Of course, such issues would be much more nuanced, much more subtle - if, indeed, they ever arise.
In the study, Rankin and her colleagues made use of The Awareness of Social Inference Test, or TASIT, which uses videotaped subtle-as-a-sledgehammer scenarios of people lying or being sarcastic.
When viewing from six meters away, the difference between native and upscaled was there but it was subtle -- it was just a sense of the image being sharper and more natural at the edges of objects.
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For this critical free-for-all lends itself to subversion of various subtle and not-so-subtle kinds.
To emphasize the vessel's underbelly, Lycett highlights it with a harmonizing pink-cream glaze enriched with a subtle sponge-daubing of additional gold.
And it's thanks to those intangibles -- subtle conveyors of personality -- in the spoken word.
That brawl came at San Francisco's Open Mobile Summit last week, where tensions boiled over into a series of subtle (and not-so-subtle) jabs between Google exec Rich Miner, Symbian veep Jerry Panagrossi, and Nokia's Mary McDowell.
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As a young man I thought I knew everything, and as a middle-aged man I still think I know everything but have allowed myself some subtle U-turns on things I once believed to be universal truths.
Every year some are pushed up but virtually none down, resulting in a subtle year-on-year shift.
In a subtle send-up of how very odd human beings can be, Mr Yehoshua evokes thoughts of fate, death and how people come to feel that they belong.
But keep an eye out for the subtle signs - complaints about sluggish bank lending and helpful suggestions about promoting investment, that are really veiled criticisms of the Treasury and its boss.
The company is still aiming for that classicly subtle retro-futuristic look on these new devices, so you might not be swayed if you've never been a fan of the aesthetic in the past.
Airlines say a more-subtle change comes from improved relations with air-traffic controllers.
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As embodied by the rock singer-turned-actor Jacques Dutronc, van Gogh is subtle, good-humored, ironic, bristling with attitude, and burdened with mental crises.
The not-very-subtle threat is that if they back Tsipras, they will be out on their ear.
But few people in Hollywood believe Iger will succeed Michael Eisner--a not-so-subtle slight to both men.
The not-so-subtle inference is that only a greater reliance on Keynesian policies can help us avoid it.
Expect potential challengers to start laying out their stalls in a not-so-subtle way in the coming days.
In the late 1960s, however, federal and state highway officials began a not-too-subtle plan to destroy Route 66.
Large ads painted on the side of a semi-trailer, in not-so-subtle contrast to the gently rolling, central Texas landscape.
"The not-so-subtle insinuation that Ms. Kelley attempted to extort money from your clients is unfounded and reprehensible, " DePrimo responded.
The Soloist utilizes SurfaceSound flat panel speaker technology, and packs a subtle 10 watt-per-channel Tripath amplifier into a thin, black housing.
Perhaps it was the not-so-subtle implication that it would boost my appeal to women and help me to defeat the forces of evil.
Somebody who will point out that the king has no clothes on and, with one not-so-subtle comment, remove the awkwardness of almost any situation.
The first is the dominance of big, rich red wines, such as California cabernet sauvignon, with a lack of more subtle or lighter-bodied wines.
It is such whiffs of Welsh triumphalism that English-only speakers object to the not-very-subtle implication that the only real Welsh are those who speak the language.
Yes, it feels good in the hand, owed in part to that matte plastic back and subtle arc S-like curve, but the materials feel cheap.
But there are also many subtle, under-the-hood changes, including performance improvements.
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It's a not-so-subtle jab: Goliath has the same colors as the University of Oregon, whose athletic programs have been heavily supported by Nike Chairman Philip Knight.
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