What is "subtleties"

Usage examples of "subtleties".

With the advance of technological subtleties, partly thanks to Moto-Prosthetics, Carialle had designed arms that could hold actual fiber brushes and airbrushes, to apply paints to the surface of the canvases over the base work.

The subtleties were fantastic, the viands incredible—especially considering the numbers who dined.

From there, they were translated into the subtleties of the spoken language over the amulet link to the Cridi, and through sign language to Small Spot and Long Hand.

Patently Readis could only repeat what he had been told and did not quite comprehend the subtleties of the explanation.

For days the soothsayers had rolled snails, consulting the whorl patterns and the subtleties of the shellpile.

At first, Nukurren had thought Kokokda was seeking to renew the conflict, until, from the subtleties of color and posture, she realized that the young Kiktu was simply seeking to acknowledge a worthy foe and, in the confused way of youth, to gain her victor's respect.

The cultural subtleties behind that expression, the product of a species for whom emotional dissemblance is physically easy, would puzzle a gukuy.

Her bow contained none of the subtleties of Ghodha's gesture, however.

He could tell, by subtleties in her posture he could not begin to analyze consciously, that she was poised to strike.

Her husbands-to-be could chatter all they wanted about the subtleties of the Question.

He had spent several years learning the subtleties of controlling one, and then a second, goblin tribe.

Bruenor saw it, and Catti-brie yelled a warning, but the dwarf hadn't mastered the subtleties of driving the chariot well enough to do anything about their course.

If the first six months of this final year, learn ing the subtleties of magic in Sorcere, had been the most enjoyable, these last six in the school of Lloth had been the least.

Unlike his old companions, Drizzt and Catti-brie, this barbarian simply did not seem to understand the subtleties of wizardly combat.

How glad Wulfgar was at that moment that he had been trained by Drizzt Do'Urden, that he had learned the subtleties and wisdom of angled deflection instead of just shrugging off every hit and responding in kind.