Glassford's work runs a different risk: When our weakness for the minimal conceptual look runs its course, its
subtler artistic merits might go unnoticed.
Physicians have long thought that consistently high concentrations of sugar in the blood lead to the various complications of diabetes, but new studies hint at
subtler causes.
But where most projects of this kind consciously or unconsciously play on the contrasts between present and past, "Proximites," as the name implies, opted for a much
subtler pursuit of parallels and echoes.
Most people may learn to ignore behaviours that others refuse responsibility for, from obvious gaffes -- such as burping in public -- to the
subtler intricacies of lying, Ekman argues.
His projects were rejected as "eclectic"; it was difficult for critics to look beyond the variety of images in his work to see the perhaps
subtler theoretical consistencies and groundbreaking spatial development.
Lyne says his group will continue monitoring PSR1829-10 to corroborate their findings and to examine whether
subtler changes in the radio emissions indicate the presence of a second, more massive planet.
Setting aside for a moment the question of whether this obsession with redefining Europe is merely a
subtler and more insidious manifestation of the nationalist tendencies that the biennial's founders are trying to rebuke, the Slovenian capital made sense as the host city for Manifesta 3 not merely because of its storied past as a cultural center.
Several buses might suffice to hold researchers still investigating cold fusion as a far
subtler phenomenon.
But the pictures she makes of/with them are enlivened by a sense of linguistic play
subtler and more sophisticated than that demonstrated by most entries in the broad category of "text-based art." Baum's contemplations of verbal signification and the visual conditions of reading tease moments of poetry from sober systems of knowledge classification.
The researchers also express concern that
subtler abnormalities in organs or cells may accompany the more obvious changes in physique.
ILIU (Destroyer), is a
subtler investigation of visual tension, as the forms on the parallelogram-shaped painting create the illusion that the top and bottom of the canvas are not quite parallel.
But
subtler losses are harder to detect by simply monitoring ozone levels.
It might be tempting with an ostensibly realistic drama like Cotton Mary to simply try and squeeze out as much social and historical information as possible, but that would be to miss out on the film's
subtler shadings: Mary's failings and ultimate tragedy may be based on the moral depravity of British-Indian relations of the Raj, and the singular situation of the Anglo-Indian, but they are ultimately her own as well.
He subsequently refined his methods to develop new,
subtler invariants that distinguish between smooth manifolds even when they have the same quadratic form and are therefore topologically equivalent.
From loud hues like fuchsia and raspberry to
subtler tones like salmon and millenial pink, there are tons of shades to choose from.