At their most skilled, therapists are able to use their own reactions to patients as a navigational aid to finding the subtle emotional currents that control their patients' lives.

Reading the signs of disturbance, Jessica realized Alia was deliberately prolonging this moment, allowing the subtle currents to run their course here.

Rather they held themselves ,erect in the mud, and they seemed to move with the submerged, subtle currents of the Swamp.

He has said his inspiration was the yoga concept of returning "to where we come from" by following subtle currents in the nerves of the spine to what he calls "a place of bliss."

He felt the subtle current of electro- encephalic vibrations streaming from the rod toward the two Kangas.

The subtle current of vibrations between the thrust of successive waves on the rudder told him that all was well - his ship was answering as she had always answered.

In the subtle currents of shogunate politics, he is said to have gone to great lengths to develop a sense of impartiality in judgement.

Not in the way that Samena sensed the presence of Yaomauitl and his offspring, through disturbed emotions, and subtle currents of fear; but through plain analytical logic.

Just hearing Ruth's voice helped to soothe Jaxom, who was seething at the subtle, and not so subtle, currents.

She has a great grasp of subtle social and emotional currents.