"See, the cops ain't subtle," explained Keisha Jones, who lives a few houses down on Preston Street.
Because Scar is the film's main antagonist, supervising animator Andreas Deja believed that "villains work really well when they're subtle", explaining, "to see them think and scheme and plot is much more interesting than showing them beating somebody up".
But a subtle calculus explains why, despite possibly stratospheric costs, the city's 34,000 subway and bus workers might still walk out: Proud but feeling largely unappreciated, they may prefer to stand up and show they will not be pushed around rather than accept a contract they feel continues a pattern of psychological and financial neglect.
"I think the reason Meena is so popular, particularly with little children, is that it conveys the messages in a very subtle way," explains Meena's creator Ram Mohan.
"There are calls that come in and give you direction in a subtle way," explained Ju Row Farr, one of the several artists in Blast Theory, the London-based artist collective that created the game.
"I'm not looking for some fancy presentation or extraordinarily subtle flavors," Barack Obama explains.
D. valgum can kill prey up to 13 times its own size thanks to subtle body adaptations, explains Larsen, including its wedged head and hind legs adapted to hold the insect and drag it apart.
This explains the subtle undercurrent of resentment between Central Americans and Mexicans in the film.
It also explains some subtle repositioning designed to put distance between the Conservatives and the free market orthodoxy with which they have become associated.
"The human ear-brain system is good at discerning changes in sound level," Choueiri explains, "but subtle changes in the relative timing between the wave components of a sound are too subliminal for humans to detect.
