I must commend Your Highness for the subtlety of your scheme.

He was looking, you see, for one minute human error... in a scheme of almost superhuman subtlety.

Listen closely Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is he joking? advice.

Most of the characters on the US side of the border are portrayed with sympathy and depth. The main protagonist s step by step descent into the drug underworld unfolds with such subtlety that each individual decision he makes along the way seems almost reasonable.

Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshippers, and all of his priests. Let none be absent for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, intending that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshippers, and all of his priests. Let none be absent for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, intending that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

Rather, through a combination of ingenious software and massive parallel computing power, they had produced a silicon based entity capable of such finesse and subtlety, that international chess grandmasters worldwide (including me) were simply amazed. Since 1997, the computers have only gotten better, to the point where computer programmers no longer find beating humans a great challenge.