Consider Facebook's countless subtle assaults on personal privacy, in the name of connecting people, which happens to be how Facebook becomes ever stronger and more inescapable, while maintaining much stronger controls for its own employees and data.
When Mr. Miller and Mr. Burnett make music for Rayna and Juliette, they rely on musical density and heavy Auto-Tuning, which falls somewhere between a true-to-life representation of pop-country and a critique of Nashville's center, a not-so-subtle assault on the town's mystique.
— Roger Federer has not won a Grand Slam title in more than two years, but he continued his somewhat more subtle recent assault on the record books Sunday.
It persists where there is a history of apathy or even subtle tolerance toward sexual assault.
Normally, under such an onslaught, Murray finds a way to prick the assault with subtle and soft retaliation.
It revealed a high incidence of sexual harassment, with abuses ranging from subtle gender exclusion to sexual assault.
Accessibility was a similarly divisive issue, with the album being characterized as "perhaps their most rewarding yet, but simultaneously their hardest to immediately access given its prioritising of subtle nuances over senses-numbing assaults" and "a slow-burning success".
Mr. Olson's subtle changes of expression at this assault are heartbreaking.
Before emotions lead them to start verbally assaulting each other, they need subtle reminders: "Max likes and trusts this person… maybe I should give them the benefit of the doubt".
In campaigns gone by, Ms. Palin's assaults were gentler — sometimes so quick, so subtle, so cheerful as to cut people to the core before they noticed.
Whether the subtle aggressions of institutionalized racism or the trauma of sexual assault, we have witnessed how violence disrupts lives -- how it infects our heads and hearts.
