In the last few years, the corporation has subtly, gradually pulled its head out of the sand on this issue, not admitting earlier errors but simply stressing that the world's economies still demand huge amounts of oil and gas — which is, alas, true.
In the months and years since, subtly, gradually, he has set about eroding lingering perceptions of rugby as a sport for the privileged in a city dominated by the omnipotent, ravenous beast of football and all its social and cultural implications.
Even as the movie delves deep into the characters' complex emotional lives, it subtly and gradually — yet ineluctably — conjures a world that I was sorry to leave.
In James's novella buttoned-up tensions fester into more lurid obsessions subtly and gradually — an effect echoed in Britten's compulsively organized score, which includes a 12-tone theme screwed slowly in permutations throughout the work.
While it's enduringly important to revisit works of well-known greatness — their merits reside precisely in their complexity, in the vastness of thought that reveals itself only subtly and gradually, through multiple viewings — it's also important to experience the shock of the new by means of the old, to discover an artistic past that is unsettled and has yet to be known.
Another man can marry and make you happy' " (Man in community mixed sex FGD) Furthermore, in men's view, women used cunning skills to outwit their spouses, subtly and gradually eroding the latter's influence and authority while covertly engaging in extramarital relationships.
Sometimes this crowding out happens gradually, subtly, indirectly.
All this is revealed gradually, subtly, as if we were there in the community.
The driving perpetual motion that opens the second movement — "insistent, nasal, snarling, relentless" — gradually, subtly turns sinuous.
It began with a reworked jump shot, a thicker frame, stronger legs, a sharper view of the court — enhancements that came gradually, subtly, through study and practice and hundreds of hours spent with assistant coaches, trainers and shooting instructors over 18 months.
That way, Ailes wrote in a memo, they could "gradually, subtly, slowly" introduce "our philosophy"—conservatism—"in the news".
