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How to use the word subtleties in a Sentence?

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The subtleties of this, I think, are probably lost from a distance, if there isn’t an industry for kangaroo leather and kangaroo meat, kangaroos are still going to be shot, I promise you. Landholders are still going to shoot kangaroos and it’s going to be a worse animal welfare outcome than if it was done in a regulated, controlled manner.

Jim Radford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I played Portrush one time with my dad and it was a special, fun golf course, it's been a while so I don't remember a lot of the details and subtleties of it.

Phil Mickelson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Partial DNRs( Do Not Resuscitate orders) are helpful in allowing families to feel empowered and have some input, those staunchly ‘ all ’ or ‘ nothing ’ don’t understand subtleties in providing the most compassionate and appropriate care. By placing an unwanted tube, you steal their last opportunity to talk to their family, to tell them ‘ I love you. ’.

Patrick Cullinan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.

Constantin Stanislavski

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Who has not gotten lost, sometime or other, in their own subtleties?

Leslie Miklosy

added by scrutinizer00
11 years ago

A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to admit, let alone discuss with prospective clients. Still, the fact remains that there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another, completely immune to any direct magical spell. It is for this group of beings that the magician learns the subtleties of using indirect spells. It also does no harm, in dealing with these matters, to carry a large club near your person at all times.

The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Kahlil Gibran

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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