subtleties

Example Sentences

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“Scarborn” is so Polish, so involved with the subtleties of history and class, that things might get by an American viewer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

By simply telling us that compassion is possible without depicting the subtleties of human growth, “I Swear” functions more like an educational drama than a portrait of how to make real-life change.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

Throughout the museum, scholarship was diminished and subtleties disappeared.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

It’s funny because it’s not a broad stroke; they write in such subtleties.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

Another night of Stew Beef making dynamic subtleties with his drum and living, sculptural, grotesques in the dance.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston