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The wall is subtly stained with green stripes to suggest beach awnings.
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Generations before computers arrived, office automation technology was routinely failing to "subtly force" standardization.
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Although the character's lesbianism is subtly mentioned in the novel, the film makes it explicit.
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The brattish kids are subtly brought up to date, mostly successfully.
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However, the play also, more subtly, attacks the conventions of the radicalism of the time.
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The workmanship is of top quality, the modelling subtly worked to suggest a three-dimensional sculptural effect.
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Even at the best of times both men were inclined to look down on each other subtly.
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Signs and symbols are used to subtly convey the morals and biblical message across to the audience.
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The horticultural symbolism -- notions of organic purity, as well as fecundity v tidiness -- is subtly handled.
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The entrance facade is on the north side with an unadorned high gable and subtly patterned brickwork.
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