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"subtlety" Definitions
  1. [uncountable] the quality of being subtle
  2. [countable, usually plural] the small but important details or aspects of something
"subtlety" Synonyms
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"subtlety" Antonyms
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The comparative aesthetic subtlety of the "Koda" rectangles evinces greater conceptual subtlety.
Yet Billy eventually finds "maturity," and in terms of subtlety Sandler glides the character from a Spinal Tap amp-level of 11 to somewhere around a 4 level of subtlety.
The key here is subtlety — overdoing it could backfire.
Cleveland metal maniacs Midnight have never been known for subtlety.
One offers a preacher's simplicity, the other a thinker's subtlety.
This current runs, with power and subtlety, throughout this book.
Nick: The Walking Dead has never been great at subtlety.
The album's conscience is evident in varying shades of subtlety.
Subtlety has no place in your playbook this eclipse season.
Subtlety as aesthetic strategy fails only when it attenuates id.
The preference for "real" instruments, or for subtlety, for example.
But for good whites, you want access to every subtlety.
Subtlety is not his forte, which is a welcome change.
We Boston fans have always been known for our subtlety.
Redundancy rules, as YouTube isn't exactly known for its subtlety.
And Trump, no master of subtlety, failed to do it.
By the second match, subtlety had gone by the wayside.
Not all the films are content with suggestion or subtlety.
ONONDAGA NATION — The cicadas return with no regard for subtlety.
Safranski is an energetic writer, without much refinement or subtlety.
What Hayes liked about Trump was the lack of subtlety.
As Sweeney explained, subtlety is the key in lens artwork.
He writes about its 'intricacy, subtlety and profound emotional content.
"There's a subtlety to the 'nonresponse response,'" Mr. Holmes said.
Among Siegel's distinctive achievements, then, is her works' mesmerizing subtlety.
In the meantime, Trump's family weighed in with their typical subtlety.
It's the compounded effect of subtlety and restraint as you apply.
Now, her new boyfriend Cody Simpson is dropping the subtlety altogether.
The imagery is hardly subtle, but subtlety isn't really necessary here.
Still, maybe the times we live in don't call for subtlety.
For department stores, there may be no time left for subtlety.
Clearly, Goyette's unrelenting anger does not care for subtlety or gentleness.
" His advice included tips like "subtlety sells" and "be on time.
But that is a subtlety lost on Trump and his supporters.
When you're Justin Bieber, there's really no such thing as subtlety.
Weisz plays her role of grieving, conflicted daughter with appropriate subtlety.
Maybe to help you wake up, they don't traffic in subtlety.
There was a kind of wealth of subtlety, ambiguity, and confusion.
But, sadly, this kind of narrative subtlety too often escapes Legacy.
"Wild Nights with Emily" was commended for its subtlety and charm.
Jessica Lang's dances may be subdued, but they don't embrace subtlety.
That kind of subtlety is a stretch for many American cooks.
Peanut-padded and dripping with caramel, Snickers is allergic to subtlety.
Aronofsky has never known the meaning of subtlety and watching Mother!
Greater subtlety is drawn out of, or spirited into, the ingredients.
But his coarse, wobbly singing had little subtlety during lyrical passages.
It shares the subtlety of the black, white, and gray works.
As in most drag shows, subtlety is not the aim here.
Their differences are not matters of ideological degree or political subtlety.
Also like Trump, Herbster seems to have little taste for subtlety.
Reviews consistently noted the subtlety, sincerity and nobility of his playing.
Karl's book, "Furious George," did not have any of that subtlety.
It's pure, fine and balanced, a wine of subtlety and finesse.
Subtlety, however, is not a part of Waissbluth's filmmaking skill set.
He was queer, and his work reflects, with ingenious subtlety, that experience.
His apparent allergy to subtlety doesn't exactly lend itself to pop success.
Whatever subtlety there once was to this art, technology is now obliterating.
These spare poems shimmer in that spaciousness with their nuance and subtlety.
In favor: You know, a little subtlety probably wouldn't kill you here.
There's such a subtlety in the expression and it's the layers of
There is so much subtlety complexity behind every little thing we do.
Uncharted 4's idea of subtlety is putting rust on the taps.
But they both offer an uncommon level of subtlety for message-movies.
This subtlety, Szymoniak said, was a crucial part of the design process.
Subtlety does not often play well on the prime-time small screen.
The subtlety of the film is both an accomplishment and a limitation.
This subtlety continues to the final scene, reflected in a bedroom mirror.
While there, he oversaw projects like Kara Walker's "A Subtlety" in 2014.
He appreciates opera's extroversion, its heightening of reality, but never abandons subtlety.
Théâtre de la Colline, Paris Subtlety is not Vincent Macaigne's strong suit.
I'd think I'm overthinking, but Gabriela Hearst is the queen of subtlety.
A notable characteristic of Goodnow Farms Chocolate bars is their sleek subtlety.
It takes a little subtlety to harmonize these strands, but it's doable.
So if you prioritize prestige, subtlety or cornering, there are better options.
The way in which the two connect is unhurried, handled with subtlety.
Polk eschews subtlety for functionality, essentially plopping an Echo Dot into this speaker.
But are the convenience and subtlety of e-medicine worth the trade-offs?
Such a course would have required a great deal of effort and subtlety.
"It's so fun to play, has such great subtlety and nuance," Mickelson said.
I really respected the actors and their subtlety within that sort of impediment.
One thing we know for sure: Ryan Murphy is not one for subtlety.
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump and his top surrogates practiced something unusual Monday: subtlety.
The secret to pulling off a matchy-matchy look is subtlety, he says.
The film is an ode to horniness, with the subtlety of strobe lighting.
The tightrope Trump faces in Saudi Arabia is taut with subtlety and context.
I don't know what there was to lose by going full tilt — subtlety?
It sounds really sensual and like there's a lot more subtlety to it.
Much of the force of volunteer surveillance, Reeves emphasizes, comes from its subtlety.
But the more I look at them, the more I love the subtlety.
These aren't people who appreciate subtlety or rational discourse or, you know, arguments.
In the less forgiving silence of "Period," subtlety without substance is more glaring.
Sam Anderson's dour portrait misses the subtlety and grace in cross-country skiing.
Framing his subjects with subtlety, he concentrates on people others take for granted.
The delicacy and subtlety of the art only adds to the frisky humor.
With subtlety and eloquence, Edugyan unfolds a wondrous tale of exploration and discovery.
But there seems to be little room for subtlety in the Paracel Islands.
I never thought I'd miss the nuance and subtlety of the German language.
Subtlety got you a bit further, at least if there was irony involved.
Subtlety, traditionally undervalued in Chinese cuisine, is raised to an art form here.
Her scenes underline the theme with all the subtlety of a highway billboard.
He doesn't do subtlety, and he has a very German sense of humor.
Rather than depict brutal events graphically, he reimagined them with subtlety and surrealism.
The film adaptation was released in November to stellar reviews for its moving subtlety.
He hasn't shown much subtlety or wile to support his talents and fundamentals yet.
It may be up to Trump and his allies to show some diplomatic subtlety.
Your videos are such an effective mix of subtlety and over-the-top humor.
Tom could learn quite a bit from that quote regarding the power of subtlety.
This isn't true for Swift because, well, she hasn't mastered the art of subtlety.
And the film's strident emotional manipulation sometimes distracts from the subtlety of its writing.
He lacks the subtlety to conceal his feelings behind clever formulations and eloquent words.
And that's pretty damn strange, as Deadpool is not a character known for subtlety.
"Born this Way" was clearly inspired, while "Lola" added a nice touch of subtlety.
For those suffering under brutal dictatorship, subtlety was a luxury they could ill afford.
This subtlety is critical in allowing him to capture the complexities of the region.
But Mr. Koons is a master of concision and subtlety compared with Studio Job.
I didn't expect anyone to match her subtlety, and Ms. Mazzie wisely doesn't try.
At this year's convention an opening video, set to stirring music, dispensed with subtlety.
In general, the tapestry's flat surface and the screaming, heavy graphic design lack subtlety.
It's only once the need for subtlety dissipates that his delivery goes full tilt.
When it comes to staying safe, Sergeant Trish Hoffman knows the value of subtlety.
Rather than addressing this directly, Ms. Backström gains power through the subtlety of suggestion.
There's no finesse, no subtlety — in either the film's bones or in Lively's performance.
There's also a smattering of '80s references for nostalgic adults, which vary in subtlety.
Strahovski nails the subtlety required to communicate Serena Joy's mix of vulnerability and steeliness.
And then, on Tuesday, did it again, with even less subtlety and more sanctimony.
There's not much subtlety possible in here, which lends itself to more extravagant gestures.
But their latest brief removed that subtlety, saying that the entire law should go.
And what fascinates about this game, ultimately, is the detail, the subtlety of interaction.
They possess a subtlety not often found — a quiet call to remember, and to heal.
It was very obvious that I liked him — subtlety has never been my strong suit.
Because of their subtlety and elegance, they're regarded by many sushi chefs as the best.
All of the emotional subtlety the humans lack, the orcs have, and it's really weird.
Somehow, it succeeds in building off the game's mechanics while adding more depth and subtlety.
The beauty of Souza's caption — of his entire Instagram account, actually — lies in its subtlety.
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Crash Bandicoot's idea of subtlety is to hide a bonus level just out of view.
The pastel blues, pinks, and purples of the video express the subtlety of O'Keeffe's work.
The current iteration of Hollywood Boulevard is not a place particularly known for its subtlety.
There are moments of subtlety, but they have to be dug out of the style.
There is much comedy and real subtlety, both intellectual and human, in Solstad's internal explorations.
The overwrought lyricism and lack of musical subtlety kept turning the opera melodramatic, even maudlin.
Spotlight The self-taught South African artist Ayanda Mabulu is not known for his subtlety.
Subtlety is an art, but if you have an Echo Dot, it's not that hard.
When it comes to tattoos — and everything else — Lady Gaga is not one for subtlety.
Perhaps, since both our minds are quiet, I've subtlety tuned into Fleur's energy of thought.
Subtlety is tough: Nuance has been a challenge in an increasingly soundbite-driven political environment.
Unfortunately, this is the beginning of the show's pervasive dilution of subtlety on all counts.
But they are implied, with the subtlety of a breaking dawn, in the word "touched."
There was subtlety in Lada Valesova's piano playing, and some richness in Ms. Hamard's voice.
They come laden with confusion, doubt, subtlety — is it excessively earnest to call it truth?
But as with all things in contemporary dance, the magic comes from approach, subtlety, nuance.
Today you can send erotic letters if you want, but subtlety sometimes proves more potent.
Subtlety has no place in Milan's fashion scene, where the louder the piece, the better.
Mel Gibson can be accused of many things, but subtlety is not one of them.
It won't win any prizes for subtlety there; as drama, it's too clumsy and obvious.
Subtlety gives way to blunter characterizations when the two main advocates spar in the courtroom.
"Novitiate" veers between subtlety and its opposite, which is personified mainly by Melissa Leo's abbess.
Charles M. Blow The political winds are shifting with all the subtlety of a hurricane.
The poem lacks subtlety and frankly I cannot help but define it as mere doggerel.
But reading it, you'd invent some subtlety and cohesion that doesn't exist in the finished film.
Rabbia's art is one of subtlety and resonance, her subjects as fleeting as they are timeless.
No, never ones for subtlety, the Kardashians went for a more literal take on the trend.
That's a much-discussed topic today, but Dodge addresses it with subtlety without neglecting visual delight.
I hesitate to praise a performer for reticence, but the subtlety of SZA's gestures demands notice.
Since taking office two weeks ago, the new President has shown little patience for diplomatic subtlety.
Looks took on a different variety of judgment with all the faux subtlety of pig Latin.
This relative subtlety opens doors to respectable society that remain shut to the traditional skinhead right.
Without fail each fight contained two fighters running in, pumping their hands alternately, with little subtlety.
There's something extremely calming and mesmerizing about the illusions, there is magic is in the subtlety.
He was a writer of considerable wit and subtlety whose public pronouncements tended towards the bombastic.
In short, it's not exactly a visually stunning phase — and its spiritual associations mirror that subtlety.
The movie isn't subtle about the symbolism, but then subtlety is very far from its mode.
The girl is not about subtlety, and her latest anticipated launch of "Kylighter" is no exception.
His comedy characters aren't that different: they just drop the subtlety, and most of the humanity.
Subtlety and are not commonplace in boxing, but Haye is about as classless as they come.
He just doesn't have the patience or the subtlety to get things done at this level.
The true story of Sean Paul Lockhart has all the subtlety of a Jack Chick tract.
What I found, in a lot of criticisms, is that subtlety, that significance piece, was missed.
Boxing purists complained that system took both the subtlety and the energy out of the sport.
This collection didn't quite rise to that level; it traded some subtlety and sophistication for trend.
Go for it, if you care about authenticity and intensity, about subtlety and idiosyncrasy and maturity.
Still via Wiki This beauty is universal, but of course there's subtlety that's lost in translation.
I believe Plame is telling the truth when she says the subtlety was lost on her.
She undermines the play's ending with a similar lack of subtlety, detracting from the overall power.
Subtlety is not Mr. Ryoo's forte here: The Japanese are, to a man, caricatures of evil.
Trump and his officials can't be bothered with such subtlety; they just lie, blatantly, about everything.
You are adept at subtlety and nuance and know how to weave together a magical moment.
The larger size surely assists with the touch controls but they're not exactly designed for subtlety.
In 2019, hair color is all about subtlety —naturally blended balayage and babylights for sparkly dimension.
It wasn't subtle, but then, subtlety tends to get blown over by the winds of change.
To her credit, Ms. Bullock brought out every expressive subtlety and ambiguity in her ravishing performance.
It has a pleasant sweetness to it, although the subtlety tends to get lost in volume.
It's not a subtle metaphor, but The Taming of the Shrew has no use for subtlety.
In this class of cars, subtlety is welcome; I doubt many will complain about the car's looks.
This year, it was all about subtlety and non-touring, and the same applies to lip color.
Subtlety was possibly the last word one would use to describe Season 1 of Life is Strange.
But the Rift, from its Apple-like packaging to the subtlety of its adjustment straps, communicates ease.
Her strategy thus far has been: aim for just below Colton's belt, and toss all subtlety aside.
But Evans recently decided subtlety wasn't for him, and painted an even more elaborate masterpiece last week.
