These were puzzling effects that were barely perceptible at times.
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His flat Spanish was tinged with a barely perceptible Florida drawl.
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But the movement is barely perceptible, a shift smaller than an atom.
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Detecting such barely perceptible phenomena requires sensitive instruments, usually buried deep underground.
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Today it seems big, but compared to previous generations it's barely perceptible.
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A gold chain, barely perceptible, keeps the defiant bird from flying away.
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But even though they sound scary, they're usually barely perceptible — until they rupture.
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Any trace of Americanness—a barely perceptible gesture—was a potentially fatal liability.
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Most often, the impact of debates on the horse race numbers are barely perceptible.
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Despite the mammoth undertaking, most of the changes have been barely perceptible to viewers.
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Barely perceptible now, this new ecosystem would be wide open for competition and innovation.
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Ms. Merkel did a barely perceptible double take, busying herself by shuffling her notes.
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Her moment of hesitation would have been barely perceptible; her lines would have been cut.
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It's the simplest of motions, barely perceptible, but it synthesizes her pride and her grit.
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But the Fed is likely to move so slowly that the effect will be barely perceptible.
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There's a barely perceptible yet very real sense that a shift is occurring in pro wrestling.
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The latency is barely perceptible, and the array of features with the Apple pencil is impressive.
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And Google search skipped merrily along, at worst experiencing a barely perceptible slowdown in returning results.
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The emotional labor is barely perceptible, save for an eye roll once his back is turned.
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The Atlanta Fed, for instance, currently estimates first-quarter GDP growth at a barely perceptible 0.1 percent.
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Side channel attack Your computer's hardware is always emitting a steady stream of barely-perceptible electrical signals.
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A barely perceptible shake of the head after Trump said, "The state of our union is strong"?
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Had he meant to imply that baby Jesus — swaddled in blankets and barely perceptible — was black, too?
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It's barely perceptible for something like Pushpin, but it would get more noticeable in more complex apps.
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The sequence begins with a barely perceptible take-a-deep-breath feeling of, O.K., we can do this.
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Someone experiencing an orgasm can be barely perceptible in their breathy pleasure, and at other times, wildly theatrical.
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It happened overnight, and it will pass just as quickly, because spring is an elusive and barely perceptible season.
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Changes in lighting (by Masha Tsimring) and in a barely perceptible, nagging soundscape (by Stowe Nelson) become deeply disturbing.
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But these days, art galleries operate on margins that the French-born artist would call "inframince" (infrathin, barely perceptible).
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The blemishes he's identifying are barely perceptible to the naked eye—a small pock, or an inconsistency in the finish.
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When I moved back, they became a mass, a barely perceptible pattern interrupting the wall like a field of static.
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His eyes, full of vigor in interviews just a few years ago, were barely perceptible behind his large-rimmed glasses.
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To the naked eye, a supermoon is barely perceptible, but it was another reason to enjoy the night's astronomical show.
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In 2009, the company held 20 percent of the global smartphone market; that's now shrunk to a barely perceptible 0.1 percent.
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The Canadian sound artist appeared centre stage in a barely perceptible silhouette as blue and red LEDs cut through the fog.
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However, the central tendency is for these annual national rituals to leave only a barely perceptible trace in the public consciousness.
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In some frames of the video, a long, silvery thread is barely perceptible: wire from the precursor of the modern Taser.
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The results range from the overwhelming sensation of passing through a department store fragrance counter, to barely perceptible whiffs of smell.
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"Microcracking," he said, pointing out some barely perceptible brown spots, caused by moisture on the plastic packaging, that were marring the surface.
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At first the wires are barely perceptible, hence the low levels of light, but as they increase in size the LEDs brighten up.
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"That little speck?" she said, pointing at an individual shellfish larvae, smaller than a grain of sand, barely perceptible to the naked eye.
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A barely perceptible frown creased his brows, a fleeting look that seemed to convey, I can't believe I still have to say this.
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Their effortless style was underpinned by a finely-tuned (and barely perceptible) technique that allowed them to put their audience under their spell.
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It might affect all limbs severely, or just one side of the body; or the effects may be slight, making the disability barely perceptible.
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Sewell, a physician, was thirty-four years old, six feet four inches tall, and broad-shouldered, with an earnest smile and barely perceptible dimples.
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The first version lines up with what the police tell Noah and Cole, but the second feels more true, in some barely perceptible way.
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Like any rebalancing process, adjustment is barely perceptible at first, which is why the turning point is often missed, but tends to accelerate over time.
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What's more, I noticed that the extra volume in my chin had accentuated my heretofore barely perceptible chin cleft which I was very excited about.
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Bolt looked a little tight warming up, with possibly a barely perceptible limp, and he was slow out of the blocks, as he often is.
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Little Tong's mixian seems to have a barely perceptible sour tang, but it is the very soft and elusively smooth texture that is most memorable.
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Those small things are often subtle changes both on and off the court; barely perceptible touches of horticulture often overlooked by spectators, but certainly felt.
