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Certainly, the Major Gontard had a bold way with him. But that it had its attractions, not to say its compellings, Madame Jolicoeur could not honestly deny. On the part of the Notary whose disposition, fostered by his profession, was toward subtlety rather than toward boldness Madame Jolicoeur's declaration of cat rights was received with no such belligerent blare of trumpets and beat of drums.
"I persuaded my mother to come with me, although without avowing my object. I merely expatiated upon the beauty and salubrity of Nevis, and the elegant comforts of Bath House. Women often demand much subtlety in the handling.
It is one of his great parts, made up of pride, stealth, anger, minute and varied picturesqueness, and a diabolical subtlety. Whether he paws at his cloak, or clutches upon the handle of his stick, or splutters hatred, or cringes before his prey, or shakes with lean and wrinkled laughter, he is always the great part and the great actor. See him as Mephistopheles in "Faust."
“That’s absurd: you knew all along I was going away,” she returned, with countenance as expressionless as feminine subtlety could make it. “W’y don’t you let somebody else do that? Can’t you come out yere a w’ile?” “No, I prefer doing it myself; and I don’t care to go out.” What could he do? what could he say?
But I will say, as you shall see, that he matched their subtlety with equal subtlety; and from what I saw of him I have little doubt but what he would have confounded many a disputant in the synagogues. "But half a legion of Romans," he regretted to me, "and I would take Jerusalem by the throat . . . and then be recalled for my pains, I suppose."
Dreiser to exercise his virtue of patient industry and to build up a solid monument of fact which, though often dull enough, nevertheless continues generally to convince, at least in respect to Cowperwood's business enterprises. The American financier, after all, has rarely had much subtlety in his make-up.
Barton's thoughts did not travel, but they were clear and precise thoughts, and with much subtlety and insinuative force she applied herself to the task of overcoming her daughter's weakness and strengthening her in this overthrow of vanity and self-love. But to the tennis-party they must go.
Now that he was going back to her, he could afford a lesser scrutiny. It was his mother who lingered before the picture, saying: "The face and the figure of the girl are exquisite." Jon heard her uneasily. Did she understand? But he felt once more that he was no match for her in self-control and subtlety.
To seek relief from the necessity of recognising-at least in the sense of similitude, according to the subtlety of Bentivoglio the freedom of the provinces, simply by running the pen through the most important line of a most important document, was diplomacy in its dotage.
"The subtlety of nature," Bacon says, "transcends in many ways the subtlety of the intellect and senses of man."
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