As ruthless and cruel as he is intelligent and cunning, the Baron's greatest skill is his talent for the subtle and clever manipulation of others through their weaknesses or his understanding of human nature.

The changes between Exile III and Blades of Exile were more subtle and were again of the color and style nature.

Many scholars have argued that Matthew is simply an expanded version of Mark, but it is also a creative reinterpretation of the source, stressing Jesus ' teachings as much as his acts, and making subtle changes in order to stress Jesus ' divine nature – Mark's " young man " who appears at Jesus ' tomb, for example, becomes a radiant angel in Matthew.

A Nasreddin story usually has a subtle humour and a pedagogic nature.

Therefore the four schools can be seen as a gradual path from a rather easy-to-grasp, " realistic " philosophical point of view, to more and more complex and subtle views on the ultimate nature of reality, that is on emptiness and dependent arising, culminating in the philosophy of the Mādhyamikas, which is widely believed to present the most sophisticated point of view.

In 2005, Ebert opined that video games are not art, and are inferior to media created through authorial control, such as film and literature, stating, " video games can be elegant, subtle, sophisticated, challenging and visually wonderful ", but " the nature of the medium prevents it from moving beyond craftsmanship to the stature of art ".

There is a deep understanding of human nature and the environment .. sites hold ' feelings ' which cannot be described in physical terms .. subtle feelings that resonate through the bodies of these people ..

As with freedmen and slaves of the Imperial Family women of the imperial family gained some benefits from the fall of the Republic, but because the nature of the Principate was to hide dictatorship such power had to be subtle and kept out of the public eye when possible.

Four works were shaped by a man of subtle mind, interested in not just narrative and describing opportunities of his material, but in exploring its equivocal nature.

In 1699, he delivered an address to the Académie Royale des Sciences on the nature of light and color, wherein he argued that different colors resulted out of different frequencies in the pressure vibrations of subtle matter, much as different musical tones derived from different frequencies in the vibrations of air.

Nonetheless, thanks to the subtle scripts and outstanding ensemble cast, over the years the program evolved into a warm, often humorous celebration of human nature.

He wrote books and essays on a wide range of subjects, including philosophy of a less technical sort, literary criticism, the history of ideas, politics, human nature, morals, the subtle influence of religion on culture and social psychology, all with considerable wit and humor.

E. H. Carr writes of Dostoevsky's character the young student Raskolnikov in the novel Crime and Punishment who decides to murder a ' vile and loathsome ' old woman money lender on the principle of transcending conventional morals: " the sequel reveals to us not the pangs of a stricken conscience ( which a less subtle writer would have given us ) but the tragic and fruitless struggle of a powerful intellect to maintain a conviction which is incompatible with the essential nature of man.

A notable feature of the stories is the subtle observance of the nature of Leadership.

While predictions are necessarily about the future ( at least in relation to the time the prediction was made ), the nature of this future can be subtle ( e. g., " I predict that he died a week ago "— the prediction is about future discovery or proof of the date of death, not about the death itself ).

A more subtle application of Neo's ability is a heightened awareness of the simulated nature of the Matrix, enabling him to easily detect Agents, Exiles, and other anomalous phenomena ( such as the presence of explosives ).

Max Heindel divided the subtle body into: Vital Body made of Ether, our instrument for specializing the vital energy of the sun, seen by clairvoyant vision to extend about an inch and a half outside the body ); the Desire body, which is our emotional nature and pervades both the vital and dense bodies, seen by clairvoyant vision to extend about 16 inches outside our visible body, related to the Desire World ; and the Mental body, which functions like a mirror, reflects the outer world and enables the Ego to transmit its commands as thought, word and action.

The artists put their cameras in places that make Eastern State Penitentiary unique to capture the subtle ways nature plays upon the structure of the building.

However, they seem to have a much more subtle, and complex, understanding of the final nature of the Seldon Plan.

The subtle nature of the manipulation is the power of colorgrading, as it contributes to the scene without being noticed.

In such debates the various statements and their refutations are often of a Midrashic nature, sometimes incorporating subtle humour and should not always be taken at face value.

Because of the ephemeral or subtle nature of his work, this book became not just an introduction but, for many artists and art students, the primary way that Robert Irwin's work was experienced.

Water is then added, and the precise nature of this water has subtle effects on the taste and palatability of the shōchū.

He found enough beauty and romance in all that was around him, and, in his Punch work, enough subtle humour in nature seized at her most humorous moments to satisfy him.

