But after a while in the rain forest, you begin to appreciate its subtler attractions -- the camouflages of butterflies and lizards, the tangles of monkey-ladder vines and the intricate structure of spider webs, the arboreal versions of flying buttresses that develop at the base of a tree to support its great height, the clever strategems that plants and animals use to exploit one another.
Geckos are renowned for their ability to scurry up walls, clinging to surfaces with the help of tiny rows of hair on their toes that generate a subtle electrical attraction known as the van der Waals force.
During this time, the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy had yet to be banned and hiding my subtle secondary attraction to the same gender was paramount to my existence.
Its attraction is subtle and simmering: it's underground, cutting edge, creative and so, so, hip it hurts (oh and there's coffee to kill for on every street corner).
Yes, the audience can generally read subtle physical signs of genuine attraction between two actors, and appreciate the truth of their whispered admiration, but whether or not it really grabs them depends on their own attraction and relationship "maps".
The resulting pastry is impossibly soft, the sugar a subtle complement instead of the main attraction.
The desire to go north is an attraction to solitude, open space, subtle expressions of light and time... Sometimes going north is about whiteness.
The guitarist BILL FRISELL, the bassist RON CARTER and the drummer PAUL MOTIAN share an attraction to deep, evocative harmony and a subtle sense of mischief.
The undercurrent of attraction in the story is elegant and subtle, and yet we sense by the end the interest that Okenwa has in Raphael, and it snaps the beginning of the story into place.
It promises to be "a place for encounters, ideas and exchanges"; a site for citizens and experts to debate the future of the Mediterranean; an attraction where visitors will be "plunged into a subtle audiovisual experience".