The video is layered with subtlety, and the multiple narratives crisscross and interact, creating subtexts and abstractions.
It's a story that's both sweet and simple, though lacking a bit in the way of subtlety.
You've raised the important question of how one maintains integrity, irony, and subtlety while making political work.
In a town of cautious talking points, Mr. Bolton, like Mr. Trump, finds no virtue in subtlety.
It has "all the subtlety of a Wall Street-themed ride," Heather Havrilesky wrote in The Times.
"Let's say that it's strength lies in its subtlety," she told Ynet in a video interview. Ugh.
Before the idea of ostentatious feathers put you off, there's a little more subtlety this time around.
Big, brash American hops like Cascade, Centennial, Columbus and Chinook lack the subtlety of their British cousins.
And Ava was all about finding the subtlety, and making people believe that she might have consciousness.
I'd claim the game lacks subtlety, but compared to the political blockbusters of Peter Berg, it's Bulgakov.
As traditionally minded religions go, the Mormons bring a certain subtlety to their dealings with other faiths.
It's a survey of the absolute state of us, delivered with the Internet's crushing lack of subtlety.
It was yet another instance of trivializing women when we want to be considered with more subtlety.
But even these descriptions of the individual publishers do not do the subtlety of the data justice.
It's the fear of miscegenation Berry tapped into here, treating the subject with subtlety, wit, and determination.
Robert Forster: Songs to Play (Tacete) Subtlety isn't exactly an aesthetic choice for the other Go-Between.
The message landed with all the subtlety of Ustvolskaya's hammer, yet I'll not soon forget the image.
The designers believe that heels make more of a public statement, but flats excel in their subtlety.
Chawla obviously wants to show the folly of greed, but with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
They make quite a combination: the fierce, fast tenacity of Vardy along with the subtlety of Mahrez.
When he needs to send a message to his foes, Mitch McConnell is the master of subtlety.
The more overtly negative reactions to hearing about slave history were varied in their levels of subtlety.
Though Julia Cho is a playwright of subtlety, violence and devastating loss haunt many of her works.
Subtlety and aesthetic elegance — the jerky animation complements the blunt tone — are not among the film's virtues.
Subtlety and nuance might be in fashion again in some distant future, but probably not this year.
In an article in The Times, Mike Hale called the show a "high-energy, low-subtlety sitcom."
What's more unexpected is the subtlety with which this natural powerhouse shades her character from the start.
The trumpeter and composer Nate Wooley favors subtlety over bombast and slowly winding structures over obvious drama.
None of that availed him much here, in a work that little rewards understatement or great subtlety.
Superstore borrows the best of the Jim-and-Pam model, then updates it with subtlety and precision.
But what the production lacks in depth and subtlety it makes up for in clarity and swiftness.
That's partly because I think the cast is pushing harder to win over us subtlety-challenged Americans.
As a work of high drama, Jesse Green writes, the Trump-Zelensky script lacks stagecraft and subtlety.
Code has little subtlety, so an ad that most people would consider unobtrusive might get flagged anyway.
Patience, subtlety, and the humility to know that you can't always get what you want immediately, help.
The true subtlety of Ms. Spalding's eye and thought are visible in the text panels and labels.
And Mr. Fincher's "House of Cards," also for Netflix, has not exactly been a model of subtlety.
There's a lack of subtlety to the propaganda posters, which in some ways makes them especially effective.
JT came back to the pop culture landscape this past week with an album that contained no subtlety.
This enables us to pry the subtlety of entanglement itself apart from the general oddity of quantum theory.
British rugby players grow up boshing into one another with all the subtlety of a herd of oxen.
The company's recent products have toned down the overbearing bass, but these headphones aren't known for their subtlety.
The LED button has four exclamation marks on it, because the Ty-Lite experience is not about subtlety.
DS: I love the subtlety in the way his characters are animated, how they can be so expressive.
While it's underutilized in cocktail recipes, it is capable of lending incredible subtlety to even the simplest mixtures.
Riverdale, a gritty TV reimagining of the Archie comic books, is not exactly a show known for subtlety.
"Pandering to the audience without subtlety, the film makes the most obvious choices," Emmanuel Levy wrote for Variety.
That McDougald enabled him to do so was a subtlety that was not fully understood at the time.
George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road wasn't heralded as a cinematic masterpiece because of it's subtlety or understatement.
Using it in the right way to channel it into the subtlety of the dance was my challenge.
It's humid and subdued, and Keys turns in a vocal take that impresses with subtlety rather than firepower.
"We didn't even dream of the subtlety of being able to properly match a donor with a recipient."
No similar deflection imperils Coe, whose meanings register with all the subtlety of a punch in the stomach.
Is that lack of subtlety heightened, or soothed, by the fact that two such subtle actresses are involved?
The show's shapeless red clothes denote victimhood; there's no complexity or subtlety to the role of a Handmaid.
When you need some subtlety and nuance, that's where she really steps in and does an amazing job.
There's probably a subtlety to my relationship with this place that didn't exist when I first moved here.
Not many teen movies from 2006 questioned the accuracy of gender, and even fewer did so with subtlety.
Subtlety is key when sipping tea at another celebrity, especially one with whom you've had previous public beef.
Personally, I've always tried to bring subtlety to my own work, because I think it's a powerful tool.
It does, however, reduce the narrative's scope for subtlety and this is a problem, not least for Lesage.
Yet the performance stood out just as much for the subtlety, restraint and even gravity he brought out.
There's much emphasis on flash over substance these days, but there is much genius and craft in subtlety.
It works best when Davis commands the screen with her inimitable blend of psychological subtlety and operatic intensity.
Where Matt Murdock has a surgeon's precision in dismantling henchmen, Luke has the subtlety of a freight train.
I can appreciate the writing and subtlety, but redemption-through-marriage books read like horror stories to me.
Whereas there's a gentleness and a subtlety to Queller, "Sievert" is churning and monolithic while retaining a groove.
Verdict: The mural is as lacking in subtlety as the people calling for its removal are in empathy.
Cohen was armed with another prop -- a ceramic chicken -- in case anyone missed the sublime subtlety of his stunt.
The Vatican, both well-informed and well-connected in Syria, has acted with more subtlety than other Christian authorities.
We wanted to highlight Kawakubo's love of a garment's construction, so we incorporated a subtlety deconstructed off-white corset.
With each take, Reubens shifted emphasis and emotional inflection, offering up different flavors of ham here, unexpected subtlety there.
Your finger then beckons her in with all the subtlety of an elephant pounding its way over the desk.
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Lamp Lit features ample moments of ecstatic harmony performances, but the standout moments are ones of subtlety, not excess.
Surprisingly, they didn't have to read too deep into anything, because the new Taylor has no time for subtlety.
There are professional adult actors who never develop the sense of nuance and subtlety she brings to the short.
Those who see it (or those who already have it) may find the new design refreshing in its subtlety.
At its heart, it's a form of art, with subtlety that could be easily lost on the average observer.
An event that gestures to the American military industrial complex with about as much subtlety as a tidal wave?
ATLANTIC CITY — In this fading hub of spinning fortunes and Northeastern excess, Hillary Clinton found little occasion for subtlety.
Jordan's movie is not graced with subtlety, nor does it wish to be, and that's the fun of it.
I'm inclined to believe the former, but one thing's for sure: Cyrus certainly knows how to shade with subtlety.
It features Buddy Guy — a wily master of suspense, subtlety and flashy aggression — and other guitarists, including Zakk Wylde.
If you're going to cut the line, the key, according to Nick Catchdubs, is subtlety—no shoving, no noise.
There's a subtlety to the colors too—very rich but subdued due to the mineral content in the rocks.
The result is a unique amalgam of Italian exuberance and artistic genius joined to French subtlety and classical restraint.
Wielded with subtlety, Ms. Lawless said, they can still benefit male politicians among some older and less-partisan voters.
All points of subtlety were quickly overwhelmed by the tidal wave of racialized anger that swept over the country.
Chef Francesca Ciucci alchemizes local ingredients — fermented black garlic, chickpea flour, red Tropea onions — into dishes of exceptional subtlety.
" In introductory comments, Mr. Wadsworth said that the project has tried to present Callas with "restraint, subtlety and delicacy.
The president appears to be doing both, and engaging in such conduct without art or subtlety is no excuse.
Ms. Pudjiastuti has not relied on subtlety: Under her aegis, hundreds of impounded foreign vessels have been blown up.
I recognize and respect your deliberate approach to navigating these fraught times, but this relentless subtlety has become wearisome.
Because that's who goes to see Ariana Grande in concert; there's no subtlety in who the bombers were targeting.
Only at the very end, with thrilling subtlety and impressive clarity, does a fable blossom from the satirical earth.
In contrast, consider Kara Walker's site-specific sculpture "A Subtlety," (2014) at the former Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn.
Now, how you reach a balance of good taste and subtlety, that's just something you learn on your own.
"The best ones had a subtlety that is rare in Scotch whisky and almost nonexistent in American," David said.
That's one of the differences between couture and ready-to-wear; there's more room in the first for subtlety.
Now it's become more of a pure power exercise, cutting through those Gordian knots of subtlety with Valyrian steel.
There's no nuance or subtlety—you're just a happy little idiot bumbling along, taking the world at face value.
I've always been impressed with his total disregard for subtlety and need to evoke fantasy in everything he makes.
Seen out of their historical context, these works can seem heavy-handed and obvious, lacking in spontaneity and subtlety.
Personality changes happen in fiction, but not with such lack of subtlety -- not to characters the writers respect and understand.
To them, sexism is open hostility: It's a man vocally dismissing you because you are a woman — no subtlety there.
She presented him with the Patron Tequila Solo Artist for his work as a superstar DJ. See the subtlety there?
There's a subtlety to much of the work in Empire Wasted as the poems seamlessly shift between seriousness and humor.
There is no subtlety at play here – the dialogue, much like Thackeray's speeches in real life, is no-holds-barred.
Classic tradecraft shit, here, classic unfair-leveraging shit, but performed with a subtlety and tastefulness that shields it from cynicism.
So it was perhaps to be expected that The Division 2 would be heavy on atmosphere and light on subtlety.
Massive animations and text pop-ups permeate fights, and where there was originally subtlety, now there's often distracting eye candy.
But Trump has never grasped the subtlety of his own messaging and has continued to insist on a literal wall.
Fans of these types of products celebrate their extreme subtlety, gushing over a certain dewiness or just the right glow.
It's acted with such exquisite subtlety that, for two hours at least, the frantic Riviera glitz outside seems miles away.
One senior EU diplomat pleaded for a debate with "more subtlety," because any ban on Chinese goods could be costly.
The wine's restraint was all the more impressive given that Chinese consumers are not generally thought to appreciate such subtlety.
"These are millions of years of evolution; they're fine-tuned with a huge amount of subtlety and precision," said Sweeney.
But even as A Subtlety became a selfie magnet, artist-anthropologist Walker was watching us too, secretly recording viewers' reactions.
There's no subtlety in President Donald Trump's closing message to voters: Be very scared of brown people in this country.
Yet recent renditions of Mahler's Fifth Symphony and Act I of Wagner's "Die Walküre" have lacked subtlety, lyricism and depth.
And then with a movie like [ Louder Than Bombs], such subtlety and an observational approach [means] you have more leeway.
Its top wine, Único, a gorgeous blend of intensity and subtlety, costs hundreds of dollars and can evolve for decades.
The subtlety of books as status symbols has also hindered them from attracting the new wealth that has followed art.
Watts really went in, describing the new fad of Insta-poetry as the "complete rejection of complexity, subtlety and eloquence".
From the beginning, the subtlety and brilliance of Cusk's project arises from her decision not to foreground Faye's specific loss.
As a result, the guests that played it safe — or safer — or opted for more subtlety, seemed boring by contrast.
But burning, a technique that can involve a surprising amount of shading and subtlety, has deep roots in many cuisines.
Those words resonated for Louis Moore, an associate professor of history at Grand Valley State University, who appreciated Jackson's subtlety.
They will be his, singularly forthright; unattended by subtlety or complication; and fenced on all sides by his personal experience.
These technologies are masterpieces of subtlety and sophistication, offering a world-class censorship experience amenable to consumers and commissars alike.
I've noticed subtlety is often missing in experimental communities, yet I see you finding new details in the musical minutiae.
Earlier this month, O'Donnell coyly seemed to confirm Radar Online's report of an engagement when she subtlety changed her Instagram bio.
Her turn as Red is the more technically impressive — that voice alone — but I'd argue that Adelaide requires even more subtlety.
A bit on the nose, but I admit I need less subtlety in my anti-colonial, anti-oligarchy fiction these days.
Mr. Polenzani, ardent and impetuous as Rodolfo, summoned Italianate colorings and ringing top notes, while singing with subtlety and rhythmic punch.
Housed in an 18th-century farmhouse, Campagna walks a line between flashy and low key, excitement and subtlety, in all aspects.
In "Yesteryear," there's a rare subtlety to the way William Shatner and Nimoy approach their roles as Kirk and Spock, respectively.
But in using her, you are ... Exactly, and a lot of it is about the subtlety of what you don't say.
Certainly Islamist terrorists would: Of all the qualities one might attribute to them, subtlety of interpretation is not one of them.
As you pointed out, you know, the nuance and subtlety is what I like the most about all of those ads.
"They expect me to say this is fantastic, but there's a subtlety when we're looking at private sector development," says Manber.
As humans, we pick up such subtlety in the human face that anything that's too exaggerated, you instantly think is fake.
Kendall captioned the photos, "season 1 – season 15" and added in three laughing emojis to subtlety poke fun at their transformation.
Any time I pressed a direction, CHiP would race at its highest speed possible; a little subtlety here would be welcome.
It comes down to a subtlety that can only be explained by someone who, like myself, comes from old-old money.
For instance: Hitler analogies have already been overused this election, but Kakutani's winking subtlety gets the job done much more effectively.
As with Pacific last week, Exit—a submission from last year's GBJam and Pixel Horror Jam—knows that subtlety is key.
There were doubts Spicer could handle that dual role with the nuance and subtlety it takes to do the job well.
On "The Walking Dead," villains are usually introduced as such; there isn't much room for subtlety in the post-apocalyptic world.
All subtlety was lost and the component parts failed to complement each other, instead competing for attention from your taste buds.
It's a nicely suggestive trajectory, certainly, but this sort of subtlety has no real purchase, at least not on my son.