This subtle dissatisfaction is referred to as the dukkha of conditioned states ( saṃkhāra-dukkha ).

* This is the deepest, most subtle level of dukkha ; it includes " a basic unsatisfactoriness pervading all existence, all forms of life, due to the fact that all forms of life are changing, impermanent and without any inner core or substance.

* This is a subtle form of suffering arising as a reaction to qualities of conditioned things, including the skandhas, the factors constituting the human mind.

Derrida contributed to " the understanding of certain deeply hidden philosophical presuppositions and prejudices in Western culture ", arguing that the whole philosophical tradition rests on arbitrary dichotomous categories ( such as sacred / profane, signifier / signified, mind / body ), and that any text contains implicit hierarchies, " by which an order is imposed on reality and by which a subtle repression is exercised, as these hierarchies exclude, subordinate, and hide the various potential meanings.

At the time of death the mind is in a subtle state ( clear light ) that can open the mind to enlightenment if it is skilfully used to meditate on emptiness ( shunyata ).

During these stages, the mind is in a very subtle state, and an advanced practitioner can use these natural states to make significant progress on the spiritual path.

Gendibal demonstrates to the Speaker's Table that the brain of Sura Novi, a Hamishwoman ( the farming population of Trantor are known as the Hamish ), shows a very subtle change in her mind that could only have been done by an agency more powerful than the Second Foundation.

Players may exhibit physical tells, in which a subtle, often repeated, visual cue inadvertently reveals their state of mind during a game.

By 1852, Benjamin's reputation as an eloquent speaker with a subtle legal mind was sufficient to win him selection by the state legislature to the U. S. Senate.

In one version, one maintains awareness as thoughts arise and dissolve within the ' field ' of mind, one does not accept or reject them, rather one lets the mind wander as it will until a subtle sense of immanence dawns.

Foch's pre-war contributions as military theorist and lecturer have also been recognized, and he has been credited, in one instance, as " the most original and subtle mind in the French army " in the early 20th century.

He soon became known for his keen and subtle mind and his vast learning.

Secondly, there was a subtle psychological reason, the premise being that troops heading into battle wouldn't mind staying at a place where cigarettes must be plentiful and troops about to depart for combat would be somehow comforted in places with familiar names of cities back home ( Camp Atlanta, Camp Baltimore, Camp New York, and Camp Pittsburgh, among others ).

The researchers claim the subconscious mind is sensitive to a subtle association between the rocks.

Devised with American readers in mind, the Xenos Books translation makes subtle modifications in the content, reorganizes the book's structure and adds two new poems.

:" Sleep, tossing of mind, attachment to objects, subtle desires and cravings, laziness, lack of Brahmacharya, gluttony are all obstacles in meditation.

Secondly, there was a subtle psychological reason, the premise being that troops heading into battle wouldn't mind staying at a place where cigarettes must be plentiful and troops about to depart for combat would be somehow comforted in places with familiar names of cities back home ( Camp Atlanta, Camp Baltimore, Camp New York, and Camp Pittsburgh, among others ).

The inner and alternative meanings refer to more subtle understandings of what Shambhala represents in terms of one's own body and mind ( inner ), and the meditation practice ( alternative ).

Secondly, there was a subtle psychological reason, the premise being that troops heading into battle wouldn't mind staying at a place where cigarettes must be plentiful and troops about to depart for combat would be somehow comforted in places with familiar names of cities back home ( Camp Atlanta, Camp Baltimore, Camp New York, and Camp Pittsburgh, among others ).

Jackall argues that bureaucracy as implemented in the large American corporations he investigated " regularizes people's experiences of time and indeed routinizes their lives by engaging them on a daily basis in rational, socially approved, purposive action ; it brings them into daily proximity with and subordination to authority, creating in the process upward-looking stances that have decisive social and psychological consequences ; it places a premium on a functionally rational, pragmatic habit of mind that seeks specific goals ; and it creates subtle measures of prestige and an elaborate status hierarchy that, in addition to fostering an intense competition for status, also makes the rules, procedures, social contexts, and protocol of an organization paramount psychological and behavioral guides.

They are simply the material supports that act as a trigger to help the tertön reach the subtle level of mind where the teaching has really been concealed.

Gavin was able to elicit her subconscious mind's recognition of a dangerous situation that compelled her conscious mind to act to save her through its basic survival instinct, bringing to the victim's conscious mind that it was the " subtle signal that warned her.