy turned him into one of the subtlest and sharpest satirists in American letters.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin