The technique was subtly refined during the Kamakura period (1192 1333), but it suddenly declined in the Muromachi period (1338 1573).
Under the superb direction of the veteran Michael Greif, the show has been subtly refined, its brasher comedy softened, and the performances have grown in delicacy.
For Tallis we humans are "neither spirits entirely divorced from the natural, material world, nor a heap of atoms" but something more subtly refined.
Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of "rights" we recognize today.
That was done repeatedly at Natanz, as malware was refined and refined again, with each version subtly manipulating the computer controllers for the centrifuges so that the giant, spinning machines would gyrate wildly out of control and destroy themselves.
So refined in Mozart, so subtly introspective in Schubert, this estimable Japanese pianist plunged headlong into two Nocturnes, the 24 Preludes and the A-Flat Polonaise-Fantaisie on Monday night.
References to fashion, both the phenomenon and the métier, recur throughout the house -- sometimes precious (memo to stylists: lose the casually tossed pair of Gucci stilettos), sometimes sly (memo to Halston's ghost: check out the Ultrasuede ottoman in Jeff Lincoln's game room), and on occasion as refined as the details that subtly formalize construction in a suit from Anderson & Sheppard.
He took a bland building and refined it, adding shutters, multipaned windows, a cornice and decks framed in subtly detailed latticework.
How much more effortless might it be to select, refine and manipulate objects onscreen not by tapping buttons, but by sinking one hand into a single, subtly responsive surface?
