Even if G.M. couldn't exactly carry over the styling of the show car, they should have made the actual design more exotic, because the people that buy them are not interested in making a subtle statement.
However, West, expecting a spade void in the dummy, makes a subtle opening lead: the spade deuce.
It is the third indication from the Lib Dems that they intend to concentrate their efforts on infrastructure projects which do not bust the headline deficit reduction plan but at the same time makes a subtle shift in emphasis towards greater public spending.
Similarly, United We Dream, a group advocating for dreamers that has organized months of in-person protests in states and on the Hill — including sit-ins at senators' offices — made a subtle shift in January, focusing on reluctant Republicans and thanking Democrats as they came on board.
But in the rarefied world of cocktail-centric bars — the kind of places where, as at the Summit Bar, the drinks are bedizened with ingredients like saffron orange tincture and cardamom-infused agave syrup, and the ice cubes are the size of fuzzy dice — the bartender's role has, in recent years, made a subtle shift.
In reality, you made a subtle switch to the hand beneath your chin.
Dreadful in his first two July starts, Hernandez has solidified his spot in the rotation after making a subtle adjustment.
Monet was no one's idea of a social or an environmental critic, but in his "Villas in Bordighera" of 1884 he made a subtle and maybe unconscious comment on social change -- the arrival, in other words, of villas that stood high above the simple two-story houses of an earlier day.
So we're making a subtle change in our portfolio in January: We're moving away from individual stocks to small-cap mutual funds, on the theory that they will be easier to liquidate when the time comes.
A small group of individuals, who have tremendous power over what is broadcast, made a calculated decision to eliminate a reference to God in a familiar pledge to make a subtle statement.
