His work is full of reminiscences and he subtly engages with the past of his characters and their societies.
Philippe Manoury, 50 and now at the forefront of his generation, subtly engages electronics with his instrumental and vocal writing to brilliant effect.
But he also warned demonstrators subtly about engaging in confrontations or vandalizing buildings at public protests.
I hoped, too, that it would be the kind of character-driven war novel brave enough to engage subtly with politics, as the Zimbabwean writer Shimmer Chinodya does in his remarkable Harvest of Thorns, which begins in 1950s Rhodesia.
To me, it is not simply a beautifully written book but also one that most subtly and cleverly engages with our understanding of what storytelling can be, how we can find truth in fiction and evasions in the historical record.
The four novels and one volume of prose-poetry that he published all engage, however indirectly and subtly, with the catastrophic history of his time, specifically the second world war and the Shoah, and their aftermath.
When we control our own bodies, rather than an airplane's flaps and engines, we engage hundreds of different muscles, far more subtly.
Allow the visitors to approach you one at a time and attempt to engage in small talk about work while you subtly hint that you're on a date and want to be left alone.
"Don't engage in emotionally charged conversations or find a way to subtly insinuate blame for things that happened while you were together.
Although unrecognizable as people, they powerfully engage the emotions with their silly, earnest and very human activities, subtly revealing universal truths through simple interactions and transformations.
