The work bespeaks a subtle eye, a sober mind, and an ardent heart.
From enjoying a movie on a hotel room TV to hearing an announcement in an airport security line, audio speakers are a subtle necessity for a smooth and pleasant trip.
Though a subtle change, these words are a public acknowledgement that the economic recovery is gaining momentum.
It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
Beckett's plays depend on a subtle understanding of the stage as a place of artifice, performance and imprisonment.
Out of this emerges a subtle portrait of the complexities of a long companionship based on confidences rather than mutual confidence.
Last year, the press zeroed in on a subtle request to the organizers of a sports meeting for handicapped people in Yokohama.
In fact, the best form of public relations is quite distant from the Ab Fab image: less glamorous, more subtle and a great deal more difficult.
"Japanese traditional houses have paper screens with mica paint which is a very subtle medium, giving a shiny appearance to recreate the pattern of the water, " she said.
And so perhaps this is part of the political legacy of the Bush years: a subtle shift in what makes you a progressive, and how liberal lines are drawn.
Nearly none of his "music-inspired" efforts get spared some hollering in a show of smug bravado, or foot-stomping, or the clapping of hands or the slapping of thighs, all about as artful and subtle as a jokester's "get it" elbow jab to the ribs.
It is a subtle but important difference in the way a leader looks at his top leadership team.
They do Cantonese with a twist, smothering its subtle flavours under a blanket of garlic cloves and chillies.
It's pretty, about the size and shape of an egg, but a deep purplish, red color with a subtle, fruity smell, almost like a plum.
The first introduces the idea of hospitality as a game of deceit and subtle manipulation, a theme Mr Browner returns to regularly in the pages to come.
Never foregoing an opportunity to expound on free market principles, I warned about her susceptibility to a subtle means of theft even more devious than a burglar breaking in at night against whom you might get a clear shot.
The next track, "Crystalised, " employs a familiar strategy: hooky ostinato riff embellished with a few subtle effects, leading to a soft vocal.
Duvall jettisons his usual rural mannerisms, giving a subtle, fluid, full-bodied characterization of a starchy patriarch with off-the-wall eloquence.
That done, trying the experiment with different conductors may suggest why a subtle change in the structure of an insulator or a superconductor can cause a major change in its character.
In Scientology, he always felt a subtle pressure to impress his auditor and then write up a glowing success story.
The Soloist utilizes SurfaceSound flat panel speaker technology, and packs a subtle 10 watt-per-channel Tripath amplifier into a thin, black housing.
But there is also a more subtle story about the creation of a political machine.
It is a subtle stratagem, working on the assumption that by associating itself with a worthy cause, the party will enhance its reputation with the public.
Say what you wish about Barack Obama, but the man is a subtle thinker who is more focused on the long-term benefits of a decision than he is on the short-term gratification that drives most of our politicians.
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This is a subtle point: When it introduced the iPhone 5, Apple actually highlighted a 3-minute video on how the phone was manufactured.
"She needs unconditional love and support, " Ms. Blumenthal writes, and even a subtle message that the family does not agree with her sexual orientation can be a factor in her depression.
It relies on a subtle phenomenon called the Yarkovsky effect (named after the Russian engineer who discovered it a century ago).
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Though it depicts the severe separation of men and women in Saudi Arabia, it's a subtle, largely optimistic film in which the girl, Wadjda, strives to simply own a bicycle.
Last year, James Grey's "We Own the Night" invested a very similar story with subtle character shadings and a subversive edge.
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