"In a rather unsubtle way, I'm lobbying for the kind of books I'm writing!"

Bernice's instincts remained sharp enough to warn her that here was somebody dangerous in a very unsubtle way.

Brodkey notes that AIDS and the knowledge of his impending death altered their relationship in subtle and unsubtle ways.

It's an unsubtle way to show that there are always 2 sides to every story.

I never realized my outlook was so cynical till I tried to tie it up and put it across in that unsubtle way you have to use with sign.

"Leadership for a better future", the slogan for this Tory conference, is an unsubtle way of inviting voters to judge the parties by their frontmen alone.

It's easy to see how a poet this contradictory might suffer from the unsubtle ways in which we tend to talk about things like experimentalism and "the mainstream."

But while their performance was far from perfect, the utterly over-the-top production was still a perfectly unsubtle way to start off the show.