Cardinal Mazarin, a subtle and intriguing Italian, while he pursued the policy of Richelieu, had not his genius or success.
But more subtle and artful agents were required, especially since violence had failed.
His influence was more subtle and more dangerous, for he led astray people of generous impulses and enthusiastic dispositions, with but little intelligence or experience.
Detectives have failed, though I think we made a mistake in employing English ones, they hardly seem tactful or subtle enough for the East.
It had vanished, or his vision was not now clear enough to discern its subtle texture.
The common mass of men and women are absorbed into or controlled by its subtle power.
For the purpose of the present consideration, it is enough to say that over and above the ordinary physical sense plane there is another and moresubtle plane, known as the Astral Plane.
While the explanation of these facts is not known to the average person, nevertheless nearly everyone recognizes the subtle effect of color and avoids certain colors, while seeking certain others.
And the subtle temper of the Florentine intellect must have attracted his own keen spirit by a secret sympathy.
James caught her half-shuttered smoldering glance and divined her a woman subtle and complex, capable of playing the world-old game of the sexes with unusual dexterity.
The subtleincense of luxury that she diffused banished responsibility.
Behind those eyelids a little weary all thesubtle hidden meaning of the ages shadows.
Through the subtle influence of psychic forces, it stirred up a passion of hate for Spain in the hearts of the people of the United States, and it fostered the awful spirit of strife, and at the right moment it let loose the dogs of war.
A subtle harmony is felt between the history of the hermit and the character of this building raised in his honour.
There is no subtle joy of despair and hope, of decay and growth, connected with the passing of the seasons.
Something more subtle than the silent alchemy of time had wrought the change, and of this Mrs. Hampton was thinking now.
And in what a subtle manner judgment will be pronounced, 'Poor girl; isn't it too bad?
That was only prophetic of further steps towards the banishment of a 226:3 world-wide slavery, found on higher planes of existence and under more subtle and depraving forms.
There is a very strange, but not wholly unaccountable tendency in men of subtle minds, to venture near enough to disclosures to awaken the suspicions, without satisfying the curiosity of others.
After heating in the microwave, you'll find that it loses much of its sharpness and leaves behind a subtle spicy flavor.
The ice cream cone flavor is so subtle that no one has yet been able to identify it without being told.
Her eyes, too, were shrewder and less evasive, though subtle enough.
There are compromises of the spirit too elusive and subtle to be traced in all their involute windings.
He decided after due thought that a roundabout way would best serve Cowperwood's ends, a line of subtle suggestion from some seemingly disinterested party.
Here was not only a loophole for himself in connection with his own subtle side-plays, but also, if the quadrumvirate desired, an excuse for deserting the troublesome fortunes of Hull & Stackpole.
She was a woman not unlike Aileen in type, a little older, not so good-looking, and of a harder, more subtle commercial type of mind.
By this time, however, the newspapers had become as subtle and powerful as the politicians themselves.
He had planned what to say, how to say it, purposing to break down her stubborn will with the passionate strength of his love for her, with mad strong words, with subtle arguments.
My lord, to step out of these dreary dumps,[4056] How comes it that the subtle Queen of Goths Is of a sudden thus advanced in Rome?
As subtle as Arachne's broken woof, Admits no orifice for a point to enter Keightley.
She was happier in these subtle signs that revealed inward relation than she would have been just now in an outspokenness that demanded present, definite answer and acceptance of outward tie.
You would expect to see his face light up to enjoyment not because of the prospect of ordinary pleasure, but because of affairs of exceeding gravity which called for treatment by a strong hand and subtle brain.
Progress has necessarily become greater because it is found that women bring to the aid of more subtle intellectual capabilities faculties of imagination that are the necessary adjuncts of improvement.
He was searched most narrowly and carefully, so I've come to the conclusion that he carried some of his subtle poison in his mouth--the hollow tooth dodge, no doubt.
Had any one tracked him to this place--got rid of him by some subtle means?
These, people probably tracked your cousin to this place, contrived to administer a subtleand deadly poison to him last night, and entered his room after the time at which they knew it would take effect.
The Black Darwishes do not employ the knife," answered Abu Tabah; "they employ strange and more subtle weapons.
But it is unwise to dogmatise in the realms of social and racial psychology; we have not yet discovered the means for analysing with precision the subtle elements of the human soul.
But the researches of the sages are not confined to such subtleor elegant studies.
She described a subtle and life-giving medium called Lai, which I suspect to be identical with the ethereal oxygen of Dr.
Which particular one will be "appropriate" will depend on all sorts of subtle factors, hence the need of the control of the connection aeries by a purpose and the diminishing of the element of automaticity.
Scarcity of brains which work primarily in terms of connections between subtle elements, relationships, etc.
It seems that the more complex and the more subtle the connections involved, the less is the amount and the surety of the transfer.
This tendency is so broad and so complex, the machinery governing it is so delicate, that it produces responses that vary tremendously with subtle changes in the individual, and with slight modifications of the situation.
The marvelous power of the genius, the inventor, the reasoner in all fields, is merely an exhibition of the laws of association working with extremely subtle elements.
It is evident that the old idea of a large transfer in some subtle and unexplained way of special improvements to a general faculty is false.
As to the nature of these laws, the subtle workings of which we see manifest in every phase of society, I cannot even so much as speak.
Intelligence enters the brain by the organs of the senses, and through the nervous system its subtle influence radiates to every part of the body.
Opinion," repeated the musician with a subtle smile, drawing a few notes on the table.
