Hanging above the bar in the billiard room next to him was a portrait of Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, so placed as to inevitably call to mind the boardroom scene in "American Psycho," in which the character's obsession with presentation reduces him to tremors upon the sight of a colleague's business card, its subtle off-white coloring trumping his bone.
Really, though, it was the kind of not so subtle, off-the-cuff threat we've come to expect from powerful people in my home state.
Instead, the percussion putters along with the android whirr of interlocking gears rather than the subtle off-beat grooves of hip-hop or R&B.
However, in the primary stem cells of the mammalian brain, subtle off-vertical tilting suffices for asymmetric divisions to occur.
BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said some observers suggested the US statement constituted a subtle backing off from more assertive claims over the weekend in which they said they could not rule out a direct Russian role.
"Money is always a hassle, but it has taken whatever subtle pressures off," Hirata said of the wage increase.
Marling's style of folk is subtle, coming off in a more offhanded way that falls lightly on the years.
The "air versus land" battle has become one of the most emotional issues in military science.Most kinds of weapons system be they helicopters, ships or armoured cars depend for their effectiveness on a subtle trade-off between protection, mobility and firepower.
These observations permit us to suggest an evolutionary pathway that is highlighted by subtle trade-offs to achieve an optimal compromise among solubility, stability, and catalytic activity.
Adenomas investigated by ISH showed generally increased expression, with a subtle falling-off of levels towards the tops of crypts (Fig. 1D).
It could be as ambitious as holding a Pride celebration or as subtle as an off-the-cuff comment about Siegfried Sassoon's homosexuality.