From Latin pop's history, iLe has absorbed the trickiest lesson of all: the subtlety that hides magnificent craftsmanship behind immediate emotion.
Even musicians approach the repertory with reverence and speak of its perfection, its subtlety, its delicate balance of structure and emotion.
I liked the opera best when Mr. Karchin's score calmed down, thinned out and depicted incidents with more mystery and subtlety.
Like "Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors" last year, it is inspired by her own childhood, and it's short on subtlety.
His pain as his fame dissipates is a study in restraint in an era of filmmaking not exactly known for subtlety.
Butterworth and Aunt Jemima, not to mention the molasses-colored boys who accompanied the main element of Kara Walker's A Subtlety.
Yet the larger mind-set in this show, with its love of rhythmic subtlety and geometric intricacy, is entirely un-Bauschian.
Jingle Ball doesn't reward subtlety — bad news for Khalid, who sang well and glowed with kindness, to little effect — or reticence.
This kind of subtlety is not of much use in politics, if we assume politics to be primarily about achieving power.
Given its New York premiere this summer by Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, it was work of impressive subtlety and confidence.
It had a delicacy and subtlety that we especially liked, and it was only $19, which made it our best value.
The former is far more compelling than the latter, largely thanks to it having a sense of subtlety the other lacks.
I've seen several productions that have made Shakespeare's original succeed by showing both its psychological subtlety and its central dramatic difficulty.
Here, Ms. Tayeh gets to play with subtlety and stillness, rather than the 60-second reality-TV routines of nonstop explosions.
What it would need is an actor-dancer of extreme subtlety, which is what Baryshnikov, in his late-sixties, had become.
Where last season they had admired his tactical subtlety and enjoyed his pep talks, now they were left befuddled and bemused.
I think the lack of subtlety in the name is part of the way that we actually achieve our end goal.
The subtlety of these little eye-darts that were very indicative of an inner life, these thoughts racing through Woody's head.
In its subtlety of handle design but exaggerated whip length, it's another reminder of life beyond the surface, beyond the ordinary.
He could paraphrase Burke with such subtlety that the reader can almost never tell where Burke leaves off and Kirk picks up.
Or you can try a really good Austrian riesling, like a smaragd from the Wachau, which will offer both weight and subtlety.
As a result, Public Enemies lacks the emotional and thematic subtlety that you get from a lot of the best DCAU episodes.
Where Battle of the Sexes may have lacked in subtlety, it made up for in queer representation—and that's a step forward.
At this point, subtlety isn't part of the strategy, and the time for parsing sentences and pulling punches appears to be over.
In most serialized television, character development means greater nuance or subtlety or more background; you learn more about the people you're watching.
Blanket calls for bot disclosure to date lack the subtlety needed to address bot speech effectively without raising the specter of censorship.
Not everyone will grasp this subtlety, but for those who do care a lot about privacy, it's a big advantage for Apple.
They're capable of incredible subtlety, projecting sounds so quiet and far away as to make me question where they were coming from.
The film plays out an intergenerational debate about Black womanhood and feminism, done with artful subtlety and immense respect for both sides.
Ms. Lavin fulfills these demands with such thoroughness and subtlety that I wish the play that surrounds her were more compellingly realized.
This sort of subtlety, this sort of organic, emotive, instant appeal is not something I ever expected Samsung would be capable of.
As fiction writers, we're not expected to be well versed in writing about power, the minutia, subtlety, complexity of it, the heartache.
"I turn Offset on / I told him the other day / 'We should get divorced,'" she rapped, leaving no subtlety about her meaning.
Essentially, American film doesn't have the heart for the very specific subtlety and depth of feeling that makes people love Japanese movies.
And The New York Post, paragon of subtlety that it is, ran the headline "Gipper Flick Fury," which mostly just sounds gross.
There's zero subtlety on the decision to perform that song: It's meant to foster a sense of connectedness between the two cultures.
All traces of subtlety soon went out the window and became completely overt – it was ON for Mom and the mysterious man.
That they're cartoonishly determined villains comes as no surprise, considering Ivan's characterization in that movie and Creed II's overall lack of subtlety.
Arendt asks us to reject ideology that serves to reduce populations of people to stereotypes and embrace plurality and subtlety in thought.
Donald Trump is not a subtle man, and the first night of the 2016 Republican National Convention reflected that lack of subtlety.
Texting with emoji is its own kind of art form, and like all great art, there is beauty in subtlety and interpretation.
But there is a need for subtlety too, so that consolidation is challenged without discouraging innovation, and excesses are curbed without overregulation.
Some tracks eschew subtlety in favor of recognizability, with samples like Darth Vader's breath in TroyBoi's "Force" sitting clearly atop the production.
But it's not, and the hilarious disregard for any kind of subtlety will have you rolling your eyes back to the '90s.
It's not particularly subtle, but Ken Burns has not built a career as an auteur of Americana on the back of subtlety.
Unfortunately, every single one of these actors is crushed under the weight of their roles, which have all the subtlety of concrete.
But Ms. Winocour, whose previous feature as a director was the intriguing historical drama "Augustine," pushes subtlety to the point of evasiveness.
"'Braggart, to my ears, is more formal than 'bragger,' so I thought our more erudite fans would appreciate the subtlety," he says.
They're two spring-colored beverages, served on ice, with an impressive subtlety of flavor and coconut milk for a fully-vegan experience.
It might ruin your appetite, but beneath the drama there are layers of subtlety and nuance in the video works and installation.
And it was all Fats Domino, the New Orleans musician whose easygoing image cheerfully concealed the boldness and subtlety of his music.
In addition to illustrating the subtlety of the author's narrative style, these minutiae add up to a tidy and quite credible solution.
The president laid out a case on Friday for acting with subtlety, so as not to start a tit-for-tat conflict.
But just because nothing extreme is happening this season, does not mean nothing is happening at all: Don't mistake subtlety for insignificance.
The added subtlety of the Invisible+ is worth it if you plan to wear them during the day or out in public.
If I have one criticism of Nest Cam Outdoor, it's that some of the hardware, like this AC/DC converter, lack subtlety.
And so, smartly, the latest round of marketing for the movie has leaned without a shred of subtlety into the Elba angle.
Liu masks his criticisms in poetry, metaphor, and subtlety, but leaves plenty of clues for anyone who wants to catch his drift.
Developers will be able to mix their own emotions, but their subtlety is limited to what the ring of sensors can pick up.
But it's also because, for the last eight years, we have been led by a president of amazing intelligence, and subtlety, and grace.
It's imperative you do your sexting with as much subtlety and secrecy as you can — just like Santa when he's sliding down chimneys.
Abstract subtlety seems threatened by crude pop obviousness now; subtle, abstract thinking and visual complexity are perhaps more important (albeit fragile) than ever.
Her finesse and subtlety have no doubt contributed to her being underrated, for she is arguably the true star of the Pictures Generation.
The Diaz sisters jump head first into previously, for them, uncharted territory; trading quiet subtlety for overt swipes at sexism and state violence.
But I also think the subtlety of just trying to illuminate some tiny, dingy corner of humanity — that stuff also sticks with people.
She taught me the subtlety of the different herbs/spices from around the world, that brings a new twist to a classic dish.
Feel The Bern Game of Thrones isn't exactly known for its subtlety, so "Stormborn" starts with a mega-storm pounding away at Dragonstone.
This is a show about subtlety, not just in their rakugo performances, but also in the things it tells us about the characters.
Well, it's people who understand there's a subtlety to the human nervous system that tech designers are not the most in touch with.
Victoria's Secret often treats its themes with as much subtlety as many people on Halloween do — which is to say, none at all.
When the show needed more and more subtext, it kept leaning into the biggest, most spectacular things possible, and all subtlety was lost.
It demands you acknowledge every bit of excoriation and subtlety, and it loops faith, family, and fidelity into a complicated and intimidating knot.
Claire Foy plays the part with subtlety and intelligence; her queen projects an authority she could never quite bring herself to believe in.
"You need attractive European tennis players so that you have something to do other than watch the..." Carton, master of subtlety, trailed off.
But the actors can perhaps be forgiven, since they are continually pushed into scenes that seem designed to halt subtlety in its tracks.
The human arm, he believed, combined simplicity, power, subtlety, and grace—an evolutionary marvel that was a fundamental part of the human experience.
The plays, masterpieces of exquisite subtlety, are set in the round, in the kitchen of the home of Mary Gabriel, a retired doctor.
Plus, Rob reveals the fascinating subtlety of pitching in MLB The Show 17, and Danielle updates us on Breath of the Wild's DLC.
The non-plot zips by, and even beyond the straight-talk translated dialogue (which, admittedly, is pretty 1995) there's a death of subtlety.
Make a plot of how effective stuff is versus its subtlety — which for simplicity we'll define as 1/visibility (my algebra is rusty).
It's not exactly rich source material and, to Banks's credit, she goes all in, with all the subtlety you expect of mainstream Hollywood.
"If you walk in expecting subtlety, or even novelty, you may find yourself more tormented than entertained," the Times's A. O. Scott wrote.
Over electric keyboard, piano, bass and hand percussion, he plays in cool, unhurried lines — halfway doleful, halfway glorious — communicating strength through subtlety. RUSSONELLO
But I believe that we underestimated the subtlety of the barriers and the need to think about systemic ways of crashing through them.
That argument, made with a bit more subtlety, may not prove decisive, but it has fundamentally shaped the landscape of the speaker's race.
Modern scholarship has added layers of interpretive subtlety but never quite escaped the pull of that polar contrast: Machiavelli, good guy or bad?
With great subtlety, Seurat unmistakably indicates class differences as well as a range of intimacies, creating one of the painting's most naturalistic moments.
Whatever the reason, the carousel reveal, given its subtlety, is a lower-key tactic for couples to show themselves off on social media.
But his subtlety, his crooked genius, lies in never needing to be told; he divines what you desire, before you know it yourself.
Throughout, with greater subtlety, the movie alludes to the mechanisms of the plot by setting major scenes on staircases or in railway stations.
As primarily a painter, he labors over his work, especially the surfaces of the canvases, which subtlety shift in texture, gradation, and hue.
Whereas Crosby's legend was built on subtlety and the facility with which he makes the extraordinary appear ordinary, Lafrenière is more the showman.
But as Elizabeth tries to tell her when Paige comes clean about the bar fight, her inattention to subtlety won't fly for long.
In fact, UnReal's only consistent thread of nuance is in how deftly Rachel manipulates her surroundings — and that's because subtlety is her job.
I love how these women are in control of their respective situations, how they always use smarts with subtlety, something I felt I lacked.
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But Ilker Yildirim envisions a robot that can operate with a bit more subtlety, a bot that needn't operate according to pre-programmed movements.
It could at times be tepid, but when inspiration struck him, as it still frequently did, it was a style that permitted marvellous subtlety.
In your essay "On Subtlety," you talk about how your experience of faith informs your writing on a narrative as well as content level.
Less violent and horrifying, more poignant and intimate, their works aim to communicate similarly complex messages to viewers, but through subtlety rather than shock.
If it's subtlety and nuance you're looking for, you won't find it here: Generation Doom spits straight in the face of the band's naysayers.
The books do for modern, monied Asians what Jane Austen did for the English landed gentry two centuries ago – only without the literary subtlety.
The new trailer, released today, has none of that subtlety — it seems like it's basically the whole movie condensed into a two-minute clip.
Poetic appropriations of atrocity as blithe exercises ready for publication ("in some place good") is critiqued here with the subtlety of a battle-axe.
With subtlety and grace, that novel clouded the legends of conflict in Egypt and Italy in doubts as dense as a Western Desert sandstorm.
Never a party noted for subtlety, it has already issued a blunt warning that Mrs May "would regret" allowing Tory MPs a free vote.
You spend more time with your initial abilities, and start to discover that behind these seemingly simple systems hides deeply satisfying layers of subtlety.
Throughout the album, various instruments provide florid ostinato shades, with increasing subtlety, filling in the background's every corner; the echo effects pile up endlessly.
As popular as this style has been, it's also turned off wine drinkers like me who prize restraint, earthiness and subtlety over sheer power.
Whether you're going for subtlety, or want the best way to dip your toe into the smart-home ocean, this is your best choice.
There is no defensive subtlety or exploitation of windows for countering through, Werdum's counter is to swing back hard and fight fire with fire.
His subtlety-free doodling was recently indulged with a feature exhibition at a reputable LA gallery, even though he's basically a mediocre editorial cartoonist.
Yet The Legacy of Lynching comes at a time when subtlety barely perks the ears of those who most need to hear and understand.
MITSUKO UCHIDA The queen of pianistic subtlety delves into Schubert with a pair of Carnegie recitals devoted to his sonatas — three each night. Feb.
Critic's Notebook MILAN — In the prelude to the Italian elections this month, the far-right League party did not distinguish itself for rhetorical subtlety.
Forget subtlety and restraint: Sometimes being an actor just means wearing loud wigs and garish clothes and rockin' the gaudiest accent you can muster.
There is another particular subtlety to the classic Ponzi scheme: Not just anyone can pull one off; doing so requires cleverness, charm and charisma.
But subtlety is part of the power of "American Factory," the new Netflix documentary that charts the reopening of a factory in Dayton, Ohio.
In a strange way, any lesson Ryan might have to learn might come from Farouk — of subtlety and the art of the eloquent gesture.
Shade (and it is "thrown," by the way) is a type of insult that is marked as much by its subtlety as its sharpness.
No subtlety or pussyfooting around here; we soon learn that the mother is fatally ill and in the midst of a drawn-out death.
Italian film director Gianluigi Perrone says that is because while Hollywood films often also carry a patriotic message, it is done with greater subtlety.
Daniel Ulbricht, always sparky and engaging, keeps gaining subtlety; but Andrew Veyette, another source of virile humor, is showing a few signs of coarseness.
The orchestra played with athleticism and verve, but little subtlety; playful interchanges among the woodwinds were muted behind a heavy curtain of string sound.
In both tastings, we found wines that combined intensity with balance and subtlety, indicating that the Sonoma Coast is a region of great promise.
But just as Glee often lacked subtlety with its messaging, the queer characters on AHS were often tortured or brutalized in very explicit ways.
Ms. Melnick is dedicated to the subtlety, nuance and crystalline clarity of everyday movement, and her performances, much like Ms. Mearns's, are mind-altering.
