Vernet's shipwrecks, sunsets, and conflagrations reveal an unusually subtle observation of light and atmosphere.
A distanced and subtle observation of young runners in the Ethiopian highland town of Bekoji, famed for producing some of the world's greatest distance athletes, including Tirunesh Dibaba, Kenenisa Bekele and Derartu Tulu.
The story is set in the future, in 1980, on an imaginary antipodean island called Britannula, and therefore lacks the subtle observation of a recognisable social world for which Trollope's fiction is cherished.
No reader can help but be amused and disturbed by this passage, which is representative of O'Connor's subtle observation of a world that was not her own, but which informed every inch of the one she inhabited.
The Tarnished Angels is a polished psychological melodrama, meticulous in its subtle observation, but only the planes involved in the dangerous flying scenes are strictly of the 1930s.
In a stream architecture, relevance and authority are earned by the subtle observation of cloud dynamics.
Ashbery once wrote of Mitchell's work that "one's feelings about nature are at different removes from it," and Albers, the author of a biography of the photographer Tina Modotti, has found her key in this subtle observation.
Stephen Beresford's screenplay combines broad comedy with subtle observation.
The series was a deft combination of comic exaggeration (goofy Midwestern parents, dopily self-absorbed teen-agers) and subtle observation of how prejudice works and what it's like to be an outsider — and an outsider who's a Muslim, no less.
Other growth opportunities are but one subtle observation away–no dramatic innovation required.
