All 4 Uses of
subtle
in
The Age of Innocence
- He had dawdled over his cigar because he was at heart a dilettante, and thinking over a pleasure to come often gave him a subtler satisfaction than its realisation.†
Chpt 1
- What if, for some one of the subtler reasons that would tell with both of them, they should tire of each other, misunderstand or irritate each other?†
Chpt 6 *
- He had been before in drawing-rooms hung with red damask, with pictures "of the Italian school"; what struck him was the way in which Medora Manson's shabby hired house, with its blighted background of pampas grass and Rogers statuettes, had, by a turn of the hand, and the skilful use of a few properties, been transformed into something intimate, "foreign," subtly suggestive of old romantic scenes and sentiments.†
Chpt 9
- Only old Catherine Mingott, with her absence of moral prejudices and almost parvenu indifference to the subtler distinctions, might have bridged the abyss; but she had never opened a book or looked at a picture, and cared for music only because it reminded her of gala nights at the Italiens, in the days of her triumph at the Tuileries.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(subtle as in: a subtle shade of blue) understated so as not to draw excess attention