Subtle
Both words in one sentence
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The remake, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and its expansion pack Enemy Within replace Snakemen with Thin Men; snake-eyed, venom-spewing exaggeratedly slender and tall humanoids with subtle patches of scales.
Source: Snake People - After the Thin Man offers a subtle example; Nora doesn't officially announce she's pregnant until the very end of the movie, but beforehand makes odd requests like scrambled eggs at three o'clock in the morning.
Source: Wacky Cravings - The holes are small enough that the wind currents produced are subtle and it takes several minutes for the atmosphere inside to become too thin to breathe.
Source: Continuous Decompression
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