But the idea that emotions shape all activity in adaptive ways is quite a subtle one.
Tax and benefit changes have also had an effect, but a subtle one.
It is a subtle distinction, but one that could have negative tax implications.
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Maybe you want to get a really old car and show people that you take really good care of it (a more subtle signal, but an interesting one).
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In parts of Puerto Rico, for example, there are places where researchers used to hear four species at once and they are now hearing one or two, a subtle but important change.
The film is a difficult one to market because of its subtle yet tragic storyline, although the book, written by Andre Dubus III, was a bestseller in the US after being lauded by Oprah Winfrey.
There is, as one blogger told the BBC, "a subtle dancing around certain issues".
It may merely be a subtle way to keep noses to the grindstone for longer, says one cynic, causing more stress, not less.
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But both Mr Brooks's subtle approach and Mr Gingrich's unsubtle one suffer from a shared weakness.
"The travesty is these patients may be recovering in subtle ways but no one knows it, " says Joseph Giacino, a neuropsychologist at the JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute in Edison, New Jersey.
Variations can be as subtle as swapping one citrus out for another, choosing an aged tequila over a blanco or, as in Tommy's margarita from Tommy's Mexican Restaurant in San Francisco, ditching triple sec in favor of agave syrup.
Choosing as his running-mate Joe Lieberman, one of Mr Clinton's fiercest critics during the Monica escapade, was a subtle way of hinting at change.
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