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Wagner is the most obvious vehicle for this sort of thing, but here's another example that works in subtler ways.

Archive 2007-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Wagner is the most obvious vehicle for this sort of thing, but here's another example that works in subtler ways.

Warhorses Matthew Guerrieri 2007

They also regulate companies that kill people in subtler ways, through pollution for example.

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One docs not necessarily get rid of that kind of temperament by undergoing religious conversion, and indeed it is obvious that the illusion of having been reborn may allow one’s native vices to flourish more freely than ever, though perhaps in subtler forms.

Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool 1947

All nationalists consider it a duty to spread their own language to the detriment of rival languages, and among English-speakers this struggle reappears in subtler forms as a struggle between dialects.

Notes on Nationalism 1945

But it seems that the higher the stakes the subtler are the changes a man undergoes when Chaos agrees to trade with him. '

Elric of Melnibone Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1972

But -- and the more you study the Polynesian, the subtler are his strange laws and taboos -- the main provision in the Arioi constitution was undoubtedly conceived in the desire to prevent over-population.

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

Milt Kahl was disdainful of the animation in the early features, preferring the tighter, "subtler" animation of the fifties and sixties.

Good Animation, Bad Animation Steve Hulett 2008

They formed a kind of subtler element, -- an ancestral aether, -- universally extending and

Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877

It was kind of subtler than that, but I was able to use those seeds, and I just felt for her.

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