Once the new proficiency standard was adopted, classroom instruction had to change too, says Baumann: "The goal becomes teaching toward functional ability, instead of teaching toward knowledge about grammar and vocabulary". Put simply, students no longer learn about the language like a linguist might — to understand its structure and subtleties, or to compare it to other languages.
I tend to prefer restraint, balance, structure and subtlety in pinot noirs, and the panel largely agreed with me.
Through this medium we have learned the mechanics of human loco motion, the complexities of our skeletal structure, the physiognomic subtleties of our personae and the depth of our depravity.
By contrast, the music of India and the Perso-Arab world employs a melody instrument or voice performing in a given metre offset by a drum playing cross rhythms or (in the Arab world) a quite different metre; with no harmony (except a drone) to impede its flow, the rhythm can reach a structure of great subtlety and complexity.
In his dances — poetic structures of great subtlety and force — there is the sense of a singular artist digging for a forgotten treasure.
"Working with David Deveau has helped tame my 'wildness.' He made me realize the importance of subtleties, rhythmic structure, and disciplined practice.
He considers his spare style to be influenced by "the strength and directness of the sound of Latin, its economy of structure, and by the subtleties of thought required for the writing of Greek, where the language tends to hint rather than to be explicit".
Still, I walked out of the show not discussing race but marveling over the subtleties and structure of the play itself.
The novelist Joseph Heller believed that Hades could be found underneath the building -- a structure with all the subtlety and grace of a grimy shoebox -- and he set "Closing Time," the sequel to "Catch-22," there.
In their hits, they found a way to express, through the subtleties of song structure, a strange vision of love.
There are a lot more subtleties about this structure that give us hints about how it works that I won't go into now.
