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She, too, is concerned with `` the becoming, the process of realization '', but she does not think in terms of subtle variations of spatial or temporal patterns.
The markets are far too subtle, and the last word in these endeavors will doubtless never be written, for the enchanting index is about as nebulous as the fountain of youth.
The Duke's subtle moves and changes in emphasis during the battle – something his opponents failed to realise until it was too late – had caught the French in a tactical vice.
Mike Emery of The Austin Chronicle praised the film's " subtle touches "— such as radio broadcasts heard in the background describing grisly murders around Texas — and said that what made it so dreadful was that it never strayed too far from potential reality.
It has been suggested, though, that the plans were abandoned because the resemblance to Versailles was too subtle and not strong enough ; at this time, it was impossible for any sovereign to visualise a palace that did not emulate Versailles ' repetitive Baroque form.
" Dutch anarchist-pacifist Bart de Ligt ’ s 1936 treatise The Conquest of Violence ( with its none too subtle allusion to Kropotkin ’ s The Conquest of Bread ) was also of signal importance.
Goodman's character is a failed lounge singer named Ralph Jones whose grandmother had an affair with the fictional Duke of Warren, in the line of succession of the " House of Windam ", a not too subtle play on the House of Windsor, the current royal house of the sitting monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.
" The New York Times noted, " Mr. Hawke's subtle and strong performance makes it clear that Troy feels things too deeply to risk failure and admit he's feeling anything at all.
Similarly, when learning the conjugation of foreign irregular verbs, the morphology is often too subtle to be learned explicitly in a short time.
One of the points of harmony is, however, too subtle for us to believe that a forger evolved it from the works of Persius: the Life gives the impression of a " bookish " youth, who never strayed far from home and family.
They might also cause slight irregularities in the cosmic microwave background, too subtle to have been detected yet but possibly within the realm of future observability.
In his noble trilogy on the history of Giovanna queen of Naples it is sometimes actually difficult to realize on a first reading what has happened or is happening, or how, or why, or by what agency a defect alone sufficient, but unhappily sufficient in itself, to explain the too general ignorance of a work so rich in subtle and noble treatment of character, so sure and strong in its grasp and rendering of high actions and high passions, so rich in humour and in pathos, so royally serene in its commanding power upon the tragic mainsprings of terror and of pity.
Ferrer has criticized Transpersonal Psychology for being too loyal to the perennial philosophy, for introducing a subtle Cartesianism, and for being too preoccupied with intrasubjective spiritual states ( inner empiricism ).
: As a picture ( does ) not ( exist ) without a support, or as a shadow ( does ) not ( exist ) without a post and so forth ; so too the instrument ( linga or karana ) does not exist without that which is specific ( i. e. a subtle body ).
The ska sound and rhythms were undergoing a change by the late 1960s, musicians were slowing the beat and introducing more subtle rhythmic pulses that audiences found less frantic and therefore easier to dance too.
However, the shade of green material chosen was too subtle for the engineers ' liking and so Bubbles ' body colour in Test Card F was retouched ( this can be seen from the edges of his image ) to make it more saturated and also to give it a higher luminance value on screen.
One example is a general purpose classification program called AutoClass which was originally used to classify stars according to spectral characteristics that were otherwise too subtle to notice.
This latter frame is considered to be an inertial reference frame, although it too is non-inertial in more subtle ways.
In one study, one third of patients with HVS had " subtle but definite lung disease " that prompted them to breathe too frequently or too deeply.
This is the case of Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and its sequel: the player can choose one out of three mercenaries to play with, but the story line remains the same, and the differences in gameplay ( speed, strength and stealth ) are too subtle to invite further replays.
However, it can also be said, without too subtle of an insight, that Rufus becomes the immortal once he embarks upon his journey.
" This message appears over the repeated words " You're going to reap just what you sow " which The Guardian described as " a none too subtle message: keep writing the cheque.
This was the way the locals would prove to visitors that the rock, in fact, moved, since the movement was too subtle to be detected by the naked eye.

too and dig
`` I wish you good luck, but please don't dig up too tough a case for me this close to election.
Weight too far forward can cause the bow to dig into the waves.
Dwarves following an adamantine vein will eventually dig too deep and unleash what's euphemistically called " Hidden fun stuff.
For example, displaying the Gantt chart view by default encourages users to focus on timed task scheduling too early, rather than identifying objectives, deliverables and the imposed logical progress of events ( dig the trench first to put in the drain pipe ).
It required 12 locks to climb over the hill though the town ; Brindley had found the earth too soft to dig a cutting though at the time.
Because of its strategic location on the Yangtze River, Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, believed that the power of fengshui in Zhenjiang was too strong, so he ordered 3, 000 prisoners to dig a tunnel through a hill to divert the power away.
The Gummers kill it with firearms, but another of the monsters disables their vehicle, and Burt informs Val that the creatures dig too deep to be affected by conventional gunfire.
What makes Chaz so funny is that he ’ s too vain to realize what an obvious fake he is, and thus his attempts to appear sophisticated, suave, or innocent only dig him in deeper: on the strength of his PhD he arrogantly insists on being addressed as “ Dr.
Other examples are when the characters escaped on a bulldozer which was too big to be toppled ( weighing 30 tons ) or undermined ( it could drive away before the graboids had a chance to dig away enough of the dirt under it ), the creatures dug a trap in its path.
For instance, in the first film, when two graboids discover that the bulldozer is too heavy to lift, they simply dig a trap in its path.
With the ground being too hard to dig graves, the deceased in early years were often shipped down the Denniston Incline to the cemetery at Waimangaroa.
The 100th Brigade ( United Kingdom ) of the 33rd Division was ordered to ' consolidate ' but while attempting to dig trenches in the southern tip of the wood, it became all too apparent to the brigade's commander that High Wood had not been captured.
Rescue leaders, chief among them being Henry St. George Tucker Carmichael, believing the cave impassable and too dangerous, began to dig a shaft to reach the chamber behind Collins.
While the location of the site that Koldewey excavated was well known and recognised as where Babylon had been situated, they argue that the dig site was too far from the Euphrates River to have been irrigated with the amount of water required for a green garden, and the ancient Greek historian Strabo stated that the Hanging Gardens were located right next to the river.
Generally, Norfolks are not given to digging but, like any dog, will dig out of boredom when left alone for too long a period.
If the collar is too tight, it may dig too deeply into the skin or the strap around the muzzle may push into the dog's eyes.
In much of Tibet, the ground is too hard and rocky to dig a grave, and, due to the scarcity of fuel and timber, sky burials are often more practical than cremation.
[...] I didn't have to dig too deep for the role.
As the ground was too hard to dig graves, the British would pile the dead bodies of their killed outside the buildings, and drag and dump them inside a dried well during the night.
[...] I didn't have to dig too deep for the role.
The siege was very difficult for the Spanish, because the soil was too loose to dig holes, and the city defense works were hard to break.
*" Banana Boat ( Day-O )" by Stan Freberg, produced in the 1950s by Capitol Records, features ongoing disagreement between an enthusiastic lead singer and a bongo-playing beatnik ( Peter Leeds ) who " don't dig loud noises " and had the catchphrase " You're too loud, man ".

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