It is a subtle, brief bit of mind control, but when Pennington puts his knee to the ground, it sparks in Edwards a memory of bus rides from his Kansas City days, with Joe Montana by his side.
Spasms may be subtle, brief, and sudden, the most subtle being a head nod or tonic eye rolling, which may be easily missed; they also show great variability in frequency [ 32, 34].
No hysterical anti-drug plot, just a brief, subtle moment that speaks volumes.
It was a brief, subtle sign that "Play/Pause" would be a transparent dance, with no pretense that it existed in a world other than ours.
In his aptly titled book, "Necessary Secrets," Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, has presented a subtle and instructive brief challenging the right of the press to make unilateral decisions to "publish and let others perish," as he puts it somewhat tendentiously or, as he quotes a newspaper editor, to publish "no matter the cost".
However, we instructed participants to keep their eyes open and fixated on a central visual stimulus, monitoring the fixation cross for brief, subtle, and unpredictable changes in luminance, and withholding the subsequent motor response when this occurred.
The situation with formal languages is actually somewhat subtler than our brief discussion indicates.
The gesture was brief and subtle, but filled with meaning.
"There are also what we call subtle expressions - not brief, but very small, almost imperceptible.
Like all the best taglines, it is surprisingly subtle for such a brief, seemingly glib remark.
If transcension is a developmental process, we may expect brief broadcasts or subtle forms of galactic engineering to occur in small portions of a few galaxies, the handiwork of young and immature civilizations, but constrained transcension should be by far the norm for all mature civilizations.