Things like "subtlety" or "logic" were thrown out the window, as Game of Thrones did whatever the polar opposite of "sticking the landing" is.
There is no subtlety in Imperial tactics; just keep throwing Stormtroopers and Tie fighters at the problem until it is no longer a problem.
"The coordinations and the subtlety and everything's going in different directions and not to use too much energy and too much muscle," she said.
Most recently, he used his trademark creepiness and subtlety to play a stalker of sorts in Ben Ockrent and Jake Russell's 2013 drama Dust.
And despite the badge not being something to shout about, the RDX displays the Acura "A" with about the same subtlety as a fireworks show.
Subtlety, as you can see from the seemingly infinite number of bathroom-related puns on the company's website, is not part of its PR strategy.
They contain moments of arresting subtlety and sensuality as well as — in the last three minutes or so of this clip — heart-pounding, thrilling, drama.
"I gotta tell you, for somebody who was worried about the subtlety of it, you blew the cover off that with that ring," Cuomo said.
Compared to more traditional flower competitions, picking the best vegging plants requires much more subtlety and observation because each strain looks different, he told me.
In fact, a White Rose of York is subtlety embroidered on both the shoulder and back of the dress, which hold the cape detail together.
The flavor of the Champagne, light and ethereal, doesn't overpower the subtlety of the cheese—but it does take a bit of the edge off.
The secret to his success, and the main rhetorical innovation he has brought to presidential politics, is to dispel subtlety altogether and make subtext text.
This has been accompanied by threats of varying subtlety that the U.S. could limit intelligence sharing with countries that build 5G networks with Huawei gear.
It's the breath between notes, the slight crackle around the edges, and the subtlety of the electric elements that really allows this album to flourish.
He doesn't bother with subtlety, or try to find ways to activate voters' prejudices while being able to claim he doesn't know what's going on.
This phone's capabilities — with easily created and shared TrueDepth images that are crisp, yet imbued with more of life's subtlety — will speed up that process.
It is the mystery of her power game, still lacking in subtlety and vulnerable to spasms of overcooked groundstrokes on too many game-turning points.
For its lucidity, force, wit, and elegance; for its subtlety and power; for its immediate impact and multiplying meanings; for the eloquence of Calder's forms.
We could laude the foley work, the way the camera moves around the set with so much subtlety that you forget it's an intricate miniature.
It's been described as a game of intuition and feel, full of "beauty, subtlety and intellectual depth"—words often used to describe human artistic projects.
The third remix from his debut album—"Location" featured Kehlani and Lil Wayne, "Let's Go" featured GoldLink—it favors youth and Auto-Tune over subtlety.
That's where Mr. Bean's delicious new comedy "The Nap" opened on Thursday night, directed with an assured balance of blatancy and subtlety by Daniel Sullivan.
His use of religious themes in conjunction with an exploration of same-sex desire reflects the subtlety necessary for 19th-century depictions of queer experience.
In a rare moment of actorly subtlety, Andrew Lincoln flashes a stunned, wounded look, as if wondering what could possibly be worth all this loss.
There is an inquisitorial whiff in the air, and my particular fear is that in true American fashion, all subtlety and reflection is being lost.
Since it's also a horror movie, subtlety can go only go so far, and the past becomes a trunk mined for spooky costumes and effects.
Social contagion fascinates us because its power seems out of proportion to its subtlety: We are so often unaware when it is happening to us.
Shows like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones have certainly made allusions, but only in the last few years has the subtlety washed away.
Ms. Nilsson's work stood somewhat apart from that of her peers, especially her watercolors of animalistic creatures which are rendered with extraordinary delicacy and subtlety.
It's not just his bad actions but it's his refusal to acknowledge even subtlety and nonverbally that his dishonesty and hypocrisy violate useful social norms.
Even at its nastiest the contest was conducted with advanced subtlety, both men expertly feinting to induce a counter that could be countered in turn.
De Cotiis eschews subtlety on another subject as well: He seems severely resistant to the commercial path of creating fabric lines or mass-produced furniture.
Only in the last story do we encounter a kind of subtlety that—so beguiling is Szalay's directness—we had not quite realized we lacked.
As you may have gathered, "Iphigenia in Splott" is a work with a confrontational social conscience, a state of mind that's rarely conducive to subtlety.
Woodrugh could have been defined purely by his issues — post-traumatic stress, closeted homosexuality, a false accusation — but Kitsch finds subtlety in his body language.
In an era that celebrates celebrity, vulgar loudmouths, puerile provocateurs, selfie-addicts, and excessive materialists, Merlin James prefers subtlety over din, less rather than more.
But by the end of the evening, even after Mr. Northam called leading Virginia Democrats to apologize, many in the state were dispensing with subtlety.
For his part, Yentob does not have a gift for subtlety—Cracked Actor is constantly interrupted by on-the-nose shots, like Bowie trying on masks.
Spielberg capitalizes on the common ground, offering up timely and inspirational rhetoric... but like Lincoln, the big speeches have all the subtlety of a Broadway musical.
Leto's performance was so void of nuance and subtlety, it made any subtext supertext, and turned the character into an agonizingly uncool failure of a villain.
The Your Mixtape playlist is interesting, but it can't yet compete with the subtlety and breadth of the daily and weekly playlists that Spotify serves up.
It's equal parts rock 'n' roll and glamour girl, with just as much edge as a David Bowie album cover and subtlety as Tinkerbell's pixie dust.
An old couple laments that they "didn't get it", that it "didn't seem to have any plot", that there was "not much…character development" or "subtlety".
Donald Trump is no master of subtlety ... 'cause it DEFINITELY looks like he just gave New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft the finger on national television.
Unapologetic melodrama is the best fit for shooters like Deus Ex, because subtlety looks grotesque when your avatar is personally capable of causing so much destruction.
Perhaps the most excruciating arc is Sam's mother, who comes off from Episode 1 as a helicopter mom having a rebellious phase, and it lacks subtlety.
Subtlety is not on the agenda here, either; these are big-moment stories that involve pregnancies, revelations about who is whose biological parent, and so on.
Most innovatively, it served as metaphor, expressing the productions' ideas about African-American history with greater eloquence, subtlety and direct appeal than their sometimes tendentious scripts.
Once Ms. Dorrance has warmed up the connections between viewers' eyes and ears, she can guide them into complexity, simultaneously increasing speed and subtlety of timbre.
While many brands opt for subtlety and make their earbuds black and antennaless, Apple made a product that looks like the head of an electric toothbrush.
I don't know that camouflage and subtlety actually created an advantage for Harpring, but I'm certain it's one of the things that makes Jokic so effective.
Kara Walker's Domino Sugar Factory-based, Creative Time-hosted A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby was one of 2014's most fashionable and political artworks.
There's not much subtlety here, but if you're looking to tide yourself over before the next half-season of The Get Down, it'll do just fine.
Avoiding subtlety whenever possible, cartoons rely upon visual stereotypes; and because they have only limited room for texts, they need to condense the subject's speaking habits.
With impressive subtlety, the translations recreate the playful irony that undercuts the incessant anguish in each story, an anguish that can become predictable and therefore tiresome.
And in Cori Thomas's "Lockdown" at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, where Keith Randolph Smith plays Wise with great warmth and subtlety, that response is an intended takeaway.
Pheby illustrates this point with compassion and subtlety in "Playthings"; the book's hybrid position between the historical and the fictional makes it all the more potent.
ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI When she gave a recital in New York last winter, this Italian soprano offered a tour de force of programming and interpretive subtlety.
Young's greatest skills are subtlety and silence, relating truths through allegory and meaningful detail, so her missteps often come when she reaches too far for insight.
Cousins powers Pelicans past Bucks NEW ORLEANS — DeMarcus Cousins plays basketball in bold, broad strokes, perhaps because subtlety in the NBA usually is reserved for chumps.
Maybe it was not as engaging at first, but its freshness, subtlety, salinity and complexity made each sip a delicious adventure that kept calling for more.
There was no subtlety in either President Xi Jinping's celebration of his country's raw power, or Hong Kong's rejection of the repressive rule behind that power.
Whether for proper photo composition or for subtlety, sometimes you want to make sure your smartphone&aposs flash is turned off before you take a picture.
What gave the David Hart collection an edge was the subtlety of the designer's tonal color selections — palest banana; faded ocher; mint green; Necco-wafer pink.
Anthony was wholly committed to the Knicks when this season began, but that attitude wavered as he took repeated public barbs of varying subtlety from Jackson.
But I can also appreciate what they do — the work they put into it, the subtlety with which they move or speak, the charm, the confidence.
Metal itself often lacks a certain amount of subtlety and tact, but like any good art, its best examples are imbued with creativity and human emotion.
This needlessly complicated setup leaves little space for the kind of subtlety required to achieve Mr. Stone's stated aim: to examine theater's historical attitudes toward women.
The phrase "Add Oil" has a very specific meaning in Cantonese and Hong Kong English, and it is important to understand the subtlety behind the term.
Don't even get me started on the final boss and subsequent cutscene, which resolves the story with all the subtlety of a power cord being yanked out.
The incredible subtlety of these images, which confound reproduction and require close looking, oblige one to bear eye witness, not only to violence, but to artistic virtuosity.
While sad, the character's demise was not too much of a shock -- because "Nashville" is as known for its subtlety as it is for its time travel.
However, Faith has a particular appreciation for public work and the impact it can have, especially when it's amplified by subtlety, whereupon it can become almost subversive.
A larger touchstone, especially on the title track, is Frank Sinatra — though Mr. Urie doesn't have the vocal subtlety or the empathy to flesh out his emulation.
More complexity lurks still in the rest of the sentence, of course, but it's another jump in complexity, subtlety and the computational power necessary to parse it.
It's a horrible display, and there isn't much subtlety in Clooney's point: this is an indictment of modern-day America, and he's not interested in hiding it.
If you don't have it, you'll still get the 4K resolution, but some of the color range and subtlety is going to be lost along the way.
Click here to view original GIFCredit: 1987MaouThe human voice, with all its subtlety and nuance, is proving to be an exceptionally difficult thing for computers to emulate.
For all that, it has to be said that Mahal is working the gimmick with a surprising amount of subtlety—just pay attention to what he's saying.
But what's good about a video installation is that there's more space for subtlety, and space for things that evolve more slowly, and often with less editorial.
Jack Hyde — talk about a character name: Like Grey or Steele, its metaphorical weight smacks you in the face with all the subtlety of a giant dildo.
I first gave the night mode a try on Samsung's AMOLED display on the Galaxy Note 7, and I admit its subtlety won me over almost immediately.
Westbrook explored this newfound liberty in his latest commercial, which has all the subtlety of the words "3-483" written on the eyes of a Crying Jordan.
Subtlety, it was only his hat that highlighted his passion for mind-altering substances—the cap featured the image of a unicorn in front of a rainbow.
Some specialists even see humor as the final frontier for artificial intelligence, because it requires mastery of sophisticated functions like self-awareness, empathy, spontaneity, and linguistic subtlety.
Writing in The Times about a 21927th Street gallery show of hers in 26, the critic John Russell praised the subtlety of the colors in her paintings.
For all the sublime refinement of Neymar's dribbling and passing, his acting this month has displayed all the finesse and subtlety of a reality show dust-up.
Her melodious concerto, based in smooth but not monolithic chorale textures, opened into shifting, glinting trios, duets and solos that bespoke subtlety, humor, even tenderness at times.
Her annual collections are long on subtlety and earthy textures, and they highlight an attention to detail that raises the concept of "slow fashion" to another level.
It is disturbing to see Ms. Thompson's range and subtlety so shamelessly trashed, and to see Laura Linney's intelligence similarly abused as a lonely, frustrated do-gooder.
Isolate just one sliver of the brilliance: the endless subtlety of her rubato, slyly shaping an innocuous part of the finale into a moment of deepest wonder.
Even with the spicy yogurt marinade in this recipe, I would still select from among these reds, but probably opt for primary fruit over age and subtlety.
"He doesn't care about his son," Cosio adds about Chris' dad, who is listed as "El Cucuy" in his son's phone — subtlety likening him to Mexico's boogeyman.
The report lays out attempts at a cover-up lacking any subtlety and efforts by Russia to portray Rodchenkov as a criminal mastermind eager to enrich himself.
It is a system of incalculable complexity and vast subtlety, as great a work of genuine and humane greatness as anything the hands of men have produced.
By 1964 that had all changed; he was using fewer notes, and each one took up more space, stating its case with subtlety but commanding greater attention.
Or do the president's judge-vetters have reason to believe that Judge Gorsuch shares a dim view of Roe but would approach its dismantling with greater subtlety?
The Mets are unabashed power hitters, a leading example of the modern hitting ethos: Don't worry about singles or subtlety, just work the count and do damage.
Huawei has never been one for subtlety in its marketing materials, but a recent Facebook video from the Chinese tech giant is one of its most cringy yet.
As a side note, the Pennywise incarnation of It has gotten much weirder since the Losers saw him in 1958, and he really doesn't go for subtlety anymore.
Razer might be redefining the gamer aesthetic with subtlety in less powerful laptops, but Alienware is showing that even the beefiest gaming laptop can still have some class.
Be sure to respond with a pleasantry and repeat the client's name in conversation if it helps you to remember it, but don't forget—subtlety is key.  3.
It wants to be a funny action flick and a heartfelt drama, hammering down the idea of family and hope with all the subtlety of a Transformer's punch.
An astute fan at BuzzFeed pointed out a positively heartbreaking subtlety in the scene at the funeral for the beloved Richard — Emily's husband, Lorelai's dad, and Rory's grandfather.
That complete lack of subtlety would make anyone angry, and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is clearly letting off some steam in an op-ed published in Axios today.
And while today's political climate certainly provides plenty of material to mine, the problem with BrainDead's approach is that not a single aspect of it contains any subtlety.
Where one side of band found beauty in subtlety, quietude, and patience, the other side saw blinding blasts of noise that are as disorienting as they are mesmerizing.
Despite sophisticated reporting in some quarters, many in the media are covering the controversy with all the subtlety of Robert DeNiro proclaiming "F--- Trump" at the Tony Awards.
Since Marvel loves its messed up family dynamics, Maximus seems to have studied at the Loki school of villainy, but apparently skipped the classes covering subtlety and showmanship.
"It really is the color of a summer sky with this beautiful brilliance and subtlety about the stone," said David Bennett, worldwide chairman of Sotheby's International jeweler division.