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In the beginning of a relationship, these characteristics will be barely perceptible, but the unconscious has a finely tuned radar system inaccessible to the conscious mind.
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Letters in Arabic and in English are occasionally offset with a different color, making certain phrases legible from a close distance, but barely perceptible from afar.
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However, if the ruling Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) retains it dominance, the election could result in a barely perceptible shift.
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Hot flashes can vary significantly from woman to woman — some are plagued for years with severe symptoms while some have mild symptoms that are barely perceptible.
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If you can overlook a barely perceptible lag while watching videos on your phone (and high price tag), these might be the best workout headphones for you.
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The selloff in Brent and WTI prices, which was barely perceptible at first, developed a momentum of its own and turned into an avalanche on March 8.
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Experts believe there are likely multiple cyber crime groups digitally pilfering information to illegally play the stock market in a way that is barely perceptible to authorities.
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At Danspace (June 23-July 1), the results, entitled "Slow Dancing/Trio A," will be projected at a speed so reduced that movement is barely perceptible. ♦
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The "Zimmer" connection: One element that a number of readers pointed out was the small, barely perceptible Zimmer sign in the lower right corner of the photo.
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According to an exploration of the issue in our Opinion section, the economic, social and environmental conditions of modern life function as a diffuse, barely perceptible contraceptive.
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The creamy, neutral-colored pigment is infused with the subtlest hint of rose gold — enough to add a barely perceptible shimmer but nothing over-the-top or glittery.
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So when Thiel told this unfamiliar crowd that he was a proud gay man, as well as an American and a Republican, there was a barely perceptible tremor.
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He is a master at barely perceptible shifts in scale and visual language, so that you remain alert to every detail, focusing and refocusing to keep from missing anything.
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In France's $221 million contribution to the subgenre that has brought us "Das Boot" and "The Hunt for Red October," the focus is on barely perceptible signs of trouble.
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In the short term, the sizable jump in loan rates, especially for products like credit cards, and the barely perceptible movement in deposit rates has meant more money for banks.
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In contrast to the first room's barely perceptible piano music, the second room has an almost unnervingly cheerful soundtrack, filled with animal sounds, police whistles, lion roars, and whipping sounds.
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If you see Ellen Allien playing music today, you'll be sure to notice one thing: unlike many of her colleagues, she dances—even if her movements are sometimes only barely perceptible.
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In "Arctic Ocean, Nordkapp" (1991), Sugimoto used a large-format camera and long exposure to eliminate the sea's motion to capture the barely perceptible separation between sea and sky at night.
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Over and over the guitarist's left hand articulated strings with barely perceptible movements, sounding and muting notes almost simultaneously, and playing complete arpeggios with a single stroke of his right hand.
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That was code for "there's really no problem at all" since we know, of course, that nuclear threats, terrorist events, Ebola outbreaks, and government shutdowns have been barely perceptible market disrupters.
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One of the final pieces, P.H. Emerson's landscape from 1895, "Snow Garden", is almost completely filled by its sleety white background, broken only by a hazy tree and a barely perceptible horizon.
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A little bit about my background: Though I am an international student on a student visa, I've spent enough time in the United States to have an accent that is barely perceptible.
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There are no piles of fallen windows, no molding bits of plaster scattered like dirty snow, no kicked in doors, just the barely perceptible shapes of boxes and detritus cloaked in shadows.
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A cat who's happy with you might gently swish its tail from side to side as it walks towards with you—but it's sort of barely perceptible—I wouldn't really call it wagging.
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Currents of chromatic energy that are barely perceptible in "Megha" or "Vishakka" become spectacular in "R-Dhya" (1972), as clouds of color surge inward from the edges of the canvas, like solar flares.
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Edging through space with a tantalizing, barely-perceptible slow modulation, Phoebé Guillemot's work here speaks to a kind of vibrant earthiness—evocative of dirt, moss, and rocks tumbling over one another at their own pace.
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Watching her repeat the same lines with barely perceptible alterations to her tone and mannerisms is impressive, and it highlights the strength of many of the actors playing hosts on Westworld, not to mention the writing.
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Yet, whether shooting in jaundiced interiors or verdant, autumnal exteriors, Bakatakis ensures that The Lobster is never less than beautiful to behold as he employs a series of painterly tableaux intensified by patient, barely perceptible zoom-ins.
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But let it be reported that without a sales tax the hospital facilities of Massachusetts will deteriorate and cause a barely perceptible increase in preventable deaths–not many will drop a tear or reach for their checkbooks.
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In repose, the expression on its face is serene enough to be unsettling—perhaps because of its deep-set black eyes; its thin, pursed lips, ever so slightly upturned at the corners; and its gentle, barely perceptible brow.
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Sometimes, women wear barely-perceptible fat suits to subtly emphasize their loser status, like Emma Thompson's cheated-on wife Karen in Love, Actually, an unhappy stay-at-home-mom who discovers her husband's affair with his younger, thinner secretary.
