There are other, more subtle protests against the status quo, like Maria Bamford using her commencement address at the University of Minnesota to discuss exactly how she negotiated her speaking fee, teaching her liberal arts crowd to value their work.
They donned brass rings on their middle fingers — a not-too-subtle protest against California's Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage — in a yoga studio there while the ban was in place.
The film contains a subtle anti-gun protest as well as a direct homage to Hitchcock - perhaps to its detriment.
His art is a sometimes subtle, sometimes furious protest against what might be called delusions of normalcy; the sexual, racial and religious prejudices these delusions engender are examined at their point of origin, the childhood home.
A favorite tactic was to place his hand in front of his face, but he later invented more subtle forms of protest, folding his body inward, with his hair in front of his face.
It turns out that the album Songs for Tibet, by the band (of sorts, it's mainly a compilation thing) The Art of Peace Foundation, didn't please Chinese authorities, especially since Olympic athletes were offered it for free as a "subtle form of protest".
I don't mean to single out Keizer; he's made much more subtle acts of protest, such as the Girl on a Swing and the ubiquitous Ants.
Asked if he thought the athletes chose Lomong as a subtle way of protesting China's support for the Sudanese government, Ueberroth said he did not know, but said, "Either way, it's fine.
The argument on both sides has stayed narrowly within the bounds of Islam, with the opposition even deftly using green, the color of Islam and the family of the prophet, as a subtle symbol that its protests are rooted in the faith.
