More interesting, though, was his "Dilating Music," an atmospheric exploration of meaty lower brass textures, complete with subtle slides and juxtapositions of muted and open timbres, expertly played by the trombone quartet Guidonian Hand.
Mr. Bollenback, for his part, is fluent in 1960s-style organ-jazz guitaccompanimentent as an almost classical style: the muted tone; the short, fast runs; and subtle slides.
Othello (John Douglas Thompson) at first lets these subtle digs slide by, but Mr. Eisenberg's insidious inflections grow more pronounced, and Mr. Thompson's Othello goes from calm to needled to unnerved.
If you want subtle layering, slide the elastic down so there is only an inch or so of hair remaining in the ponytail.
Because Gleason grading is done manually by a pathologist visually examining glass (or digital) slides subtle morphologic and architectural differences of histological attributes, in addition to other factors, may result in grading errors and hence cause high inter-observer variability.
Purporting to describe only those instances in which a rape is falsely alleged, its subtle sneer in fact slides backwards towards real rapes, undermining every victim by association with that classic trope: the lying, vengeful slut.
Mr. Bazan's slightly distorted guitar and the subtle keyboards of Casey Foubert slid menace into the soothing music, disrupting moral certitude.
Allmusic said of the album: Jack White's voice is a singular, evocative combination of punk, metal, blues, and backwoods while his guitar work is grand and banging with just enough lyrical touches of slide and subtle solo work... Meg White balances out the fretwork and the fretting with methodical, spare, and booming cymbal, bass drum, and snare.
Cradled in a hammock the other day, I couldn't imagine anywhere in the world I would rather be, tracking subtle variations in the changing slides: for example, a matchbook first closed, then open, then burning, then, finally, burned.
I know very well the technical term for this and every other style of shoe ever invented, and I would be happy, if called upon, to talk extemporaneously for a couple of hours about the subtle differences among mules and slides and thongs).
Lomax wrote that the exactly milled and tuned strings of the guitar offered "a range of notes that, with the subtle manipulation of finger and slide, can be made to emit the nuance of speech and really talk the blues in every region, as well as define other wordless feelings with the utmost delicacy".
