Maybe they were just being subtle.

The subtle distinctions speak volumes.

The most common verbal indicators are subtle.

There's no need of making such fine distinctions.

Can we be more gentle with light?

Subtle differences in tone discriminate the original from the copy.

Naturally, the questions she has raised will receive careful consider ation, and you can rest assured that I shall be sending you in writing all the explanations you have asked for.

Subtle maneuvering of the hands is required to perform delicate tasks like this.

You don't notice the subtle changes in the amplitude that we impress onto this light bulb.

You're just in there, watching the incredible, subtle changes of color in the sky.

The Advanced Tab provides fine grained control over the more subtle behaviors of kstars .

And yet these subtle switches at the top of the table are not the real story.

The receiver will convert these little, subtle changes in the amplitude that we create there into an electrical signal.

It can ignore that constant light, because all the receiver's interested in are subtle changes.

However, such differences are usually subtle (particularly between allozymes which are often neutral variants).

Recent subtle changes in Sino Indian relations could prove to be enormously consequential for the world in the coming decades.

BEIJING China s reform program has reached an impasse, with fundamental conflicts of interest and subtle resistance mechanisms blocking progress.

The risks consist not so much in outright fraud big lies that would be jailable offenses as in more subtle forms of deception.

Research increasingly suggests that airborne contaminants can have subtle but significant effects on early neurological development and behavior, she says.

Research increasingly suggests that airborne contaminants can have subtle but significant effects on early neurological development and behavior.

Ferdinand Foch, a French army general credited with having one of the most original and subtle minds in the French army, said, Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

Connecting each character peripherally through the Los Angeles River, The Blue Hour explores the delicate ties and common humanity among strangers in a seemingly disconnected landscape.

While earlier versions of the page prominently featured nationalistic and religious elements, more recent designs are sleek and more subtle about the censorship they represent.

Others are less concerned with subtle flirting techniques and wear simple felt hats that say Too drunk to get dressed' and, without prompting, show people their naked behind.

Moreover, subtle differences between the US and UK in national income accounting should be taken into account in comparing productivity trends.

Now, the elements of the scene also communicate this to us, but you can read it straight off their faces, and if you compare their faces to normal faces, it would be a very subtle cue.

In the future, I still need to practice self censorship to make my cartoons subtle so that my work can continue to be circulated on China s social media , Biantailajiao says in frustration.

Metzger believed that the songs and arrangements are too similar to the studio versions on All the Roadrunning , and that the differences between the live versions and the studio versions are mostly subtle.

TD So, since we've been here this week, we've taken millions of breaths, collectively, and perhaps we haven't witnessed any course changes happening in our lives, but we often miss the very subtle changes.

You go to the stereo store, you see two sets of speakers these big, boxy, monoliths, and these little, sleek speakers, and you play them, and you go, you know, I do hear a difference the big ones sound a little better.

So really my concluding point is you may not agree with religion, but at the end of the day, religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone they're for all of us.

These lessons apply equally to advanced economies, which also suffer from rising inequality and subtle forms of corruption. But, for those wealthy economies, restoring decent growth is now the major priority.

Some women have those heart attacks, but a whole bunch of women have this kind of heart attack, where it erodes, doesn't completely fill with clot, symptoms are subtle, EKG findings are different female pattern.

Ultimately, the goal, once we understand how these subtle effects can change our decision making, we want to be able to provide people tools so that they can consciously make themselves better savers and more conscious investors in their own future.

PET scans are slightly less accurate, while routine MRI brain scans can reveal with perhaps only 70 accuracy subtle abnormalities in people with mild cognitive impairment.

My linguistics and economics colleagues at Yale and I are just starting to do this work and really explore and understand the ways that these subtle nudges cause us to think more or less about the future every single time we speak.

Yes, there are subtle differences here, but the human race car driver is able to go out and drive an amazingly fast line, without the benefit of an algorithm that compares the trade off between going as fast as possible in this corner, and shaving a little bit of time off of the straight over here.

The ambassador is worried by broadcasts such as Border, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Intelligece and H2O, which contain unsubtle references to Maher Arar, to the No Fly List or again to kidnappings for rigorous interrogation by the CIA.

Several governments including that of the United Kingdom have developed so called nudge units, which seek to encourage people to make better choices for themselves and society by providing subtle hints, cues, and other suggestions.

If we have a lot of shared genotypes, and a lot of shared outcomes, and a lot of shared lifestyle choices, and a lot of shared environmental information, we can start to tease out the correlations between subtle variations in people, the choices they make and the health that they create as a result of those choices, and there's open source infrastructure to do all of this.

We all have good reason to be grateful that US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is an expert on the Great Depression and the authorities flawed policy responses then, rather than in the finer points of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium theory.

Perhaps the greatest obstacle will be the huge legacy of public debt, which now averages about 110 of GDP in the advanced economies the highest level since World War 160 II. This leaves governments highly exposed to subtle shifts in confidence.

Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the blindingly obvious nutrition claims to the very subtle tricks of the pharmaceutical industry.

So, some societies, for subtle environmental reasons, are more fragile than others. And then finally, another generalization. I'm now teaching a course at UCLA, to UCLA undergraduates, on these collapses of societies. What really bugs my UCLA undergraduate students is, how on earth did these societies not see what they were doing?

On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lie can be subtle and counter intuitive. Pamela Meyer, author of em Liespotting, em shows the manners and hotspots used by those trained to recognize deception and she argues honesty is a value worth preserving.