To many minds, however, his subtlety not seldom appeared to pass into sophistry; and his attitude to schools of thought widely differing from his own was sometimes harsh and unsympathetic.
He was bold in the exposition of his principles, and had both strength and subtlety of intellect.
He possessed a lively wit, a brilliant imagination, greatsubtlety of reasoning and an insinuating eloquence.
They employ their utmost subtlety to oppose the truth; but their subtlety is apparent unto GOD, who is able to frustrate their designs; although their subtlety were so great, that the mountains might be moved thereby.
Because of the subtlety of their bodies, and their being void of all colour.
But if ye be patient, and fear God, their subtlety shall not hurt you at all; for GOD comprehendeth whatever they do.
That peculiar subtlety of mind, which rendered the Alexandrians the great thinkers of the then world, had with Christians, as well as Heathens, the effect of alluring them away from practice to speculation.
It must also be remembered for a proper understanding of his venture, that Perkin Warbeck was strongly supported and advised with great knowledge and subtlety by some very resolute and influential persons.
This was one Francis Pucci, a Florentine, possessed of all the address andsubtlety of his race.
In very fact Elizabeth appears all her life since 1544 to have been playing with great thoughtfulness and yet dexterity a diplomatic game--acting with histrionic subtlety a part which she had chosen advisedly.
How simple and yet how subtle is this statecraft; simplicity of aim, with subtlety in the choice of means: this is the secret of his success.
To the irresistible power of the general he could only oppose the subtlety of a student.
He had enemies to cope with and subdue, and who required to be encountered with as much subtlety and resolution as Penelope's suitors.
Public affairs govern our thinking and doing with subtlety and persistence.
His mind is lucid and flexible, and he has the faculty of taking advice quickly, of stating something he has borrowed with more ease and subtlety than the specialist from whom he got it.
They will be found to justify, in subtlety of chiselling, the title I gave to Giovanni, of the Canova of the thirteenth century.
But though effeminate and feeble, it inherits all the subtlety of its art, all the cunning of its mystery; and it is converted to a more spiritual religion.
Vasari says, "Whoever shall desire to see how far art can imitate nature, may do so to perfection in this head, wherein every peculiarity that could be depicted by the utmost subtlety of the pencil has been faithfully reproduced.
Never, perhaps, has Raphael given such delicacy and subtlety to his carnations; never did he create a fuller life; we can see the blood circulate; we can feel the beating pulse.
Nothing can exceed the delicacy and subtlety with which the flesh and dress are painted, the tones being harmonized and thrown into keeping by a most varied use and application of glazings and scumblings.
What subtlety there is in the concentration of light on Ariadne, which alone gives a focus to the composition.
The whole period is remarkable for its antagonisms and cross-purposes, and these are brought to view by Hassall with much subtlety of insight and felicity of observation.
Certain it is that in his wandering among strangers he had come to be a mighty handy, wide-awake fellow, with much that was good in him, inasmuch as with all his subtlety he had kept his true Nuremberger's heart.
The Arabs alone kindled for a while the lamp of learning, but even their subtlety and genius did not suffice to keep its flame alive.
You've lied to me," he said, turning and speaking with the bluntness of a boy without subtlety of speech.
The women dealt with the question more openly, scorning feminine subtlety at this pass as inadequate ammunition.
And yet there was no attempt at subtletyon her part; on the contrary, no one could have an appearance of greater candor than the lady whose children Mary Carmichael had come West to teach.
Acting on this belief, with immense subtlety Bumpus uttered a cry of feigned terror, and fled, followed by the panting Corrie, who uttered a scream of real terror at what he supposed must be the veritable ghost of the place.
He has the craft of a conjurer and the subtlety of a serpent.
With a little patience and subtlety on your part he'll soon come and feed out of your hand.
She went over the interview in her mind, imagining him crushed and subdued by her superior subtlety and finesse.
She heaped mild ridicule upon her husband and his love-affairs, exchanged light sallies with her guests, or parried with resourceful subtlety the constant appeals of the man she loved.
The brilliance of the language, the subtlety of the situation, seemed like some evil trail drawn across that one horrible climax.
If by this Goncourt meant making the invisible visible, rendering in prose of crepuscular subtlety moods recondite, then it was not an exaggerated compliment.
The eulogy seems to be rather overstrained, unless we measure subtlety of thought rather by the complexity and elaboration of its embodiment than by the keenness of the thought itself.
The book may indeed justify, to some extent, one of the ordinary criticisms upon Balzac, that he showed a special subtlety in describing the sufferings of women.
