Robert Mangold's shaped "Light-Neutral Area," with its almost imperceptible shift of air-brushed color, likewise reveals itself slowly as something subtly beautiful, sharpening your perception while you stare at it.

Now, reflecting rapid technological evolution in the last 15 years - and the rapidity with which the centralized French bureaucracy can respond to such changes - the nighttime illumination of Paris has become more pervasive, striking and subtly beautiful than ever.

Reverting to a semi-qawwalli landscape in the backgrounds of this subtly beautiful piece, Rahman impresses tremendously with his vocal prowess, which only seems to improve throughout his career.

How subtly beautiful they were, those ancient towers built in 1640 by a Mexican bishop who had studied drawings from Spain and had vainly tried to imagine what his ances- tral Salamanca had looked like and the spires of Zaragoza.

These mountains are not the highest or most dramatic in the Klamath Mountains but are subtly beautiful, botanically diverse, and the wildest the region has to offer.

The work is among the least performed of Vaughan Williams's symphonies, but it has gained the reputation of being a subtly beautiful elegy for the dead of World War I and a meditation on the sounds of peace.

Shepard's prose is balanced, steady, and subtly beautiful.

It reminded her of a field of wildflowers, not overpowering, but subtly beautiful, the background music to a spring day.

Yet few neophytes have been smitten by these subtly beautiful plants.