Betekenis van:
subtlety

subtlety
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • sluwe berekening
  • the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze
"you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew"

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subtlety
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • het opheffen/veredelen
  • a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

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Voorbeeldzinnen

  1. Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade,—all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.
  2. Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ.