Subtlety in a sentence as a noun

It will require no great subtlety of mental powers.

It was not a subtlety of the TLS specification.

In a long term relationship, I don't like subtlety and politeness.

Or quiet simple ones, which in their subtlety, their detail, they were utterly profound.

If you do this with enough subtlety, you won't even have to make the request directly; you'll get an offer.

That doesn't mean a comment isn't helpful to communicate that there's subtlety there and give some idea of what sort of case it's meant to be about.

There are a whole lot of very appealing money-making answers that boil down to eating the seed corn, at wildly varying levels of subtlety.

There's relatively little subtlety, and a concluding paragraph that dubiously hates on the 8-hour work day.

I... I hope I'm not ruining it by asking if this is a test to see how the HN comments respond to subtlety?I suppose that's part of the joke, though like some good jokes it makes me sad.

The whole point of the grading system was to acknowledge subtlety; that it's okay if you don't have an A, because it doesn't mean you haven't learnt anything, it just means you haven't learnt everything [in that course].

A western reporter is probably more likely to take what they say at face value, without understanding the subtlety of their response and then report it as truth, especially when it supports a click-bait headline.

There's a long history of debate around it, and even today there are highly sophisticated versions of it floating around that have added epicycles and epicycles of subtlety, but the long and short of it is that it's been proven wrong.

"\n \n Cook Ting laid down his knife and replied,\n "What I care about is the Way,\n which goes beyond skill.\n \n "When I first began cutting up oxen,\n all I could see was the ox itself.\n After three years I no longer saw the whole ox.\n And now -- now I go at it by spirit\n and don’t look with my eyes.\n Perception and understanding have come to a stop\n and spirit moves where it wants.\n \n "I go along with the natural makeup,\n strike in the big hollows,\n guide the knife through the big openings,\n and follow things as they are.\n So I never touch the smallest ligament or tendon,\n much less a main joint.\n \n "A good cook changes his knife once a year,\n because he cuts.\n A mediocre cook changes his knife once a month,\n because he hacks.\n I’ve had this knife of mine for nineteen years\n and I’ve cut up thousands of oxen with it,\n and yet the blade is still as newly sharpened.\n \n "There are spaces between the joints,\n and the blade of the knife has really no thickness.\n If you insert what has no thickness into such spaces,\n then there’s plenty of room,\n more than enough for the blade to play about in.\n That’s why after nineteen years\n the blade of my knife is still as newly sharpened.\n \n "However, whenever I come to a complicated place,\n I size up the difficulties,\n tell myself to watch out and be careful,\n keep my eyes on what I’m doing,\n work very slowly,\n and move the knife with the greatest subtlety,\n until -- flop!\n the whole thing comes apart\n like a clod of earth crumbling to the ground.\n \n "I stand there holding the knife and look all around me,\n completely satisfied and reluctant to move on,\n and then I wipe off the knife and put it away.

Subtlety definitions

noun

a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; "without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor"; "don't argue about shades of meaning"

See also: nuance nicety shade refinement

noun

the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze; "you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew"

See also: niceness