Samsung's never been much for design subtlety, but the IconX (with the notable exception of the pink version), surprisingly, don't go out of their way to stand out.
Subtlety isn't paramount; Jack Davenport, as a government emissary, is so coolly villainous that his white-linened lap only seems to be missing a hairless cat to stroke.
Her debut novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), made an immediate impact, landing with all the subtlety of a meteor, if a meteor could come from one's own planet.
This young lawyer, who has twice been a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing, may be brash, but he is also capable of depth and ­subtlety.
It's an effect maximized through naturalness and subtlety, qualities native to Manfred Honeck, who led the New York Philharmonic in both works on Thursday at David Geffen Hall.
Quite the incongruous moniker when you consider the subtlety of Montreal beatmaker Christophe Dubé's dreamy compositions or his reluctance to appear front and centre in his music videos.
What the short clip lacks in subtlety, though, it makes up for with no discernible details whatsoever: Again, I have absolutely no idea what this show is about.
"I'm a millennial," she proclaimed with all the subtlety of nails running down a chalkboard, during a brief speech focused on getting out the vote for, well, millennials.
A mind that views the pursuit of democratic freedoms and the long con of weaponized nationalism with subtlety and self-awareness is all too rare in any era.
Never one to preach subtlety, the Cameroon-native and former University of Kansas product took to social media to attempt to score a date with a couple celebrities.
Sotomayor approaches her characters and their problems with subtlety and tact, and is more interested in reading their glances and gestures than in putting words in their mouths.
Until an overly complex last section, she manages the trick well enough, rendering the atmospheric setting precisely and the psychology of her characters with deftness, strength and subtlety.
Shaun of the Dead and The World's End wrestle with deep emotional pain in a surprisingly honest way, tackling romance and friendship with more subtlety than many dramas.
Of course, Mr. Trump lacks the experience or subtlety that Mr. Bush — a former director of the C.I.A. and envoy to China — brought to that fraught diplomatic moment.
His younger Russian colleague Daniil Trifonov, who the next night played his own piano concerto with the orchestra, demonstrated how virtuosity can be enhanced by subtlety and nuance.
In an era of endless subtlety and stylistic diversity in dance music, Tiësto, the superstar Dutch D.J., is a standard-bearer for sledgehammer-blunt house and trance beats.
Despite my suspicion of cats, this remark stuck with me, as did an admiration for the subtlety of Chopin down in the foot-operated region of my instrument.
But this show felt bigger and brassier than either of those, as if the composer had decided to use every instrument in the orchestra and cast subtlety aside.
Hernandez's work has matured to display such subtlety and sensitivity that it's no surprise this book is capable of turning nostalgia for lost youth into a melancholic pleasure.
Stephen Hough is a writer, a painter, a poet and a composer, but above all he is a pianist of great subtlety, playful taste and wisdom worn lightly.
For as long as there have been music videos, there have been male artists flaunting their riches with zero subtlety and surrounding themselves with gyrating, nearly naked women.
Scholars at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam are correcting the historical record by degrees of subtlety, writing wall texts for the institution that indicate a different attribution.
The resulting climax is a bit awkward and forced — Butterworth's writing can often feel heavy-handed, and here he falls just short of managing both pathos and subtlety.
They impart very little meaning, have no context, no subtlety, they take a long time to find and understand and even on a good day they are frequently misunderstood.
A good publicist massages the situation to make whomever he represents look good; incapable of subtlety, Spicer is barely able to utter a sentence without causing a national crisis.
Although emotional subtlety can get lost when you're dealing with artificial instruments, the pulsating synthesizers and slamming beats perfectly highlight the otherworldly nature of literature's most famous villain's journey.
Bollinger's subtlety, his willingness to allow his work to steal up on us, is an invitation to share what would be, for most of his viewers, a foreign experience.
But Mars' choreographed dancing — he more or less took the Fly Girl role — specifically updated the new jack swing dance style with a different kind of hip-hop subtlety.
The latest cover for Stern, a German magazine, abandons any shred of subtlety — showing a lifelike image of Trump doing a Nazi salute while draped in American flag. Damn.
The imaginative use of percussion evoked faraway galaxies with more subtlety than the sometimes generic images of outer space featured in the production, otherwise effectively directed by Nancy Rhodes.
It's a testament to the subtlety of Pinckney's casually erudite style that the reader barely notices the depth charges being eased into the water in the book's opening sections.
Although an embittered, multiply divorced cancer survivor from a family blighted by the Holocaust, Dovaleh can elicit a "laugh of wonder at his precision, his subtlety, his theatrical wisdom".
His work makes no claims to subtlety in conveying its message — that beneath its cheery veneer, the United States harbors dark forces and virulent cynicism within its political system.
"What I was seeing [when Styles auditioned] was a very charismatic guy who clearly had a truthfulness and a subtlety in his ability to perform as a film actor."
That subtlety and nuance is partly why it's so hard to reconcile the actual film with the way it's being marketed, as a light ra-ra girl power funfest.
Where a cherry or orange-flavored seltz annihilates your palate with fake fruit flavor, the subtlety of coconut was enough to draw me in, and soon I was hooked.
Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince is full of subtlety and pathos, and never fails to leave room for interpretation, however much it might encourage you to think outside the hatbox.
It's a half-savvy, half-suspect way of making the sensei's regressive views on gender and masculinity more believable, even as they're issued with a cartoonish lack of subtlety.
Republican presidential candidates have often been fixated on manhood, but just like with other themes of conservative politics of the last few decades, subtlety has gone out the window.
After four movies, it's easy to forget the magnetism and subtlety of Hiddleston's performance, even though he had it from day one and still brings it to every scene.
When it comes down to it, there is a staggering lack of subtlety in these comparisons, and if the racial profile doesn't quite match then the comparison remains unmade.
Recorded in the mid-sixties, it covers the early years of The Beatles' career; tackling love and loss with all the subtlety you'd expect from a military marching band.
But because so many people effectively live inside its architecture while online, there's a power in a social network's subtlety that no newspaper or news broadcast could ever match.
One of the advertising industry's favorite buzzwords is "branded content," the idea that marketing messages can be conveyed with special subtlety through the guise of entertainment or even journalism.
I don't think we'll see anything like subtlety on that or any other issue over the next week; it's just wall-wall-wall on television and in campaign appearances.
Where grime ran into the short-fused ADD realm of 140bpm, the slower contours of rap instrumentals brought out the latent menace, pain and subtlety of Giggs's lyrical style.
Plaza employees remember her as a firebrand, a scourge who exploited every wrinkle in rent-control law with the subtlety and skill of a top-tier real estate attorney.
It's almost comforting knowing that we are in the able, busy hands of a veteran journeyman with few pretensions to subtlety, scene-painting and the stately march of history.
He had immersed himself for months in Lincoln's life, and colleagues said his renderings of Lincoln, and especially of the Gettysburg Address, were performances of remarkable subtlety and power.
But consummate artists like Behrens and Mr. Morris, working with a skilled director, trusted, rightly, that this restraint and subtlety would lend emotional richness and honesty to the scene.
But if, as an actual sheepdog might, you see the world in black and white, its humorless piety, self-righteous rectitude and complete absence of subtlety would seem appealing.
All of this is accomplished with great subtlety, a product no doubt of the mastery which garnered Houellebecq the Prix-Goncourt for a different book a few years earlier.
But it is a curious choice to finally stand up for political subtlety, and for not painting with a broad brush, with your back turned to Donald J. Trump.
It's stunning in terms of both its depth and subtlety when it comes to the relationship between a writer and her housekeeper who is stoic, imaginative and intensely prideful.
Charting an alternative path of reconciliation and respect for human rights would require a subtlety in dealing with dissent that Xi's administration has so far not shown evidence of.
On his 2016 album, "Nat Love," and the more recent EP "Grey," Mr. Collins raps and sings with subtlety and aplomb; these are releases that demand, and reward, attention.
She's also doing a Meryl Streep impression that, if not subtle, is still effective (and frankly, subtlety would be out of place among the spangles and Swede-pop covers).
Araud continues to restate his basic position, even in the tweet above sent after Noah's response was released, without grasping the subtlety of Noah's points about context and identity.
"Middlemarch," George Eliot It took me too long to appreciate the subtlety and vision of Eliot (pen name for Mary Ann Evans) and the slow-burning pleasures of her storytelling.
Sometimes these growths would appear on the front, other times on the back, but they pretty uniformly conquered high-end handsets with all the speed and subtlety of a virus.
But there's no doubting its expertly calculated savagery, industrial guitar riffs rippling through tracks titled "Rip & Tear" and "Flesh & Metal" with all the (purposely absent) subtlety of the game itself.
I love the subtlety of its world building, too, the way you're able to grasp the backstory of the crashed ship and the malevolent corporation without much dialogue on them.
It would rob English of some of its subtlety resulting from a history of borrowing: triplets like kingly (Germanic), regal (Latinate) and royal (Latin via French) have a different feel.
Discussions of Colton Underwood's virginity dominated this past season of The Bachelor, and while ABC is admitting they went overboard with the topic, the series isn't known for its subtlety.
The rapper, who has always been known for having impeccable restraint when it comes to his emotions, did not halt his characteristic subtlety with the release of the new single.
I know you're supposed to begin book reviews with subtlety and a nod to storytelling's past and the long literary tradition that the book has managed to hook itself onto.
Though Parris is fantastic in the lead role, Lee isn't always great about adding depth and subtlety to his female characters, especially when one of the main topics is sex.
Unlike Mercury retrograde, which can have a jarring effect on our everyday routines, Venus' retrogrades drift into our lives with greater subtlety, aiming for our hearts rather than our schedules.
It's unusual to see a poet write poetry with philosophical subtlety — the diametrical opposite of the Conceptual Poets who use allegory and trompe l'oeil effects  to make a larger point.
Although much of the sexism against Clinton has been slightly implicit, her opponent, for whom subtlety is an entirely foreign concept, has made his gendered condescension toward her crystal clear.
But what really has them appalled is the way Trump took the appeals they used to make with at least a veneer of subtlety, and tore that veneer right off.
Rather than turning to Holst or Beethoven or Debussy for a melodic base, they leaned on "Battle Hymn of the Republic," a backup National Anthem, doing away with subtlety completely.
For example, Marilyn Minter's high-gloss inkjet prints of women's pubic areas, framed by their manicured hands (Plush series, 21980), fetishize with all the subtlety of a porn-magazine spread.
Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised by the subtlety of something called "horse whispering," but I was blown away by Grant's understated yet somehow ultra-effective communication with the horse.
That heightens the focus on Underwood's wife, Claire (Wright), who brings a bit more subtlety to the process of governing but proves no less skillful at manipulating those around her.
She was excited to discover that Ms. Nathan's basic recipes weren't all that different from her grandmother's — their flavors just had "a little more subtlety," she said with a laugh.
Coming up with a compelling enough story because this season set a bar so high, in terms of subtlety and quality, that if you can't do that again, why bother?
The dozen or so smaller paintings in the show, most done in acryla gouache on watercolor paper, manifest a sense of tension between bluntness of message and subtlety of means.
His latest book, "The Sparsholt Affair," which came out in England in October and has just been published in the United States, is a work of characteristic subtlety and forthrightness.
Think of me as a story's first and worst reader: doubtful, questioning, blind to subtlety, skeptical of the facts, regularly prodding editors and reporters to do something more or different.
She was inspired in her search for a space when she saw the power of Kara Walker's 2014 sculpture "A Subtlety" in the former Domino Sugar factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
As a novelist, she has a wide tonal range, moving from sarcasm to solemnity, austerity to playfulness; she can toggle between extremes of subtlety and unsubtlety from book to book.
"This dress is a perfect example of couture in dance, due to the perfection and simplicity of its cut, and the detail and subtlety of its embroidery," Mr. Noisette said.
With its notes of class consciousness, the film is "splendidly rich and wise," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times, adding that its stars display "uncanny subtlety and tremendous soul."
Hers was not a simple action of imitation, however: on the contrary she pursued, with relentless subtlety, a three-dimensional potential implicit in the drawings but not realized by LeWitt.
That much-deserved win will be seen by some as an upset of early front-runner Casey Affleck, whose performance in Manchester by the Sea was a master class in subtlety.
He was a defender who clocked up 236 career goals; a centre-back who was his team's chief playmaker; a player of magisterial subtlety whose signature move was his bludgeoning shot.
You can see in the ad a character on the left labeled as "obese" and the one on the right dubbed "pretty" ... we guess subtlety is not part of the game.
This added layer of immersion and subtlety not only makes sense for the series, but also as a new focus for bringing the popular horror entertainment of recent years to life.
Anybody who spent time in the low-stakes-but-ego-ridden world of high school debate knows: Debate is a terrible way to address a topic with any semblance of subtlety.
The Belgian media not being one for subtlety, local outlets have taken to calling Poppe the "Deacon of Death," which is honestly one of the least sensational details surrounding the case.
As part of a weaning process, those next episodes only include cameos by Stamos and Coulier, delivered with the exact level of subtlety that brought the Harlem Globetrotters to Gilligan's Island.
To learn more about the effect these comic techniques have on the reader, and to see more examples of subtlety of artwork in The Walking Dead, watch the full video below.
They argue that the subtlety, flexibility, informality, and idiosyncrasy of scholarly mentorship cannot coexist with the bureaucracy and contestation of a union workplace, from wages-and-hours agreements to collective bargaining.
But I think The Americans occasionally earns a little non-subtlety, and I liked how something Copperfield meant as a cheesy political statement was explicitly recodified as one about personal freedom.
But all the subtlety and depth in the script can't hide the fact that this is still a movie about six minutes of action, and Sully often feels padded and repetitive.
But the program touched on hotly contested themes like patriotism, race and the legacy of slavery — and did so with a degree of subtlety and grace not often seen in politics.
Andee Buccheri is a confident Val, giving "Dance: 10; Looks: Three" a wit that befits its celebration of cosmetic surgery, and Tino Ardiente brings welcome subtlety to the hesitant, damaged Paul.
Wrong. As deft as Werner Herzog may be at picking up on the subtlety and absurdity of the human condition, he may have missed the mark on the psychology of chickens.
The Friday eclipse won't be like a dramatic total lunar eclipse, which can turn the moon a deep shade of red, but a penumbral eclipse is still beautiful in its subtlety.
It's hard to look so deeply into other people's lives that you really understand them, except perhaps through fiction, and that is what Montemarano has done here, with deftness and subtlety.
Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere miniseries — an adaptation of Ceste Ng's 2017 novel of the same name — is being subtlety marketed as a soul sister to HBO's blockbuster drama Big Little Lies.
You need satellite imagery to confirm tree cover, as well as those spot checks on the ground to make sure the landowners aren't thinning the forest, a subtlety satellites might miss.
He arrived on the pop culture landscape of the 1970s with the subtlety of a mushroom cloud, serving as the globally recognized face of punk rock, as well as its id.
It cannot be said too often that all other dancers can learn from watching the Indian forms: the power and subtlety of gesture, the focus of eyes, the complexity of phrase.
When participating in a themed compilation, one always has to strike a balance between faithfulness to the prompt and artistic self-expression, but the Flaming Lips have never dealt in subtlety.
His wealth and fame gave him a leg up on other GOP aspirants in the race for the 2016 nomination, but his incapacity for nuance or subtlety did the real work.
With as much subtlety and sophistication as a sledgehammer, social media erupted after Felicity Huffman's 14-day sentence was announced, with commenter after commenter saying her sentence was way too light.
Foy is best known for the Netflix series "The Crown," in which she plays the young Queen Elizabeth II, a role that allowed her to express her range with intricate subtlety.
Visually they find the artist returning fully to two dimensions after her triumphal public sculpture, "A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby," the monumental and vexatious sugarcoated woman-sphinx of 2014.
SUNDAY PUZZLE — Will Nediger has a Ph.D. in linguistics and a career in puzzles and trivia, and I already considered him an artist of some subtlety before working on this grid.
Audio-Technica's effort here is true to the company's reputation for designing long-lasting and durable products, but it fails on the basic requirements of elegance, subtlety, and, to some extent, comfort.
G. I sometimes feel conflicted about photographers capturing the culture of other places (appropriation, tropes, lack of subtlety, among other reasons) but I can't get enough of Patrick Wack's work in China.
Yushin Okami was considered by many to have an excellent jab but really just stepped in with it again and again, there wasn't much subtlety like say, a Georges St. Pierre jab.
The genius of his performance lies in its subtlety – he's never a cackling villain, just an all-too-recognizable regular dude who thinks the world owes him far more than he got.
While her top isn't exactly the most traditional version of the "pussybow bow blouse," no one every accused Cyrus of subtlety — and clearly she wanted to make her message loud and clear.
When they work, as they did for me, you hear more detail, more subtlety, in music without cranking it to very high volumes — a practice that can damage your hearing over time.
Jessica Pratt has always made the most out of subtlety, not needing more than her arresting warble and sparse arrangements to make some of the most memorable folk of the last decade.
This final scene wasn't my favorite kind of GoT final scene — it was far too hyped, and lacked the left-field subtlety of world-expanding WTF moments like last week's de-necklacing.
That intangible sense of continuity, of weight, is missing here, so that you are always aware of the faintly humming machinery of the script, and of the willed subtlety of the performances.
When Kara Walker's enormous frosted sculpture A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby appeared in Brooklyn's old Domino refinery three years ago, it drew 130,000 visitors, gracing endless selfies before being demolished.
" He could also use that talent for subtlety to craft an unsettling horror story like "The Tree Is My Hat," or an equally unsettling character study like "The Death of Doctor Island.
And I think when you begin to mix subtlety with altering elements of reality, it can hook that feeling of surreal familiarity that I think a lot of people crave in art.
The performer Chiharu Mamiya moves with subtlety and intensity as she responds to the shifting projections that place her alternately in an apartment, a birdcage and among tatami mats that consume her.
His 'nodder', the act of dropping the head below the opponent's as they advance, is a masterpiece of subtlety and more damaging than any punch he could apply in the same opening.
That is part of his ambiguous power in the book, the idea that, owing to his unusual quickness and subtlety of mind, Washington can be trusted to know more than he should.
In the less fervent "Die Orden der Nacht" ("The Orders of the Night," 1996), subtlety and complexity are sacrificed in favor of stark contrasts between man and nature, suggestive of folklore allegory.
The poetics of everyday speech in small town America is encountered anew by the estranging effects of Ashley's sly interventions as ready to hand phrases become magnified and loaded with increasing subtlety.
Shot on beautiful 16mm and constructed with marvelous subtlety, Maison du bonheur is a work of empathic delight, conveying the feeling of a life lived while providing only a glimpse at it.
I mean, The Red Goddess should be allowed to do as she pleases, so strut in your birthday suit all you want, but Agony wields its imagery with the subtlety of a brick.
It is like writing a school or university essay: you might think it's a bit on the nose to keep explicitly relating your content to the title but subtlety doesn't check the boxes.
As the movie moves toward its climax, Scott drops any subtlety about the sexual themes, and puts two of the surviving crew members into a steamy shower, where they're preparing to have sex.
But in delivering his final speech, it seems as though Obama has mastered another social subtlety: the subtweet, the Twitter-world equivalent of trash-talking someone without ever acknowledging his or her existence.
President Woodrow Wilson tried to wield it with subtlety, explaining that America needed to think of itself first, but to be ready to be Europe's friend once the first world war was over.
Clockwise from right: A Fantastic Woman, Get Out, Dunkirk, Your Name Why wouldn't a year that has had no use for subtlety end with the Los Angeles area literally going up in flames?
It wasn't that people were against being upfront about the contents of their website (pornographers aren't really known for subtlety), and it wasn't that anyone wanted to trick kids into accessing their content.
It's mimicking the same strategy that Razer took with the Blade 15 — subtlety over attention — while its competitors continue to release laptops with "gamer styling"; they're making the same mistake with gaming phones.
It is a future in which presidential oratory will rise beyond paratactic strings of superlatives or fulminations of invective to acknowledge through its complexity and subtlety of expression the nuances of our world.
But the subtlety of said shade is what has us sipping our scalding-hot tea, widening our eyeballs ever so slightly to the left (à la Beyoncé), and quietly exiting the battlefield. Phew.
It was partially about the de-evolution of love and intimacy, among a ton of other things, like cooperate greed and the subtlety of a cat wandering through a parking lot/trash pile.
In the leftist world of the theatre, where nearly everyone works for nothing and most playwrights are worried about making rent, plays about business often have all the subtlety of a tuba player.
Set in Japanese-occupied Korea in the early 20th century, it follows a love story (of sorts) between an heiress and her new maid, one that unfolds with both subtlety and outright perversity.
Detroit: Become Human mostly comes across as a crude imitation of themes better explored in Westworld, substituting that show's philosophical depth for the subtlety of social politics in Netflix's orc cop movie Bright.
Both Food52 and Lifehacker advocated for substituting Kewpie mayonnaise—which is a touch sweeter than most commercial American mayonnaise, its flavors more subtle—with Hellmann's, whose flavors have the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
The trouble for Mrs Clinton is that, despite her cool head, tough streak and ironclad grip on policy, she lacks the subtlety and easy charisma that lesser politicians would deploy to change gears.
Sean Hannity, never one for subtlety, used the p-word in a segment last night that attempted to blame the "deep state" for the Trump administration's many failures in its first 50 days.
It's got better separation and bass response than anything else in its size and boasts a nuance and subtlety of sound that pays off the 212 years Apple has been working on it.
Iniesta was at his side, but Iniesta, all 5-foot-7 of him, was free to bewitch opponents with his footwork, quickness, subtlety and freedom to play a more advanced role than Xavi.
If you've watched one of this summer's World Cup soccer matches for 28500 minutes, or even seen the highlights on the news, you've been subtlety exposed to global energy politics and Russian propaganda.
Though there was subtlety in how Miles muttered, One always ached to hear a song line uttered With definition, lyrical and real: A well-timed silence puncturing the swing Only to add propulsion.
That delicate edging is the last bit of subtlety to be found in this production, which almost immediately devolves into a loud, in-your-face spectacle that shamelessly begs for laughs and applause.
In the Constellation of the Black Widow is the musical equivalent of a nuclear bomb, with all of the destructive power that that entails and with the utter lack of subtlety to match.
I'm very craft obsessed—I work as a cinematographer as well—and I wanted to make a beautiful movie that brought a light to the nuance, subtlety, and melancholy of being a teenager.
Whether Taylor and Landes are aiming for subtlety or deniability — whether "Ma" is a critique of racial thinking or an experiment in color-blindness — is a question to ponder, if you're so inclined.
Despite the intense scrutiny, all six of Mr. Tseden's feature films have received the official "dragon seal" of approval from Chinese censors — a testament, critics say, to the subtlety of his cinematic expression.
It's a wine known for its finesse, elegance and subtlety, as opposed to the power and majesty of Latour and the flamboyance of Mouton Rothschild, owned by a different branch of the family.
Because Little Fires Everywhere is that kind of adaptation: At every chance it has, it turns away from its source material's subtlety and nuance in favor of amping the melodrama up to 11.
It is typical of Nguyen's subtlety, however, that the presumed extortion is on behalf of a sincere, if misbegotten, venture involving the sewing of uniforms for South Vietnamese soldiers by a woman, Mrs.
In popular culture, autobiographies, and media it plays out as a thrilling narrative but makes for poor history, lacking the subtlety, nuance, and ambiguities that in fact shaped King's era and our own.
As designed by the ever-ingenious Soutra Gilmour, and lighted with whispering subtlety by Jon Clark, the set remains a sort of modernist blank slate, like an abandoned contemporary showroom — or, perhaps, laboratory.
Like, if I moved it from a tabletop into a corner on my roof, I'd notice a subtle shift after a few seconds, and I think subtlety is what Sonos is after here.
Four-to-the-floor kicks and Technicolor synth hooks abound, but there's subtlety as well—"The Dissolve" finds the duo floating with Isles down a moonlit tributary of frequency-modulation synths and vaporous vocals.
"I definitely think people are highlight obsessed these days and subtlety isn't always the name of the game so it feels like a natural extension for highlighter to be on the ear," he says.
There isn't much subtlety to the debates about human consciousness and artificial intelligence, nor is there much complexity to the gruffly violent characters, but the film has a nightmarish atmosphere all of its own.
The screener must read when, where, and how to set a screen in order to start the action, which requires a lot of subtlety and the ability to read the defense second-by-second.
All subtlety in such matters was thrown to the wind by Donald Trump, who said outright that the GOP health care plan would have "insurance for everybody," no cuts to Medicaid, and cheaper premiums.
But in a SiriusXM Town Hall interview with EW's Anthony Breznican, the actress, 26, revealed that she loves Josh Gad's take on LeFou's maybe-maybe-not crush on Gaston [Luke Evans] for its subtlety.
It's the subtlety of the animation as a whole, alongside good writing and a definite sense that whoever directed the scene knew what they were doing, and might well have been working from experience.
She's right, of course; subtlety is not one of Kingdom Hearts' strengths, a game that's always saying the quiet part loud, and no doubt, one of the central reasons Kingdom Hearts proves so polarizing.
Villanelle, never one for subtlety, goes out and seduces a woman around Eve's age with the same curly hair, calling her "Eve" before running away and demanding that the confused woman go find her.
With a subtlety born of years spent in China, Johnson explains how traditional rituals help people overcome urban anomie and answer the "pragmatic but profound issue of how to behave" at critical life junctures.
Unfortunately, anyone who has watched Trump negotiate with Democrats over sensitive issues like gun control and immigration shouldn't have much hope that he will display the subtlety or sensitivity necessary to create meaningful change.
What it lacks in nuance, in storyline unexpectedness and subtlety, it more than makes up for in accomplished ass-kickery, and deserves this second chance to impress anyone who passed on it first time.
Monika Sommer, the museum's director, said the "subtlety and fragility" of "The Voices" matched how her museum wanted to help the country look at the past: "We don't want any finger-pointing," she said.
Lowenstein in Suite 1001-1003 as "a scourge who exploited every wrinkle in rent-control law with the subtlety and skill of a top-tier real estate attorney," and, at best, an eccentric character.
If Bagge is determined to continue with biographical comics, I hope he follows the impulse that led him to include this image, challenging himself to find greater subtlety in both draftsmanship and storytelling. Fire!!
In its protest against culinary subtlety, Pizza Hut took a large pizza, surrounded it with a crown of 28 tiny hot dogs, sort of pigs-in-a-blanket style, and served it with mustard.
"Everything Else" ("Todo lo demás"), the first narrative feature from the documentary filmmaker Natalia Almada, is a low-key character study whose gently repetitive rhythms mask an unusually keen sense of nuance and subtlety.
Indeed, were it not for the contrast with the dire fates of Taim and Omar, they might be characters in a telenovela, though they are enacted by an excellent cast with much more subtlety.
She finds the truth in it by refusing to succumb to type, adding depth to her line readings and subtlety to her physical performance that reveal instead the emotional core her character over-protects.
Walker's video depicts visitors who are, alternately, celebratory, embarrassed, or awed; they take pictures of "A Subtlety," each other, and themselves, often drawn to the transgression of touching "naughty" parts of the naked form.
She also might have mentioned recent documentaries on Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbitt— women whose stories are now being scrutinized with more subtlety, and with an eye to how sexism shaped their public narratives.
But it also resonated because of the writing, which has the subtlety and surprise of great fiction, and because it refuses to mine stoner culture for cheap laughs of the "Up in Smoke" variety.
It swells to a euphoric crescendo, but there's a subtlety to the song—perhaps an overarching airiness, which imbues it with a great deal of space —that leaves room for reflection amid the rush.
I've always been a sucker for fragments,  where the harsh blade and the delicate patina of centuries reconfigure shapes and dimensions, add subtlety to surface, and glaze the beauty of age across pristine colors.
Despite the 47-year-old reputation for churning out witty, double-entendre-laced bars over the span of his decades-long career, all subtlety was tossed out the window on his recent 4:44 album.
You know that a song's reached mass-cultural status when Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum are trying to "sing" along to a chorus that Lil Jon basically screams with all the subtlety of Golden Joe.
In a departure from her high-profile role as a Marvel superhero, Johansson's turn as Nicole Barber, an actress, wife, and mother in the throes of marital crisis, is breathtaking in its power and subtlety.
In the same vein, Mr Maduro, a man not known for subtlety, began his recent trip by visiting Chairman Mao's mausoleum in Tiananmen Square, bowing and calling the embalmed tyrant a "giant of revolutionary ideas".
The Walking Dead generally has all the subtlety of a baseball bat to the head, but when it plays to its strengths — balancing action with well-earned character development, it can be a thrilling ride.
