His eyes dwelt upon her with a species of mocking homage that yet in a fashion subtly flattered.
He had watched him saunter up the stairs with his hands thrust into his pockets and an air of limitless leisure pervading his every movement, and he had been exasperated by the man's deliberation and subtly comforted at the same time.
In some degree they are present, in every case, at some point of sexual development; their threads are subtly woven in and out of the whole psychological process of sex.
We may trace the same influence subtly lurking even in the most would-be scientific statements of anthropologists and physicians today.
And the air seems subtly changing, and the light perhaps growing a little harder.
No ferocious demands for money fall upon my ears; only an occasional suggestion is subtly conveyed to me that even the poor must live and that I am immensely rich.
And during these dark vigils, he learned to know her, her body against his, they drew nearer and nearer together, the kisses came more subtly close and fitting.
He let his fingers subtly seek out her cheek and neck.
The trouble was that he wanted to teach and be listened to; wherefore he was subtly more at home among the ignorant and in such streets as he was now traversing than with educated men.
I rejoice that New York has found such a subtly appreciative and faithful chronicler as you show yourself to be in "A Hazard of New Fortunes.
He evidently wanted to portray a Plutarchian man of heroic size, and he therefore had to exclude all that was subtly individualizing.
He will be subtly conscious of what is snow and what ice, of how and why rocks emerge from the snowy envelope.
But Nature has fashioned it subtly and endowed its faces and ridges with curves most delicate and refined.
For even the love he did not put into words seemed not only implicit in every line of each "enclosure," but more subtly delicious being veiled.
Only a little frailer, a little whiter haired, subtly fined down by the years.
Trust imagination to keep the fear alive, to work without ceasing, by day and by night, subtly to destroy the fabric of our lives.
Her love of autumn and of sunsetting had been no sad reflective sentiment, but something more than common--eager, subtly exhilarated, joyous.
Nicolovius had a smile for that, though his expression seemed subtly to shift.
So the years passed, while the Queeds watched with amazement the subtly expanding verification of the adage that blood will tell.
At the subtly hostile look in her eyes, his expression became, for the first time, a little interested.
The art quality in a book is as difficult to analyse as the feeling for it; not because it is intangible or indefinite, but because it is so subtly diffused.
Ben, like Gracie, had fined down; yet he struck a discordant note when set in the midst of the subtly restrained, costly elements which composed the general effect of the room.
Those eyes were subtly expressive, the curve of the lip showed a row of good teeth, slightly pointed.
The subjective ghost story is difficult to write, as the effect must be subtly managed yet inescapably impressive.
Kate asked innumerable questions about the other girls, particularly Mariette, whom she remembered as a Germanic blonde of warm coloring, the coldest eyes, the most subtlyrigid and ruthless mouth she had ever seen.
Her work appealed subtly but clearly to the growing rebellion of the German women; she was too much of an artist to write frank propaganda and the critics were long waking up to the object of her work.
He was a fine figure of a man with clean-cut features and a look of kindliness so subtly professional as to keep it from being indiscriminatingly benevolent; a good-natured man rather than a strong.
They were looking at her, piercing through her garments until she felt herself subtly divested of all concealments.
I agree with Hendrik," said Ethel, more subtly personal than Grace thought necessary; so she pushed back her chair and took up her gloves.
She was made subtly conscious that he was dying to announce her name to the world at the top of his enthusiastic voice.
The special charm of the great poets is so subtly apprehended by him, and so exquisitely expressed, that it will be a source of much surprise if many of his concise verdicts do not become the household words of students of literature.
Their characters may be direct and plain as those of Lear and Kent, or they may be as subtly shaded as that of Hamlet or of the melancholy soliloquist of Arden.
Somewhere in his head, taut like an overstrung ligament or the string of a great violin, something sinister droned and hummed and subtly threatened.
Diane felt a sudden tie of sympathy link her subtly to this mysterious nomad of the summer road.
Carl, though he had primarily intended the singular rig for the eyes of Tregar, had subtly invited the remark.
That would hurt Diane, for everything in this beautiful old Spanish room linked her subtly to her mother.
It was a great room of homely comfort, subtly akin to the forest beyond its walls.
Sometimes the music laughed and wooed when eyes were kind; sometimes when eyes were over-daring it was subtly impudent and eloquent.
His fear of the grim young guard behind him had been subtly aggravated by the desolation of his destined jail.
And as the girl moved proudly away, the strain of fantastic music which followed her was subtly deferential.
A century back it seemed to this girl in whom the restless gypsy tide was subtly fretting, she had left Johnny and the van at Jacksonville to come into this sensuous, tropical world of color, fashionable life and lazy days.
Dacent Smith had talked much with him, drawing him out, subtly examining him as to his aspirations and his powers.
My reports tell me that at least eight forts on the South Coast are being subtly tampered with in one way or another.
Always you want that of conversation--subtly differentiated.
Then one becomes aware that this frame of mind, produced by actual contact with Salem, is subtly akin to the mood from which so many of Hawthorne's visions were projected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subtly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
