"It really is a shack," he would insist during the drive from Arizona, the desert falling away mile by mile, shrubbery and rocks transforming subtly from prickly saguaro and desiccated scrub oak to piñon, then aspen and spruce, an escalation of markers by which David had measured his own evolution, from nagging anticipation to delighted arrival, for more than twenty-five years.
Now those rooms have been transformed into subtly lit, opulent interiors that give the art of the belle époque the rich setting it deserves.
Before Ronan Noone's play "The Compass Rose" begins, you wait to see if life will subtly transform into theater.
But, just as much, the object also bears the story of the consumer, into whose daily activities it fits and whose daily life it will — however subtly — transform.
The book starts weirdly, with Fellows fleeing the attention of a ghost child that haunts his house, and grows steadily more surreal as he reads Boursier's stories one by one, with each reading of the text seeming to subtly transform the eponymous city.
That is to say, to promote an amorphous form of creativity as the model of labour and essence of economic value in the twenty-first century is to more subtly transform creativity into its opposite a sign of complicity within a given system.
So, after trying a rinse made of turmeric, lemon and water with no luck, and two weeks of debating with myself and friends and husband about it, I decided to try this all-natural, spray-on, permanent coloring system called Gray Riddance (cute name, no?), which promised to subtly transform ONLY the gray and leave the rest of my hair alone.
He looked subtly transformed.
In the editing room, Lanzmann subtly transformed the interviews.
He released a book that subtly transformed his image.
The one and only Santa seemed subtly transformed.
