In the third song, the cries of woe were more affecting for being subtly shaped; the longest cry swelled to a forte, then resignedly sighed into silence.

Short, crisp hair, iron grey and still thick, lay close as a helmet on a head magnificently and subtly shaped, and was cut squarely across a great fleshless forehead.

Though its images remained clear and sharp, they had been subtly shaped and shadowed by all the singers who had come before Sings Truly.

The pattern of domestic violence begins in the early years of family life where attitudes about superiority and inferiority are subtly and powerfully shaped.

This approach has subtly shaped his more recent dances, infusing the instantly recognizable Hawkins vocabulary with an increased athleticism and a more outer-directed energy.

The executioner raised one eyebrow, which seemed to have been subtly shaped by some robot barber's skill.

Mr. Badea set the tone in the opera's prelude, with string lines that sounded subtly shaped, even through the Met's enormous, shrill speakers.

It was a marvelous little thing, subtly shaped from flexmetal by some ancient hand.

But another one was Manet's own earlier work, which, Mr. Elderfield contends, was subtly shaped by his awareness of French imperial predations.

"Or that each requirement is subtly shaped to meet his preparation," retorted Ming-shu darkly.