For someone who had welcomed so many innocents to Transylvania, the switch to a more consuming wickedness, blessed with yet wider ambitions and a subtler history (for Saruman, like Lucifer, fell from a glorious height), was an easy one.
It is a subtle, nuanced history of empire and colony, how the French in alliance with Spaniards and Italians, conquered a land four times the size of France and remade it as a laboratory for everything from pharmaceutical testing to urban design to jurisprudence.
I keep trying to like them, but the subtle distortions of history get in the way.
In later work these concerns become a more complex and subtle exploration of history and self.
Pavel has written the most interesting and subtle one-volume history of the novel currently available.
And I think they are," said Stefanie Syman, the author of "The Subtle Body," a history of yoga in the United States.
The dance is laden with subtle layers of history and personal meaning; it's premiere on May 2 took place in Riga, Latvia, Mr. Baryshnikov's hometown.
Unfinished, shamelessly partial (it omits, for example, all mention of his marriage), and chronologically untrustworthy, it provides a subtle and memorable history of the growth of Ruskin's distinctive sensibility.
Such reality shows with subtle nods to history are repeatable and are exportable around the world, where A + E Networks and other cable channel owners are growing faster than in the United States.
In a subtle nod to history, Mr. Clinton's alluded to Thomas Jefferson's warning against "entangling alliances" by asserting that the United States could not now "disentangle itself from the world".
