Sentence example with the word 'subtlety'

subtlety

absoluteness, care for truth, culture, evasive reasoning, flimsiness, intricacy, niceness of distinction, punctiliousness, sensibility, subtility, vagueness

Definition n. a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

Last update: September 13, 2015


0

Under an appearance of much vain subtlety the controversy about universals involved issues of the greatest speculative and practical importance: realism represented a spiritual, nominalism an anti-spiritual, view of the world; while realism was evidently favourable, and nominalism unfavourable, to the teaching of the Church on the dogmas of the Trinity and the Eucharist.   [Please select]

0

There are dreams when we reason with correctness and even with subtlety.   [Please select]

0

It is impossible to give an idea of the refinement and subtlety of all her transformations.   [Please select]

0

And in all matters of tact and subtlety Deerehurst was an adept.   [Please select]

0

Life is the very Deuce," said I, with a wry appreciation of the subtlety of language."   [Please select]

0

An immaterial subtlety this, properly out of the range of mamma's concrete observations.   [Please select]

0

This subtlety was past the vision of the donator of the Dabney House.   [Please select]

Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!

Submit
subtleties - subtlety - subtly