Which preposition to use with subtle
And the face the same: the same lips, sensitive, ready to quiver; the same innocent, candid brow; the look of a common race, which is more subtle than mere resemblance.
To make friends with the upright, with the trustworthy, with the experienced, is to gain benefit; to make friends with the subtly perverse, with the artfully pliant, with the subtle in speech, is detrimental.
This was very subtle of the Boy.
There is no richer piece of descriptive writing in his works than that of Newstead (in c. xiii.); nor is there any analysis of female character so subtle as that of the Lady Adeline.
May Deland, whose ripple of hip and droop of eyelid are too subtle for censorship, walks through her hula-hula dance, much of her abandon abandoned.
Something subtle about her being transfigured her.
Now Nicholas was not strong at spinning sham reasons nor subtle at weaving false conscience; but, to his mind, the very fact that the system had so degraded a man that he could laugh and dance and sing, while other men took his wages, his wife, and homestead, was the crowning argument against the system.
His essays attracted at first very little attention; they were too fine and too subtle to awaken popular enthusiasm.
And Antonelli was the very impersonation of unscrupulous and malignant intellect, subtle with all the Italian subtlety, and unscrupulous as any of the brigands from the community in which he had his origin.
And that falling drapery of his cap is, in its few lines, faultless, and subtle beyond description.
It was frail and subtle like the invisible net of the enchanterthat word he had passed to Jim Silent, to see that nothing came up the valley and to appear in the ranch house at sunrise.
Her kindling of his flame of adventure had been very subtle until now.