Both the town's permanent residents and the visiting vampires lead lives of quiet desperation and Alfredson and Lindqvist maintain a subtle balance between the two narrative strands.
The wavy Wachovia logo maintains a subtle presence on every floor because of how it contrasts with the unbending angles of the interior design.
Thai cooking depends above all on maintaining a subtle interplay between hot, sour, sweet and salty flavors, and this balancing act is almost always played out in the salads, or yums.
Keeping its protagonists off-screen and maintaining a subtle tension between sound and image, "The Anabasis" combines the voice-overs of May Shigenobu and Mr. Adachi with Super-8 footage filmed in present-day Tokyo and Beirut — an application of Mr. Adachi's theory of landscape on none other than the theorist himself.
But despite these factors, it somehow maintains a subtle, balanced lightness that allows you to slurp up an entire bowl.
Another plausible hypothesis is that the RIP3 kinase activity inhibits p65/RelA cleavage and maintains a subtle equilibrium.
This family of proteins maintains a subtle survival/cell-death balance by regulating mitochondrial integrity, caspase activation, and consequent cell demolition.
While the U.S. maintains a more subtle military presence in the latter three countries, our support for authoritarian regimes there has supported militants by undermining U.S. claims to support democracy abroad.
Ms. Sung's playing maintains a temperate and subtle energy — nothing rhythmically loose or dynamically abrupt — whereas Mr. Green has a harder keyboard touch and teases your ear, drawling and dragging on his continuous single-note improvisations.
Cutting between parched mosaics of Mexican soil and California's artificially maintained greenery makes a subtle point; if water is, as so much dystopian sci-fi predicts, one faultline along which society may rupture, then the cracks are already in evidence.
