He subtly evokes her poetic style: "Sappho's art is to dovetail, smooth and rub down, to avoid the over-emphatic."

Both landscapes are often exploited by politicians as backdrops, to subtly evoke an illusion of values.

Ken Topping, the artistic director of this junior company, subtly evokes strong emotions in the ways two dancers curve around each other or move in parallel.

Ms. Tajiri succeeds by subtly evoking her viewers' awareness of familiar Hitchcock films.

There is a touch of elegance in the chrome strip on the doors, which subtly evokes Chrysler's "machine" design idiom.

He wanted to get the point across of a nation born again, subtly evoking Lincoln at Gettysburg, and the new man drove it home.

The play is presented on a raised platform on a bare stage (at the Harold Prince Theater in the Annenberg Center), with six actors subtly evoking the landscape, both human and territorial.

Ms. Wichern and Mr. Wolfson subtly evoke the confining pressure of tradition in 19th-century family life.

White House architect Lorenzo Winslow designed a new chimney breast and mantel that, though intended to appear traditional, subtly evokes Art Moderne in its ribbed curved sides.