And when Luka Modric is on the field for Croatia, or Andrés Iniesta for Spain, we know there will be subtlety and supreme ability to find a colleague with passes invented out of their imagination.
Martin — who lived alone in the New Mexico desert for decades, died in 2004 at 92 and is currently the subject of a quietly majestic retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum — made paintings of serene subtlety.
On a block where subtlety has no role, they exhibit refined artistry, with color gradients that make it appear as if sheer, feathery muslin had been draped over 21993 lines radiating from a compass rose.
This is the emotionally fraught terrain Ms. O'Connell has walked with subtlety and ferocity over some 40 years as an actress, most prominently on the New York stage but also in film and on television.
It is a mark of McGuire's subtlety as a novelist, however, that he leaves this in the shadows while placing at the forefront enough felt life and closely imagined detail to resist any simple categories.
If you need any more proof that subtlety is dead, Donald Trump tweeted a Breitbart article headlined, "Director David Lynch: Trump 'Could Go Down as One of the Greatest Presidents in History'" on Monday evening.
For all the accolades his defense rightly receives, Perez has sometimes struggled at setting helpful targets and framing pitches, tasks that call for some subtlety and which are weighed highly in assessing a catcher's value.
I'd love to see her outside that context, if only to figure out who the hell she is and why every time Elliot thinks of her, it's "NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!!!" with even less subtlety.
Instead of sales metrics or star power, Big Ears contemplates the perceptual properties of music: shades of dissonance and consonance, the particular qualities of a drone, the ever-changing applications of subtlety and brute force.
" Unlike the twee genre paintings of the era, engravings in illustrated newspapers depicted starving Irishwomen as abject Madonnas, their pathos augmented by the medium's "coarse network of cross-hatchings … its lack of nuance or subtlety.
Maybe it's Harry's subtlety, Markle's mini bag, or their unwavering support for each other, but if you ask us, the success of this look is just another example of the power of the green dress.
Titled "A Subtlety, or The Marvelous Sugar Baby," it centered on a monumental, brilliantly white (because it was sugar-covered) sphinx with the head and breasts of a black woman that was majestic yet sexualized.
The unexpected subtlety and pathos of Bow's final close-ups are both a tribute to her and to the skill of Josef von Sternberg, then a Paramount contract director, who filled in — uncredited — for Lloyd.
In effect, Bannon is trying to be both Dick Cheney and Karl Rove — the Darth Vader of counterterrorism and the architect of a domestic realignment, except with less experience, subtlety and political support than either.
Be it a way to refrain from "bragging" or just a turn to subtlety, the carousel reveal, according to people who have done it, is a way to ease into a posting about a relationship.
"Often the subtlety of sound may go unnoticed, but it can have a profound impact on the atmosphere of a scene and fundamentally change how a viewer responds to it," the company writes in an announcement.
Somehow, though, this earnest, anodyne remake has managed to surgically extract the magic — leaving the story and signature lines intact while suctioning out all the subtlety, charm and lead chemistry that defined the iconic 1987 original.
He can explore the subtlety of the weather, marveling at its mysteries, the way he has for his small but loyal community of readers for years, but especially since he established his site in October 2015.
If the person looking to break in isn't worried about subtlety, they could just physically force the user to unlock the biometric security anyways, or possibly scan the user's face while they were sleeping or incapacitated.
Firehose, as she calls him, is the most blatantly two-dimensional character on 9-1-1, perhaps because like his alter-ego, actor Oliver Stark has yet to absorb the wisdom and subtlety of his costars.
But honestly, this stuff all works, and they're getting much better at subtlety and suggestion in Season 2 — if they stay on this curve, Bosch may graduate from guilty pleasure to truly great by Season 3.
But this collection also left us wondering if Kang's choice of stitching on intimidating messages across jumpers, scarves and coats, would be much better appreciated 10 years ago when the fashion world didn't yet embrace subtlety.
Unlike director William Wyler's adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, this "Ben-Hur" dispenses with any subtlety in its depiction of Jesus (Rodrigo Santoro), who makes several key appearances as his story parallels and crosses Judah's path.
His performance gives credible tension to a love triangle that otherwise might have seemed superfluous, even if it's a subtlety that was lost on my adolescent self, too consumed with Ryan Gosling to notice anything else.
While the act resonates with Newsome's flag removal, Clark stated to one participant, "this is a very different kind of action […] that's more about the subtlety of what we do every day" to combat social injustice.
I think it is safe to say, however, that a growing number of Americans every year appreciate wines that offer the sort of subtlety and nuance that is rarely possible to achieve in the mass market.
" And then continues with her signature lack of subtlety: "You said that was the reason for your pain, but you were scared to ruin your family's name, your wife's the only one glad we are over.
You put me in a jazz setting where there's a lot of subtlety involved and I might be able to pull it off, but people'd rather go with someone who has the 'right' ears for it.
Credit must go to the extraordinary cast, especially the amateurs who blended in seamlessly: Suzy Cocco is heart-rending as Ihsane's mother, while Fabian Leenders, a warehouse agent, delivers with subtlety as one of the killers.
On Day 4, back-to-back concerts from the vocalist Imani Uzuri (with Kassa Overall accompanying her on drums) and the poet Mike Ladd (helming a seven-person ensemble) addressed the topic with subtlety and vision.
Through the smoke, two things are clear: Mr Bolsonaro's policies are profoundly destructive of the Amazon rainforest, and deterring him will take much more subtlety abroad and more determination from opponents and even allies at home.
His urge to live all he can is matched by his eloquence, his restless mind striving beyond its own confines in tones that are sometimes overstretched, if brilliant, and then filled with calm subtlety and nuance.
Even the venerable Mr. Cooper can't make Marrow coherent in his fecklessness, and a subplot in which a retired teacher returns to the school to lead a seminar in "thinking" has the subtlety of a shoehorn.
And when Terry asks Holt if he should report the incident, the episode can rely on Crews and Braugher to bring subtlety to the unusually frank discussion — especially when it turns out they are at odds.
" Trump is not known for his subtlety: Indeed, as NYU professor and former Nixon Library director Tim Naftali observed to Vox's Dylan Matthews earlier this year, "At times Trump acts publicly the way Nixon acted privately.
Seemingly unable to process the subtlety of that position, Carlson insisted he was just trying to understand Duca while purposefully trying not to understand her — a situation that eventually prompted Duca to just put it out there.
Hashtags already serve as coarse filtering, but using machine learning on the backend to introduce more subtlety would give filtering a new richness and precision that exceeds hashtagging — which is limited to the simple user-created categories.
" Ti Lovelace, Cinefix:  "Barry Jenkins' direction pairs with a stellar cast of veterans and newcomers alike to highlight the strength of subtlety in performance, all woven into a story with issues that are far too seldom discussed.
Subtlety—which has subsequently dissipated as the genre's rolled itself into a churn of raw Beatport fodder—was key, and DJs and producers alike sought to incorporate the nuances with one sound with those of the other.
Never interested in the kind of subtlety shown when men demonstrate their strength by daring to show a soft side, Trump does not comfortably display affection and has a long record of making disparaging comments about women.
Over the past week, both Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt made the same appeal to American nationalism, with differing degrees of subtlety: Breaking up Big Tech will only help China.
While he's not necessarily averse to subtlety, as songs like "Resistance" prove, HudMo's a bloke known for liking the bold, brash, and bolshy in this life, and it's that route his taken with this Twitter released remix.
Isabelle Arsenault — a master of expressive subtlety and one of the most exceptional illustrators of our time — offers the perfect visual counterpart to that aliveness, rich in consummate patterns and a regal palette of blues and reds.
" In her essay on the way the #MeToo movement has been staged in the news, almost like a bad drama from The CW, Chu jabs, "Woke TV has all the moral subtlety of an after-school special.
I found the placement of the theme clues today quite pleasing, and, although this might be a subtlety, the entries conspired to almost make this puzzle a pangram — a grid that uses every letter in the alphabet.
And yet at the end Ms. Maclean forsakes all the unsettling subtlety and nuance she has had so clearly in her command to serve up a finale that I found frankly confounding, despite its having been foreshadowed.
Along the way he also began to experiment with slow-motion videos, taking inspiration, he said, from photographers like John Stanmeyer, who uses the format to render subtlety and quiet changes of mood a still photo cannot.
Since excess subtlety has a way of shriveling R&B until its attenuated shell, stripped of any residual genre marks, dissipates into the wind, it's worth stressing that Ctrl is a sneakily hooky album in the best way.
Runtime: 30 minutes Debuts: Friday, October 28, on Amazon This journalism drama about the real-life fight by women to gain credit for their work at Newsweek (reimagined here as "News of the Week") doesn't exactly boast subtlety.
Runtime: one hour Debuts: Tuesday, October 11, at 20153:30 pm on ABC The show formerly known as The Second Fattest Housewife in Westport does nothing to add subtlety to the eyebrow-raising premise of its original title.
As engrossing as such psychosocial dynamics might be, once you throw in sexual proclivities that feel a little too obvious for even network TV, you've got a drama with all the subtlety of a Wall Street-themed ride.
FROM COINAGE: Here's How To Save on Concert Tickets So You Still Have Money For Merch Not one for subtlety when it comes to his body art, Bieber went even bigger for the second addition to his collection.
Second, it's important to note that as cool as this all sounds, it's still unbelievably crude compared to the subtlety and intricacy of the nervous system — we're nowhere near that level of control or even understanding of it.
A triumph of research and plot over character and subtlety, Clavell's historical novel about an Englishmen who goes native with the first Japanese shogun is the first among equals of the James Michener era of middlebrow informational epics.
ANDREW WILSONPortland, Oregon The very intelligence and subtlety of your proposals suggests that the challenge facing liberals is not so much a perception that they are elitist, but rather that liberals tend to embrace complexity and avoid simplicity.
The difference is that Clinton hid her attack in the Trojan horse of a "major" foreign policy speech, while Trump, as usual, is ditching the subtlety and billing his speech as simply a "major" attack on the Clintons.
"Daddy," then, may be an acknowledgment of the interpretative peril in which Harris finds himself as an artist given equally to melodrama and serious rumination—a bid to claim his right to subtlety and ornament, spectacle and pain.
But the spectacle was somehow sadder for its subtlety, which underscored the bind that even the most cautious and conscientious administration official is in, the impossibility of finding some honorable balance of principle and obeisance, prudence and deference.
For the next president, subtlety was a problem: "The nuances and complexities of the middle ground Clinton seeks are sometimes difficult to convey in a highly charged campaign," wrote Marshall Ingwerson in The Christian Science Monitor in 1992.
It's a good thing that Mr. Antoncic and Ms. Loemij are beautiful movers with the subtlety of veteran dancers (she's been with Rosas since 1991), because the relentlessness of the choreography, running and rolling in circles, is wearying.
The movie starts out feeling almost like a teen comedy; then, without any attempts at subtlety, it ramps up to a horror conflagration, combining tropes from gothic horror, tales of obsession, and something approaching an afterschool special about bullying.
It can be considered an extension of some of Walker's other monumental works, like "A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby," the massive, sugar-coated sphinx-like figure that she installed inside a former Domino Sugar factory in Brooklyn.
This is the black metal band I want to hear, these are politics I am looking for but never finding in music, and it is the subtlety and also drama that I think black metal is meant to have.
That sort of subtlety tends to go over the head of a high viewer, and will get replaced instead by a sort of numb terror that you will be either murdered or forced to partake in a beauty pageant.
Yet this ignores the subtlety of such influence operations, which, as in any con, rely on the willingness of their targets to be duped or cajoled or simply nudged further in the same dangerous direction they were already heading.
But the popular notion of Macron as a "Trump whisperer" doesn't do justice to the subtlety of his mission, the delicacy of dealing with a counterpart as volatile as Trump and the political risks that he is courting himself.
In spite of appearances, however, the recipes make clear that experimenting in the kitchen, for both of these cooks, is about the boldness of subtlety, the paradoxes of sameness embedded in difference, and the un-ironic pleasures of hospitality.
" In a new interview in the book, de Havilland cites the lessons she's learned from Parisian women: "The importance of tact, restraint, subtlety, and the avoidance of banality," and the tenets of what she calls the "Paris principle": "1.
Some of the funniest television I've seen this year has required his virtuosic subtlety — the way his body jiggles in anger as he taps up a text storm, or the way he mumbles and pulls on Alfred's country twang.
Overseen by Jay Sanders, the museum's curator of performance, and Lawrence Kumpf, artistic director of Blank Forms, it honored six decades of piano improvisation during which Mr. Taylor took jazz to new heights of subtlety, complexity and, ultimately, accessibility.
The New York City-based nonprofit is best known for presenting large-scale — and sometimes headline-grabbing — public exhibitions, including Vik Muniz's 2001 "Clouds," in Manhattan, and Kara Walker's 2014 "A Subtlety" in a former sugar factory in Queens.
Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State With Trump's earlier nomination of Pruitt, a fossil fuel-friendly politician, Trump decided to quit with the subtlety and nominated a literal oil magnate, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, to serve as Secretary of State.
Jacqueline Woodson's books are such a gift to parents and children for their poignant subtlety and lyricism, and their willingness to let a reader dwell in the pangs of realization that we sometimes try to protect our children from.
These are all familiar themes; what made season one work so well was the subtlety and deftness with which showrunner Dave Kajganich blended them all together as thematic texture that never overshadowed the drama of the plot at hand.
The intellectuals Wolfe admires made a case for the appreciation of subtlety, ambiguity, intellectual curiosity and tolerance of divergent views — all qualities that are abundant in the world of thought but have never been cherished by the broader electorate.
Where Mr. Obama was always measured in his descriptions of the recovery for fear of being accused of exaggerating his case or ignoring the very real pain many still felt, Mr. Trump does not bother with caveats or subtlety.
Campaigning in Georgia for Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, Mr. Trump delivered a message with all the subtlety of an arsonist's house fire, accusing Democrats of seeking to inflict "more crime and more caravans" upon the country.
The film piles on the clichés and avoids anything resembling subtlety as it tells a heavily fictionalized version of Mr. Edwards's tale, which culminated with his improbable appearance as a ski jumper at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.
While there's something to be said for the natural subtlety of barely-there babylights and multi-dimensional lowlights, the color trend that's really taking off this season is a high-drama, bright-and-glossy, surprisingly flattering shade of burnished copper.
