The mother, Aurora Greenway, is a more subtly drawn character, definitely not a toon.

The lines are always subtly drawn.

They also do not match the show's more subtly drawn frictions and alliances.

The storytelling was ingenious; the characters were subtly drawn and engrossing.

The perfectly rendered frivolity of university life, with its petty feuds and callow romances, is bolstered by a subtly drawn undercurrent of sectarian violence.

These subtly drawn grids are a continuing motif in her work and are visual mesmerizers intended to provoke constant and dizzying shifts in scale and perspective.

It is the filmmaker's subtly drawn characters that keep "Judy Berlin" from becoming mired in suburban-angst cliches.

That isn't to say that his first book wouldn't have benefited from more subtly drawn characters, or the deletion of groaners like "Houston we have a problem."

She was drawn subtly, slowly, ever closer against him.

Mr. Goldhuber and Ms. Latsky appear to be dear friends subtly drawn to each other physically.