Indeed, he was gradually and subtly making himself valuable not indispensable, for nobody was that, but valuable.

Democrats, I fear, may be subtly making the same calculations about the white vote and may refuse to push a strong 1991 civil rights bill.

He subtly made the words a mockery.

But if there were ways to subtly make us look inferior, to insure Russian superiority in each flying engagement, I wouldn't put tricks like the altimeter past them.

The dancers share a bickering affection that comes not from rivalry but from deep camaraderie, which subtly makes itself apparent in the dance.

Lewis also uses the proverbs to subtly make fun of the Calormenes.

Using a pinhole camera, Ms. Ess makes subtly toned color photographs that are visionary versions of reality.

Without hanging symbols on them, he subtly makes them represent opposing members of the class system anywhere: the idealists and the pirates.

It's very pretty, for one thing, Ms. Spacek said, but it also subtly makes the point, which becomes important later, that the window is open.