Some prefer a less strident, if more subtle, role in the chorus.
Ms. Anderson said that ever since the first head count, in 1790, the census had played an important if subtle role in reflecting preoccupations and shaping social thought.
But the mayor has also played an essential if more subtle role in nudging the city to gradually let go of its grief.
"Batman is a complex character with the subtle role of a hero just outside of the law," explains Jamie Walker, studio director at Rocksteady.
The novelist charts the tiniest vocal inflection, the subtle role that khaki trousers play in marking your place in society, or how a character wears his fleece jacket.
In a more subtle role, Winona Ryder excelled as Archer's deceptively vapid fiancée, May, who understands far more than she lets on.
Until now, the Socialist president, François Hollande, who had positioned himself as an anti-warmongerer with the early withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, had been planning a more subtle role in west Africa.
Instead, some of the former coaches, along with diversity experts, questioned whether race may be playing a more subtle role, with minorities routinely funneled into a job at first base that is less demanding than the one at third.
Mr Monks also cites the anti-union influence of business schools, calling them "bible colleges for the American way".The changing nature of the economy in big industrial nations has also played a more subtle role in undermining unions.
The election this year, several broadcast executives say, has played a not very subtle role in whipping up the anger directed at television and radio broadcasters, particularly since Janet Jackson flashed one breast in front of the largest television audience of the year in the Super Bowl halftime show.
He praised Andrew Gale, who has been forced to stand down as captain with the title in reach because of the two-match suspension imposed for crossing the line in consecutive Roses matches, for a subtle role in allowing Lyth and Lees to establish themselves at the top of the order.