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From there he explains how barely-perceptible combinations of harmonic overtones affect the timbre of individual sounds, illustrating that what we think of as a single note is in fact made up of a whole range of sonic frequencies.
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As the speaker extols him for reinventing the very nature of storytelling, the camera zooms in on Joan, portrayed by Glenn Close, her eyes registering a rapid succession of barely perceptible emotions: victory, awe, disbelief, pride, bitterness, even rage.
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In the Music of Time we watch through the glass of a tank; one after another various specimens swim towards us; we see them clearly, then with a barely perceptible flick of fin or tail, they are off into the murk.
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It's there in the way a barely perceptible hesitation at the top of a melody—the rolling piano runs of "Hymn," the first song on 19973's Everything Is Wrong, for example—catches the corner of your ear, then holds.
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Op-Ed Contributor In the 1944 noir film "Gaslight," a villain hides his crimes by convincing his innocent wife she's insane, feeding her barely perceptible lies and altering small aspects of her environment until she doubts her own instincts and observations.
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In the 'Music of Time' we watch through the glass of a tank; one after another various specimens swim towards us; we see them clearly, then with a barely perceptible flick of fin or tail, they are off into the murk.
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The music's languid warmth presents her dilemma with clarity: this character is stuck, in Southern California and in her own life, as claustrophobia sets in and her songwriting resorts to smaller and smaller gestures, barely perceptible flinches, to convey quiet desperation.
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For all but the best-trained eyes and ears, compression systems like MP3 and JPG are barely perceptible most of the time—they look and sound great, but manage to take up a fraction of the space that their loss-less siblings demand.
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Little by little, Alice starts to notice, or perhaps merely imagine, barely perceptible changes in her son's demeanor — changes that parallel subtle shifts in her work colleagues' personalities, most notably that of her Little Joe co-creator — and secret admirer — Chris (Ben Whishaw).
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Asunción, remote enough today, is immeasurably more so when Zama arrives by boat from Buenos-Ayres (as it was then spelled), hundreds of miles away, and in its flat landscape of "barely perceptible hills" Don Diego's "temporary, stopgap appointment" will slide toward eternity.
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"There's a really weird one of Robert De Niro that I really like that's about as abstract as you could possibly go," in which the actor's nose, facial mole and furrowed brow are barely perceptible through heavily abstracted glass, Mr. Davison said.
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His headquarters are on the 25th floor of a Madison Avenue building with views of Midtown Manhattan, and after three decades in the city, the French accent that launched his jewelry career is now barely perceptible in his even-toned American English.
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It's weird, at first, but after a few minutes of violently jerking your head around to feel out how extreme the effect can be, you settle into a more natural and stationary mode of watching and hearing something, where the head-tracking is barely perceptible.
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Baughman estimated the overall gain in U.S. GDP in the deal's 15th year would be barely perceptible at about 0.01 percent and could be negative if the ITC fails to give enough weight to new provisions on digital trade, increased customs efficiency and services.
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The MP3 file format does exactly this—but it tosses to one side the barely perceptible frequency components to save space, as well as some of the ones at the upper end of our hearing range because we find it difficult to distinguish between them anyway.
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But the HDR mode also causes a barely perceptible flicker when a movie or TV show jumps from shot to shot and the lighting changes (for my tests I watched House of Cards on Netflix, which tends to have a lot of dark scenes, both technically and narratively).
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The barely-perceptible reduction in the fire-hose flow of tax dollars to Planned Parenthood was more than made up by private donations from the organization's well-heeled friends: In 2202-2628, Planned Parenthood's private donors gave $28500 million dollars, an increase of $6900 million from 2628-28503.
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The girl gave a barely perceptible nod, and sat very still as Betty undid the buttons on the white shirt, and, with a gentle yank, pulled the shirt open to expose a warm expanse of chest and stomach, with a white bra like a bridge between the two sides.
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Even then, the analysis showed that the proposed Trump tax cuts would lift after-tax income for the top 1 percent of taxpayers by at least 11.5 percent (or an average annual tax cut of $175,000), compared with a barely perceptible 1.3 percent for taxpayers in the middle (or $760 in average tax savings).
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But the skits reveal her musical strategy, in both sequencing and composition, which is to place the full-fledged guitar songs in an environment of white noise, seeping static, electronic twitches and hums, and barely perceptible shimmers and echoes, stuck in a mechanical vacuum, or maybe just the outside world, where background noise always lingers.
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He strode ahead of me toward the car, with that barely perceptible hint of ancient injury somewhere in his bearing, and I thought of the boy inside dressed up as Uncle Sam and felt suddenly ashamed: Votes, even ones incomprehensible to us, rise out of real lives, out of the distance between what we have and what we hope for ourselves.
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A lot of Wayne's mixtape material that falls on either side of Tha Carter III does not sound that good: He had a tendency to set Auto-Tune in the wrong key, so he sounded particularly off the wall (contrast this to, say, 2017 Future, whose use of Auto-Tune is barely perceptible other than as, like, a cyborg enhancement of his voice).
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