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SUBTLE

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subtle adjectiv

1. fin, subţire, delicat.

2. subtil, spiritual, ingenios.

3. rafinat;

subtle delight plăcere rafinată.

4. iscusit;

subtle device dispozitiv ingenios;

subtle fingers degete iscusite.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

She was too subtle not to follow the trend of my silence.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

There is a further point, however, which is subtler and of greater interest.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But there was a higher and subtler chemistry of Nature, which, working with great forces over long epochs, might well produce results which were impossible for us.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is subtle and watchful.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

When one of these worlds transits, or passes in front of its host star as seen from Earth, some of the star's light travels through the exoplanet's atmosphere, where it is changed in subtle, but measurable, ways.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)

Subtle enough and horrible enough.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If the Count escape us this time—and he is strong and subtle and cunning—he may choose to sleep him for a century, and then in time our dear one—he took my hand—would come to him to keep him company, and would be as those others that you, Jonathan, saw.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Indeed, they were more and more brightly exhibited as the hours went on; for I thought even then, and I have no doubt now, that the consciousness of success in his determination to please, inspired him with a new delicacy of perception, and made it, subtle as it was, more easy to him.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

We had all listened with the deepest interest to this sketch of the night’s doings, which Holmes had deduced from signs so subtle and minute that, even when he had pointed them out to us, we could scarcely follow him in his reasoning.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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