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Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.
Maurice Saatchi
Simplicity
Outcome
Point
Goal
Subtlety
Technical
Starting
Starting Point
When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.
Moby
Music
People
Dance
Big
Sense
Dance Music
Air
Top
Tend
Steer
Songs
Over
Over-The-Top
Like
Make
Tracks
Festivals
Hands
Front
Being
Subtlety
Interests
Away
Play
Techno
Played
Playing
I like songs with a lot of heart and feeling and subtlety.
Norah Jones
Heart
Feeling
Songs
Like
Lot
Subtlety
There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.
Rita Coolidge
Key
Space
Valuable
Everything
Peggy
Peggy Lee
Out
About
Voice
Powerful
Instrument
Lee
Front
Subtlety
Cluttered
Use
Her
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.
Shane Black
Together
Slow
Build
Action
Other
Plot
Threads
Follow
See
Slowly
Like
Narrative
Audience
Coming
Traditions
Very
Gradual
Any
Rewarding
Movie
Subtlety
Literature
Separate
Should
Means
Action Movie
Bringing
In the 1900s, bleaching lotions and skin-lighteners were a female imperative no matter what her colour, often carrying suggestive names like 'Fair-Plex Ointment' and 'Black-No-More.' The tiniest touch of rouge was allowed, but only if applied with great subtlety.
Susie Dent
Great
Matter
Carrying
Touch
Only
Imperative
Colour
Allowed
Like
Names
Female
Were
Tiniest
Often
Subtlety
Rouge
Her
Applied
Suggestive
Perhaps it's an accident of nationality, but the English treasure subtlety and appreciate not having everything spelled out for them, while Americans want everything made apparent.
Tim Pigott-Smith
Made
Accident
Everything
Out
Having
Perhaps
American
Nationality
Want
Subtlety
While
Them
Apparent
English
Treasure
Appreciate
Jacqueline Woodson's books are such a gift to parents and children for their poignant subtlety and lyricism and their willingness to let a reader dwell in the pangs of realization that we sometimes try to protect our children from.
Tracy K. Smith
Gift
Sometimes
Try
Parents
Our
Books
Willingness
Poignant
Protect
Reader
Dwell
Children
Subtlety
Realization
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