Sentence examples for a subtle manipulation from inspiring English sources

Our technique thus results in a subtle manipulation of the spatial truncation error in favor of the assumed symmetry but only to the extent that it is naturally present in the physical situation.

The yogic system is a subtle manipulation of your system.

It is a subtle manipulation, as a person just has to believe what a part of their mind tells them (and since it is what they want to hear, its very easy), then the ego asserts itself and belief occurs.

This subtle manipulation had a profound effect on the time course and severity of the hAPP-induced abnormal activities.

Jenny Gilbert, Independent on Sunday, 2007 "No other choreographer combines such a thrilling command of rhythm with such subtle manipulation of spatial dynamics.

Lomax wrote that the exactly milled and tuned strings of the guitar offered "a range of notes that, with the subtle manipulation of finger and slide, can be made to emit the nuance of speech and really talk the blues in every region, as well as define other wordless feelings with the utmost delicacy".

Messing and Durgin (2005) showed that a subtle direct manipulation of the explicit visual horizon in a virtual environment (i.e., lowering it by 1.5°) also shifted perceived distance as predicted both for explicit estimation and for a blindfolded walking task.

Messing and Durgin (2005), using a within-subjects design, found reliable effects of a subtle horizon manipulation on verbal estimates of distance when they considered second-order representations of verbal distance estimates: They computed the exponents of the power function for each observer under each viewing condition (see Durgin & Li, 2010, for discussion).

It is not clear how large of an effect one would expect to see for a subtle context manipulation: recent work from our lab has shown that hippocampal pattern similarity is greatest for trials that share both object and context information (Hsieh et al., 2014; Libby et al., 2014), compared to context information alone.

This is code for winning hearts and minds, for sheer and subtle manipulation, and it suggests that trust is a mere strategy for doing so.

These days, we prefer the subtle manipulation of the algorithm to the overt glamour of the "style guide".