Raíz toy with subtlety-within-aggression in a manner that only veterans can, and these tracks are surely causing a ruckus on their current European tour, which saw them perform at Berlin's storied Tresor this week and in Paris this weekend.
According to the paper, the incident appears to be yet another in a long line of occasions where Russian critics of Vladimir Putin's government abroad have turned up dead, and the apparent lack of subtlety may be part of the point.
Apologies if I'm missing some amazing subtlety in interpretation of the business model but I only have 450 words for this piece of copy so time is of the essence, a bit like when you are trying to deliver pizza.
It was Corrine's second hungry-water-beast-themed date, which is a fascinating choice on the part of the producers, who have never really been ones for subtlety but have generally stopped short of comparing women to prehistoric carnivorous monsters.
No time for mourning, though; without any sort of subtlety or deeper characterization, she's back running an operation in what is now a familiar setting for television: a room with lots of screens and anxious people with headsets facing those screens.
But with these looks, somewhere between the two extremes, we got a taste of powerful grace that demands attention without subtlety, swapped puffy shoulders for shapely, sharp, padded ones, and flowery embroidery for sleek, reflective sequins that almost look welded together.
Few watches come quite this close to achieving a perfect balance in terms of size, subtlety, interesting visual features and general wearability – you can dress the Vektor up just as easily as wear it out as your daily wrist companion.
Step one is to choose your makeup bag from three options — this year, there's a pink tasseled number, a chic white marble printed design, and a sequined one with a flamingo for those days when subtlety is simply not an option.
BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Possible successors to Prime Minister Theresa May are using the Conservative Party's annual conference this week to set out, with varying degrees of subtlety, their visions for Britain, turning the event into a parade of potential future leaders.
As played, though, there's scant subtlety in the juxtaposition of those scenes, or in the movie's most relevant plot: King leading a revolt by female players against the stodgy tennis establishment, personified by Jack Kramer (Bill Pullman), over unequal pay.
In a revealing moment, Franklin and Andre argue, poolside, about an artist who goes unnamed but is clearly Kara Walker , and her work, "A Subtlety," a monumental sculpture of a sphinxlike woman with exaggeratedly Negroid features, coated in white sugar.
Wade, a Chicago native in his 13th season, responded to Thomas's drives with his usual subtlety, setting up forward Taj Gibson to score twice in a row and wrapping Thomas up when he was again on his way to the hoop.
With creepy, meticulously designed illustrations that threw subtlety out the window, and text that made outrageous claims far beyond the movie's actual contents, these ads could make a minor piece of schlock look like the most elaborate exercise in terror.
The twisting and cracking of the British class system is always fascinating to observe, and "The Little Stranger" traces the details of its chosen moment of social change with precision and subtlety, and with its own layers of somewhat dubious nostalgia.
The initials have migrated to the restaurant's website as well, where its name is now given as Henry at Life Hotel by JJ. These are not subtle gestures, but subtlety has rarely saved a restaurant on the brink of failure.
Quieter moments, especially in the sensitively drawn connection between Adam and his rap mentor (a terrific Jackie Long), allow the movie to explore the complexity of cultural interaction with more subtlety than we've come to expect from our modern comedies.
Rendered with an exquisite tenderness, psychological subtlety and technical finesse, these subjects include Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy; Ossie Clark and his wife, Celia Birtwell; and Henry Geldzahler, founding curator of the Met's department of 20th-century arts, and Christopher Scott.
"In many cases, we lack the nuance, subtlety and grace of Egyptians," said Diana Esposito, a Harvard graduate from New York who came to Egypt in 2008 on a Fulbright scholarship and stayed to pursue a career in belly dance.
Fox departs from that idealistic prescription, a little, with "The Resident," a more cynical new series -- suffering from a serious subtlety deficiency -- that the network will launch Sunday on the back of the NFL playoffs, before joining its Monday lineup.
These intrusions, current and former administration officials agree, will embolden other American adversaries, which have been given a vivid demonstration that, when used with some subtlety, their growing digital arsenals can be particularly damaging in the frenzy of a democratic election.
Mr. Attenborough has never been one to hector; he has said that he hopes his many fine nature programs have helped people appreciate the variety and fragility of the natural world, but he has eschewed the soapbox in favor of subtlety.
The president was famously described by the author Fran Lebowitz as "a poor person's idea of a rich person," which is to say that Trump's idea of taste and status has little of the subtlety we expect of truly wealthy people.
What's more, he commands great delicacy and subtlety of expression, as appropriate, and that, too, was evident here, especially in his stealthy interplay with the fine timpanist, Markus Rhoten, in the second movement, against a backdrop of hushed and mysterious strings.
Bonus points for the total lack of subtlety in informing the reading public that GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS HAS THE CANELO-GGG FIGHT, DID YOU KNOW THAT, DID YOU KNOW WHEN IT WAS, DID YOU KNOW HOW GOOD IT WILL BE?
The classic low wedge, with its subtlety, comfort, and ever-so-slight elevation, is the rare example that satisfies this Goldilocks-level list of requirements, so we're pleased to see some of our favorite designers and retail destinations going back to this style.
I took a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) in college, which, while it did lift me out of my deep depression — or at least I credit it for that — also initially scorched my brain with all the subtlety of a carpet bomb.
Previous House of Murphy projects like Feud: Bette and Joan and American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace lacked some subtlety in their attempts to find the politics (of misogyny and anti-gay sentiment, respectively) in the spectacle of tabloid stories.
But because subtlety is an art lost on Bieber—who recently and desperately asked us all to loop "Yummy" while we sleep, so as to get him back on the top of the charts—he must keep saying the quiet thing out loud.
Tea leaves are now shredded into tiny bits, which generate lots of flavour but less of the subtlety for which Indian tea has been prized abroad (Indians boil rather than brew their tea and so tend to make do with lower-quality leaves).
Whether it's a fashionable play on the polarizing pickle trend, an understated ode to the plastic straw ban, or even a strong interpretation on Antoni Porowski's avocado-love, the five costumes ahead capture the major food moments of 2018 with witty subtlety.
One subtlety that will be hard to perceive here, but is very much present: the Lumix S63 manages to capture the color temperature difference between the bluer black of the background screen and the redder black of OnePlus CEO Pete Lau's hair.
The First Purge, directed by Gerard McMurray from a DeMonaco script, takes a different tack — it throws subtlety out the window, filling the film with images inspired by specific events like the 2017 white nationalist gathering in Charlottesville and the Charleston church massacre.
Unfortunately, America doesn't have a substantial Social Democracy Party, so anything to the left of the mainstream Democratic Party is simply called socialism because Americans don't have the vocabulary to talk about these things with more subtlety than a binary left-versus-right.
Last week's episode, "Infiltration," felt a whole lot like "Fly" — the season one episode that had a contestant go off her bipolar medication and leap off a roof, indulging the most in melodrama and the least in subtlety of any other chapter.
Smart commentators like the New Yorker's Jelani Cobb and the Atlantic's Adam Serwer have unpacked these metaphors at length, in the process showing how much thematic subtlety Coogler managed to pack into a film that has to adhere to Marvel's house style.
But this avenue is less likely, because it requires a fair bit of subtlety: Regulations would be slow to change, their change would be less immediately apparent, and it would be more difficult for the administration to claim credit for the changes.
This is not a likely association with the ballet-trained Ms. Pite, who danced with Mr. Forsythe's Frankfurt Ballet for five years early in her career, and whose earlier repertoire has included works of far more intimacy, dramatic subtlety and choreographic invention.
If that seems like unusual subtlety for the Trump administration, you can thank Princeton professor Robert George, who, according to an ABC News source, wrote the concept note for the new commission and is slated to be among its 20133 inaugural members.
To his mind, the operation — elaborately planned with two American presidents — showed how Israel should defend itself in the future: not with open demonstrations of military might that invited retaliation, escalation and condemnation; not with assassinations and occupations; but with subtlety and indirection.
The Catholic League has denounced the show and Dan Savage, the sex advice columnist who drew on his childhood for the idea (he's an executive producer), but really anyone who values subtlety and sophistication in their humor is eligible to be dismayed.
From now through September, in a former slaughterhouse on the Greek Island of Hydra, the severed left front paw of Kara Walker's A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby rests on a bed of that white powder, looking rather like a trophy dessert.
If Demian Maia is art house display of nuance and subtlety, Belfort is a multiplex blockbuster of fireball violence, and one of the virtues of knockouts—for the spectator, anyway—is that you don't have to think too hard to understand their power.
I believe that the narrative is extremely important in porn, as it helps to develop the characters, establish their dynamic, and lay the foundation for the encounter in a way that can only be done through nuance and subtlety before the sex itself.
The novel to this point is a marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that's utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original's back story falls neatly into place.
Another small clue: The two close companions to K and Wallace are named Joi and Luv (Blade Runner 2049 could not be particularly accused of subtlety), which are also two of the "fruits of the Spirit," found in the Biblical book of Galatians.
The passage is over in a second, but Ms. Rachvelishvili (pronounced rahtch-vel-ish-VEEL-ee), 34, has rocketed to stardom over the past few years with performances built from brief moments just like it: combinations of arresting vocalism and thoughtful subtlety.
THE PROVOCATEURThe artist Kara Walker creates subversive works on power, oppression, racial identity, sexuality and violence through charcoal drawing, collage, painting and a renowned, sphinxlike sugar sculpture, "A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby," at the crumbling Domino sugar factory in 2014.
That's what happens when a work is as perfectly executed and as playfully and purposefully intelligent as this one, directed with luminous subtlety by James Macdonald and featuring a cast of four fine actresses portraying women in the evening of their lives.
I like minimalism and subtlety, and I think that a viewer can pick up more on those subtleties and connect more with a story when the character with which they are (hopefully) identifying is not so overly specific that it isn't universally relatable.
Even as the series' narrative flaws started to reveal themselves toward the end, it remained a stylish and sophisticated piece of visual storytelling — a marvelous mood study, directed with the kind of patience and subtlety that used to be limited almost entirely to feature filmmaking.
With the inmates in possession of a gun, there are multiple references to mass shootings — the first episode alone mentions Columbine, Sandy Hook, San Bernadino, Virginia Tech, Charleston, Aurora — and there's no subtlety to the fact that the writers don't run out of examples.
From the ill-advised Nightmare Before Christmas covers album Nightmare Revisited, it is rivaled only in its grimacing lack of subtlety by Korn's version of "Kidnap the Sandy Claws," which is a thing that even typing about causes the hackles on my neck to rise.
Sometimes, Game Of Thrones can be totally in-your-face with its gore and sex and general yelling, but other times, it's the master of subtlety, dropping clues so small you might have missed them had a hero like me not pointed them out.
British showmanship has a special kind of easy-going quality to it—the kind of approach that wouldn't work in the US, where loud, flashy brashness tends to be favored over subtlety, especially when it comes to magic shows (Penn & Teller being a good example).
Hearing Nate and his wife Elena commenting on how bad he was at playing, how bad I was at playing, the difference between Crash's arcade-style high-score-chasing and Uncharted 4's slower, languorous story with all its feelings and emotions and subtlety.
The idea is to control a living insect's flight remotely, but without clumsily activating its wings artificially (the subtlety of those movements are beyond us) or merely giving the insect the idea of going in a certain direction (it can learn to ignore these notions).
College bands kept playing "Dixie" for more than a century after Fort Sumter; the University of Mississippi (where the football team is named, with no attempt at subtlety, the Rebels) clung to the battle flag and "Dixie" until well into the twenty-first century.
Twenty One Pilots is not known for subtlety, so the signals to the crowd Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, where the duo played the first of two sold-out shows to close the United States leg of its Emotional Roadshow tour, were bold.
"No matter the subtlety of any shift in guidance (by Draghi), the reaction in a yield-sensitive market is generally binary and we may well have to add currency appreciation to the risks facing ECB policy," said Bank of New York Mellon strategist Neil Mellor.
It's a thoughtful statement on the current, erm, predicament that America, and therefore the rest of the world, currently finds itself in, and, never really one for subtlety, the sparse piano line with which Misty accompanies himself kind of piles on the melancholy even further.
BRUNI: "Lady Bird" and "Molly's Game" are classic examples of character-driven stories, dependent on nuance and pace and subtlety, and we hear constantly about how hard it can be to get such movies made in the blockbuster, explosion-in-the-final-reel era.
But subtlety was in short supply, really, a few guests aside: Danai Gurira, in top hat, cane (there were a lot of canes) and plunging jumpsuit by Gabriela Hearst; Zoë Kravitz in a black Saint Laurent with a completely cutout heart at the bodice.
The subtlety of details like deep inverted pleats in the trousers and oversize patches on the coat pockets called to mind the exaggerated gentlemanly elegance of the Congolese dandies called Les Sapeurs, a contraction from the French for Society of Tastemakers and Elegant People.
And it led to an atypical (for a show that fetishizes a certain kind of visual subtlety) but funny image of Helen and Vic in the back seat of a cab, separated by a very large photograph of a vagina, like a third passenger.
Although his films take place in a thoroughly modern, urban environment, there is something satisfyingly old-fashioned about his approach to contemporary life, an understated belief in the ethical value of addressing the complexities of experience through the clarity and subtlety of narrative art.
Copies, Fakes, and Reproductions: Printmaking in the Renaissance at the Blanton Museum of Art tackles these questions with subtlety and nuance, drawing (as it were) from Dürer and Raimondi's work, of course, but also from Raphael, Michelangelo, Giorgio Ghisi, Hendrick Goltzius, and many others.
Kara Walker is showing a two-part video, "An Audience / Rhapsody" (2014), which was recorded on the final day that her massive public artwork "A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby" was on view and the next day, as the piece was taken apart.
Using the visual attraction of sculptural objects to entice the eye, the body's so-called perceptive sovereign, to his sounds, Julius's minimalist acoustic works sensitize the ear and mind to the great variety (and often subtlety) of sounds that exist in the world around us.
As uncomfortably close as these performances may seem, a mental comparison with the lunatic antics of the Viennese Actionists, the all-male band of provocateurs who staged pageants of blood, gore, sex, and death at this same time, attests to their warmth, humor, and relative subtlety.
The idea of showcasing German civilians' suffering during the post-war years, and the resentment of an entire generation whose lives were stolen by conflict, is a refreshing and important one, but it requires depth and subtlety, and The Aftermath doesn't fully commit to the task.

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