Afterwards, I took a flight back to a country whose national security architecture had again expanded subtly in the name of "my" safety.
"To Be Loved" reaffirms his suave command as a vocalist and song stylist, while subtly expanding the frame.
The opening cut "Self Determination," premiering today on THUMP, conjures the ambience of a Middle Eastern market and effortlessly melds the sounds to subtly expanding and contracting waves of percussion.
Much of their charm is located in the sculpted drama of Christy Hanewinkel's drumming; each cymbal hit seems to subtly expand the edges of their songs.
For daytime, this meant micro-plisse pleating, the tiny zigzag folds of which concertina to subtly expand and contract so that the body creates the shape of the garment rather than being imprisoned by set-in-stone measurements.
His achievement centers on always luminous, often panoramic but exquisitely rendered allegorical paintings that crib from, expand upon and subtly parody sources and styles ranging from the Hudson River School to Norman Rockwell, with American Social Realism and Surrealism in between, as well as commercial art, collage and illustration.
The wisdom of the book, and the artistry, is in how Brown subtly expands his lens from Margaret's misbehavior — sometimes campy, sometimes desperate — to those who gawked at her, who huddled around her, pens poised over their diaries, hoping for the show she never denied them.
Working with the producer Hal Wilner, an expert at innovative art-rock coloration, and his longtime guitar partner, Mike Rathke, Mr. Reed has subtly expanded the textures of his newest songs to bring in shades of bossa nova (on "Ecstasy"); on "Rock Minuet," he sandwiches his hushed vocal delivery between extremes of harsh guitar and Laurie Anderson's ethereal electric violin.
Visitor or villager, when you're by the common, your sense of space and being may well subtly expand -- an effect attributable to the generous vision of the town's founders, a group of families from Sturbridge, Mass., who reserved one of the 144 lots in the forested tract they had purchased for communal use.
A former president of Universal International, Kosse was brought in about 18 months ago after Ross' departure to help subtly expand the kinds of movies Film4 makes.
TTMOE has subtly expanded his musical palette but the emphasis is still on his guitar and his songs, most of the time, with the occasional piano and other instrumentation thrown in.
