But there are subtler forms of hypocrisy, which Christ does not denounce, probably because they have sprung since out of the corruption of a subtler creed.
That same sun which warmed the water and liberated the vapour, exerts a subtler power on the nutriment of the tree.
They were now instinct with his mother's power, permeated with some part of her subtler material self, and he was minded to preserve them.
Victor, reaching for Leo's hand, tingled with something not scientific, a current of something subtler than electricity which came from her palm.
In short, mere family pride flatters every member of the family; it produced the arrogance of the Germans, and it is capable of producing a much subtler kind of arrogance in the Jews.
The Jew has far more moral imagination and sympathy with the subtler ideals of the soul.
The unconscious philosophy of her tricks and manners has in it more of the subtler vein of the satire aimed at in the book, than even the voices of society which the tale begins and ends with.
Science can dissect the human body, but it can do little towards an explanation of the subtler meanings of life and mind.
It endeavors to show why he acts, and it unfolds the subtler elements of his character.
Daly as an older and subtler master of devout merriment, dipping in his own inkwell rather than in any imported bottles.
But packing for storage instead of for moving impliessubtler and more painful anguishes.
He conceded the propriety of the only stipulation, which was conveyed to him by the Parson with all the delicacy that became a man professionally habituated to deal with the subtler susceptibilities of mankind--viz.
Suggesting a fact issubtler than actually representing a fact.
There is another much subtler point, open to argument.
For portraiture, single figure representation and character delineation gentle effects capable of subtlergradations are more desirable.
I believe that the influence was subtler and more spiritual, and one that lasted all his life.
And for thy subtler sense subtler refrains dread Mother, Preludes of intellect tallying these and thee, mind-formulas fitted for thee, real and sane and large as these and thee, Thou!
Just as everyone holds his breath when the heroine is in danger, as he helps Babe Ruth swing his bat, so in subtler form the reader enters into the news.
All the subtler and deeper truths are in the present organization of industry very unreliable truths.
But Miss Quincey never saw it; for a subtler web than that of Rhoda's spinning was woven about her eyes.
Inferior assuredly to David when he attempted the grand style, he had a truer feeling for the subtler qualities of style itself.
No one would be so foolish as to deny, however, that audiences do vary materially in their capacity to take in the subtlerpoints of a lecture "fired" at them from the platform.
If not precisely that they were too good, I doubtless thought that, whilst good in every literary sense, they happened to be couched in a vein only to be appreciated by the subtler minds of the minority.
In the subtler qualities of intrigue I was his master; and he, never probably having observed himself as a hero of romance, had to yield to my proficiency in the art of producing a desired impression.
What the Tuscans have done is to perfect the inner and subtler proportions, to restrain and accentuate, to phrase (in musical language) every detail of execution.
The subtler and more complicated conception of life is best expressed by Verrocchio, the other master spirit of this generation, who displays in his paintings and statues the joy he takes in pure beauty, but always adds some other element.
The inner meaning of what they have wrought, its message, its morality, its subtler spirit, the artists do not care ever to talk over, even with each other.
Did any novelist of the eighteenth century reveal a subtler insight into the hidden recesses of feminine psychology than Marivaux?
The charm was deeper still, and resulted from something far subtler than the attraction of her girlish freshness--from something vivid yet soft in her look, which seemed to burn always with a tempered warmth.
For the subtler symphonic music--that music of the spheres to which the ears of poets alone are attuned--Byron had an imperfect sympathy.
There was small need to go on staring and gaping for any length of time to discover that we were the victims of an out-and-away shrewder, cleverer, subtler stratagem than we had practised upon those dark-skins.
His apparent earnestness must have deceived a subtler eye than ever Nakier could have brought to bear on him.
But the scope of his message, with its overtones and subtler implications, is limited by the rate of vibration to which we are attuned.
As style is the expression of the man, so conversely a knowledge of the man is an entrance into the wider and subtler implications of his style.
Does not this light from below tend to wipe out the subtler lineaments in the lower part of the face, and especially around the jaws?
It forms the basis of such novels as "Chandalah" and "At the Edge of the Sea," but it recurs in subtler form in works of much later date.
Simple and trenchant outlines of character are yet to be supplanted by features of subtler suggestion and infinite interfusion.
The doing of duty in this spirit simply resolves itself into a subtler and more pervasive form of selfishness.
In truth, by that earlier and subtler transformation Christianity had passed permanently beyond the stage in which it had been preponderantly a moral and spiritual enthusiasm, with its centre and authority in the person of Jesus.
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