William won't take Reggie's hint to leave them alone, and his own hints ("feeling a little giddy, might be food related") are hardly subtle.

Coon was a firm believer in racial hierarchy, and he was hardly subtle about it.

The head of the household is moving out, but the family lurches forward blindly - it's hardly subtle, but it works.

South African help-wanted ads are hardly subtle about whom they are looking for.

The arguments were hardly subtle and indeed sometimes boiled down to the level of whose flagpole is bigger.

Despite the girls' ages, the ad's sexual imagery is hardly subtle.

It would have been an effective irony if handled with subtlety, but Giordano is hardly subtle.

The contrast between these two characters and their ways of looking at the world is hardly subtle.

The title's irony is hardly subtle: have we gained the whole world, Powers wants to know, only to lose our souls?

A duo of baked clams and garlicky shrimp, while hardly subtle, nonetheless worked as well.