It was a realistic, subtly developed character study and included circumstances drawn from the lives of both women particularly from Wolff's youthful adventure with the ensign.
Brink's portrait of a fond old man who has not "chickened out" of the new South Africa is satisfyingly slow to take shape, but while Ruben's "dead white male" literary points of reference and the ghost in his attic are subtly developed, the world outside is related in a shorthand of break-ins and murder.
And every track either slyly comments on or subtly develops the narrative, and frequently does both at once.
This subtly develops into an exploration of what makes a life worthwhile, a society worth living in.
Only the interpretive power of two actors in sync can establish an evolving bond between the pontificating Robert and John, deferential at first, subtly developing a sense of self.
Much of the album is very sparse - just piano, guitar, perhaps a little percussive shuffle and the demon violin of Steve Wickham, the songs built around a handful of repeated or subtly developing lines.
But with each new book – of poetry, fiction or memoir – Burnside incrementally advances his enterprise, burrowing deeper down through the roots of things and subtly developing his conclusions in the light of what he unearths.
Over the course of his career, Tsai, who has said that his 2014 feature, "Stray Dogs," may be his last, has developed a subtly comprehensive view of modern life; he reveals economic inequity and rotting infrastructure behind luxurious façades, and shows physical needs and emotional desires surging through the city's order and fracturing it, illuminating it, humanizing it.
"The control over pricing develops subtly," he said.
Hassell's Hal also develops subtly as the plays go on.
Through many films and two influential television series, Maverick and The Rockford Files, James Garner, who has died aged 86, developed a persona with a subtly different appeal.
