Their discord was often increased by a tendency on Plaxy's part to express her vague sense of frustration in subtle little cruelties.

Through his discreet investigations, the sympathetic Pitt exposes the subtle cruelty of the anonymous letters that bring disgrace to one man and death to another.

And herein lay the subtle cruelty of my mugger's crime.

Was this vandalism, a political statement, or an act of precisely directed, subtle cruelty?

Bushwacked by her beguiling ways, the smitten villagers are blinded to her subtle cruelties - until someone sees through her and strikes.

Were the girls capable of the subtle cruelty to cook it up together?

Her full red lips promised-anything, and even the subtle cruelty stamped upon them, lured.

Having just escaped deportation to Auschwitz, he experienced one of those subtle cruelties that, when added all together, had made the Holocaust possible.

This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of space-time.

Every time I think I have seen the last of subtle human cruelties, another pops up!