Grinning, Antony leaned forward with an air of subtle menace.
"Do so, and you get nothing," said Octavian, leaning forward in subtle menace, an act he did better than Antony did.
What about subtler menaces?
It was not that he was overtly hostile, but there was a subtle menace in his look that chilled her to the marrow.
The atmosphere pulsed with a subtle but distinct menace.
The estimable Craig Smith is excellent as the biker, exuding subtle menace in every glance or gesture.
His is a largely undiscovered species of male American midlife crisis, and one that most novelists wouldn't know what do with, because its subtle menace is beyond them.
Those voices had always been heavy with subtle menace.
But after a lot of subtler menace, it plays as overkill.
His voice was a low rasp, filled with carefully controlled rage and subtle menace.