He is openly involved in what he is playing and projects this involvement with body English and facial expressions that subtly underline the sense of his music.
His works subtly underline that nature is eternally beyond us, just as yesteryear's attempts to document the world now seem dubious.
It was deftly done, subtly underlining comparisons between Barack Obama, the first black president, and the 44-year-old from Florida seeking to be the first Latino occupant of the White House.
Though these sporting images might in themselves have been neutral, their compilation in Riefenstahl's Olympia subtly underlined a tenet of all authoritarian regimes: that individuals must be turned into machines that act as required, but do not think.
Seeking release in research in a Norfolk graveyard, she encounters a 19th-century tombstone inscribed to an "amiable and beloved son", subtly underlining the constant, nagging connection between the two narratives: the terror that her own lost child, like his 200-year-old shadow, will also die young, still beloved though far from amiable.
Until, that is, they quit her, and then her lonely-at-the-top condition is not too subtly underlined.
Mr. Reuss, without underlining the point (he subtly circumnavigates it instead), makes it evident that the self-eviction practiced by Mohr stands for the national eviction of his fellow Jews.
Barkhad Abdi is 28, so his casting underlines the claim that he was not a minor and subtly strengthens the American case.
"Citizenfour," in fact, enlarges and underlines ideas about architecture, privacy and culture that run more subtly through a number of Oscar nominees.
