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Maybe then we'd spend less time worrying about serial killers and plane crashes, and more time concerned with the subtler and slower disasters we face: the silent buildup of plaque in our arteries, the gradual changes in our climate.
But there's a subtler benefit to the digitization of the world.
There is a subtler, quieter disadvantage in having those privileged traits and yet feeling history to be moving away from you; that while the past was hospitable to people like you, the future will be more hospitable to others; that the world is growing less familiar, less yours day by day.
There's not a lot of room for either in the malarial swamps of the Asmat or in the chilling winds of Tibet, but they have, nevertheless, through time and ritual, forged a traditional mystique of the Earth that is based not on the idea of being self-consciously close to it, but on a far subtler intuition: the idea that the Earth itself can only exist because it is breathed into being by human consciousness.
Although not always noticeable to younger viewers and/or people who only have an interest in more recent horror films, each and every single episode contains a few obvious and subtler references towards classic and influential titles.
The film is loaded with all kinds of jokes ranging from the blatantly obvious to the more subtler kind that you must pay attention to everything in the frame or you'll likely miss them.
Despite loving Rita Hayworth, finding the final few sequences of the film intriguing and being able to appreciate some of the subtler "symbolic" aspects of the cinematography, The Lady from Shanghai didn't quite work for me.
As in "Todo Sobre mi Madre" and "Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios," Almodovar uses subtler methods than others to draw attention to important details.
1) The humor is subtler in these movies, and Sandler is much more subdued.
The army is unlikely to move on Musharraf directly unless subtler methods fail.
These subtler symptoms may constitute a pre-konzo condition, providing a warning that a child is approaching the disease’s threshold.
Rather, it means that modern racism often presents in subtler but equally powerful ways.
To grasp it, however, societies will need a subtler understanding of the interplay of identity, power, and technology than they managed during Luther’s time.
Consequently, the arts of communication in these free countries are far subtler, skillful, and more varied than those in the totalitarian ones.
Such examples illustrate the possible dramatic side-effects of DBS, but subtler effects are also possible.
The second case for expansionary fiscal contraction is subtler.
But there is also a third, subtler reading of the EU-US split, which has to do with beliefs.
Because the proposed members of this new "united economic space" share Russian as a lingua franca and a common past within the USSR, outsiders may dismiss too readily subtler differences in culture, outlook, and even vocabulary.
As John Maynard Keynes put it, “there is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
In these structures, something subtler than overall topology changes across orthologs.
The subtler force is much stronger.
But the relationship between growth and political stability is subtler and less linear than we like to believe.
But the enrichment provided by the humanities was no less enduring, though its subtler nature makes it harder to track.
The movement also raised the bar sexually: Shere Hite let women know in 1973 that if they could not reach orgasm through intercourse alone, they weren’t aberrant – they could ask for more and subtler sexual attention.
After Obama took office, he sought to introduce a gentler, subtler tone.
The West’s response will intensify dramatically if Russia deploys forces across its borders, whatever the pretext; should Russia adopt subtler methods of political destabilization, Western pressure will build more gradually, but build it will.
Other defects may be subtler and, perhaps, insignificant for farm animals.
What happened earlier this week was much subtler – in effect, a shot across America’s bow.
But in following this framework, policymakers need to ask themselves a subtler question: Is strong economic engagement more effective than unbending confrontation in achieving the desired policy changes in China?
Surely diplomacy and other subtler forms of engagement would go further toward changing a country’s standards than saber rattling and trade warfare ever could.