Curious, febrile, subtle little creature, oh, infinitely subtle, subtle in everything, in her sensations subtle; I suppose that was her charm, subtleness.

He said it had been the "labour of many years of a singularly subtle, patient, and comprehensive mind.

In their descriptions, exquisitely subtle some of them, the activity appears as the gestalt-qualität [Footnote 1: Their existence forms a curious commentary on Professor Munsterberg's dogma that will-attitudes are not describable.

And strangely enough, a withdrawing from all commerce with virtue and vice is, it would seem, a licentiousness more curiously subtle and penetrating than any other; and the licentiousness of the verse is equal to that of the emotion; every natural instinct of the language is violated, and the simple music native in French metre is replaced by falsetto notes sharp and intense.

This was accomplished by artistic means of the simplest, yet irresistibly subtle in their appeal.

"And a mighty subtle sort," agreed Trendon.

He readand read well, only with too much consciousness, and with needlessly subtle distinctionssome of Lermontof's poems (Pushkin had not then succeeded in getting back into fashion).

What an extraordinary woman she wasand how prettyhow subtle; how perfect their life might be together....

It was not without clearness and strength; but such a position naturally often leads to what seem over-subtle modes of argument, seemingly over-subtle because deeper and more original than the common ones; and he seemed sometimes to want sobriety in his use of dialectic weapons, which he wielded with such force and effect.

It is carefully invented, and whimsically subtle; and the sentiment is sometimes true, but mostly affected.

Wordsworth was not only a poet, he was also a seer, a mystic and a practical psychologist with an amazingly subtle mind, and an unusual capacity for feeling; he lived a life of excitement and passion, and he preached a doctrine of magnificence and glory.

There is in this tragic story a wonderfully subtle revelation of a young nature, which is morbid, ambitious, quick of intellect, and strong of will, and which has no hand firm enough to serve as guide at the critical period of her life.

The Epistle of Privy Counsel (still in MS.) is the most advanced in mystical teaching: the writer in it tries to explain very intimately the nature of "onehede with God," and to give instruction in simple and yet deeply subtle terms as to the means for attaining this.

This head stands out in grand relief, being in a far purer state of preservation than the rest, and we are able to appreciate to some extent the extraordinarily subtle modelling of the features, the clear-cut contours, the intensity of expression.

Johnson's aesthetic judgments are almost invariably subtle, or solid, or bold; they have always some good quality to recommend themexcept one: they are never right.