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subtleties

NOUN
a fine distinction
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NOUN
delicacy
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The campaign carries the theme “Music unleashes us,” with subthemes that declare how music also unleashes positive things like “independence,” “mayhem,” “unity,” “fun,” “style” and even, in the case of Elvis Presley, “hips.”

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2013

The festival’s subthemes include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights; disability rights; and crises and migration.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2013

Richard Klein, the museum’s exhibitions director, said the artworks fall within a theme of objects that depict a diverse American experience, with the United States economy and manufacturing, and the nation’s history, as subthemes.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2012

Branching off from the story of the trial and the theme of American class struggle are scores of substories and subthemes, most of which have branches of their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

In all, Big Bang is arranged according to eight themes, from "archaism" to "war," plus some 40 subthemes.

From Time Magazine Archive



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