subtlety
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artfulness, artifice, caginess (also cageyness), canniness, craft, craftiness, cunning, cunningness, deviousness, foxiness, guile, guilefulness, slickness, slyness, sneakiness, subtleness, wiliness
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Her debut novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), made an immediate impact, landing with all the subtlety of a meteor, if a meteor could come from one’s own planet. — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, "Remembering Toni Morrison," 7 Aug. 2019 Still, the subtleties of what makes these tapes unique have caused enough confusion that NASA published an article on July 8 clarifying that the tapes at Sotheby’s are not the lost tapes, as some publications have inaccurately reported. — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, "How Moon-Landing Tapes Found in a $218 Batch Could Fetch $1 Million," 15 July 2019 Where Davies is right is that the subtleties of that collapse make for good TV. — Adam Rogers, WIRED, "HBO's Years and Years Unlocks Sci-Fi's Ultimate Potential," 11 July 2019 Each pairing explores, in theory, the subtleties of violence’s aftermath. — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, "Big Little Lies Forgot the Thing That Made It Great," 16 July 2019 One subtlety that will be hard to perceive here, but is very much present: the Lumix S1 manages to capture the color temperature difference between the bluer black of the background screen and the redder black of OnePlus CEO Pete Lau’s hair. — Vlad Savov, The Verge, "Panasonic Lumix S1 review: the mirrorless heavyweight," 18 June 2019 At this point, subtlety isn't part of the strategy, and the time for parsing sentences and pulling punches appears to be over. — Brian Lowry, CNN, "Leonardo DiCaprio spotlights urgency of climate crisis in new film," 11 June 2019 What the result demonstrates is the subtlety with which the quantum state is described. — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, "Following Schrödinger’s cat to its death and giving it a reprieve," 5 June 2019 As in most drag shows, subtlety is not the aim here. — Jesse Green, New York Times, "Review: In ‘Ms. Blakk for President,’ a Winning Losing Campaign," 4 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'subtlety.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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