Bally is an internationally recognized name for its fine craftsmanship, but with this subtle focus on the Swiss identity, the design duo gave depth — literally and figuratively — to the leather surfaces.
Josefowicz's playing was immensely committed and astoundingly vivid, and it emerged in even sharper, more subtle focus in the Radio 3 recording, which also resolved many of the textures that had seemed rather blurred in the hall.
But that was a subtle, soft-focus opening shot compared to what was to come.
Still, the underlying intrigue is of a subtle kind, focusing on the way each of us — including Weston — frames and distorts our narratives.
The director was trained as a physicist and philosopher before turning to film-making, and his picture is a subtle, sharply focused exposé of ambition, petty corruption and bitter academic politics at a summer school in linguistics in a provincial town.
Surprise guest Paloma Faith, a gifted reinventer of classic torch-songs, was the most theatrically charismatic presence of the night, the subtle, focused and flawlessly musical Gretchen Parlato the most original, and Noel McKoy, China Moses and expat American Charlie Wood the most convincing soul singers.
Epithelial markers such as AE1/AE3 and cytokeratin 7 may identify subtle foci of stromal invasion and micrometastasis in lymph nodes.
At Community Synagogue, the pending arrival of Rabbi Jacobson has prompted a subtle shift of focus in that one preoccupation of all religious traditions, worrying.
But this year a subtle change in focus is detectable in the campaigners' ambitions: "We have seen just how unsustainable our political and economic systems are, and at the end of August we'll be pitching our tents in London again, training up a new generation of activists.
