Chow's analysis points to a subtle flaw in the prisoner's reasoning.
She knew intellectually that the shield should have held, but her heart feared that she had missed some subtle flaw in the scientist's work.
He could keep track of five at a time, know at what point they were in their various workouts and diagnose subtle flaws from across the room.
Some profound and subtle flaw in the machines' design had worked its way to the surface.
His practiced eye detected a subtle flaw in the refraction pattern.
Dr. Wiles's proposed proof could still turn out to have a subtle flaw, some mathematicians warn.
It seemed to him now that there was always a subtle flaw in all he planned.
Well, when the worm was some subtle flaw in a person's understanding, it was indeed better to taste the whole thing.
The subtle flaws inherent in any equation of equivalent terms becomes a generative device.
Picture your race as a gestalt, a single organism with a subtle flaw in its genetic coding.