Is there some kind of subtle self-promotion going on?
The pictures are grand and beautiful, but the subtle self-consciousness of the "viewers" proves deadening.
Pop music now runs on an engine of subtle self-loathing.
This book has a subtle, self-subverting attitude to the past, its hindsight alternately rendered invisible and flagrant.
At one point, Scocca quotes me on the deliberate streak of optimism in my work — and he is not wrong in locating in that attitude a subtle self-interest.
Signoret's suitor is played by Mastroianni, in a subtle, self-deprecating performance (as a sleazy but basically decent used-car dealer) far removed from his hyperbolic work for De Sica.
(Johnson) Les Rogers: 'Summer Swells' (closes on Sunday) The stylistic promiscuity and subtle self-mockery characteristic of this painter become more substantial when deployed on small wood panels, the outer borders of which have been stained to resemble frames.
(Cotter) Les Rogers: 'Summer Swells' (through Sept. 2) The stylistic promiscuity and subtle self-mockery characteristic of this painter become more substantial when deployed on small wood panels, the outer borders of which have been stained to resemble frames.
Something else has changed: Strand is now old, and in the background of his poetry of the past ten years a ticking clock makes the subtle self-consciousness feel absurd.
Through Sept. 2 Les Rogers's abstract paintings always involve an element of subtle self-mockery, but lately he has brought it out into the open, making it more pointed and, in a way, more substantial.
The Middle Eastern characters go by English names, a technique that makes them less foreign to the reader and draws parallels between the subtle self-censorship of Western commercialism and the blunter kind practiced by the arts community in a dictatorship.
