No one today makes more telling use of subtle painterly rhetoric than Currin does.
Yet as Mr Cook explains, perhaps Nasser's greatest failure, along with that of his peacemaking successor, Anwar Sadat, and their stolid inheritor, Mr Mubarak, was of a more subtle nature".Their rhetoric about social justice, economic change and democracy never matched the everyday reality of the vast majority of Egyptians," he writes.
You don't have to buy the notion that the decision for voters is this binary, but no one ever said political rhetoric was subtle.
Subtle tweaks to the rhetoric, a shifting of emphasis, a misting of meaning, a blurring of ideologies.
These passages' subtle connections to imperial rhetoric allow them to subvert it, too.
The "Embassy," in Book 9, in which the Greeks send a trio of chieftains to appeal to Achilles, shows a subtle grasp of psychology and rhetoric.
The government's response to the Finch review, published about a year ago, revealed a subtle but important shift in rhetoric about open access.
Many economists and businesspeople assume that, as so often, Mr Berlusconi's provocative rhetoric masks a subtler purpose.
By offering subtle approving nods to Hanson's rhetoric, Howard built a core working-class and lower-middle-class constituency for his Liberal party in formerly Labour electorates in outer metropolitan suburbs.
Furthermore, Trouille (1994, 192 193) finds in Diderot's essay on woman a striking example of a "pseudo-feminist rhetoric, that is, "a subtle paternalism and a tacit complicity with the status quo".
