Instead, curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari have put together what Bonami described in his opening remarks as a "very American, subtle atmosphere".
Psychologist Fredric Wertham, who in Seduction of the Innocent asserted that "Batman stories are psychologically homosexual", claimed to find a "subtle atmosphere of homoeroticism which pervades the adventures of the mature 'Batman' and his young friend 'Robin'".
No big special effects team could have created a more subtle, effective atmosphere in the tone of the day.
"A Brush With Nature: The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches," on view through Nov. 12, features nearly 70 pieces by 18th- and 19th-century artists who worked quickly in the open air to hone their skills in capturing the subtle effects of atmosphere and light.
It is this that gives the book its subtle, unpredictable, surprising atmosphere.
In his haunting scene The Snake Charmer, this customs official whose "naive" style both fascinated and entertained the Paris avant-garde displays a subtle sense of atmosphere as he sets a dark figure in a dark jungle.
His style, which has come to exemplify what is called American Luminism, ultimately subjugated brushwork and topographic precision for subtle modulations of atmosphere beneath various layers of translucent varnish.
Everything was still in its place — his colonial armchair with the extended leg rest, his big bed and bigger chest of drawers, its brass handles too heavy for her to pull, and the mirror too high for her to look into — but there was a subtle change of atmosphere.
I left that one too before it concluded, with the dispiriting sense that the thrills of the production had less to do with the rather uninspired adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic than with the inventions of Mr. Boyle's direction, and the subtle stoking of atmosphere in the Olivier Theater.
Perhaps the most important thing about the staging, first seen at the Met in 1991, is that instead of evoking oohs and aaahs, it creates a subtle but magical atmosphere in which the cast and audience can explore this multilayered allegory of Masonic initiation rites and coming of age.
It is interesting, suffused with an atmosphere subtle yet clear.
