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subliminal
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  • I should never have let John write the first chapter because he always has to twist things subliminally.  (source)
    subliminally = in a manner not recognized by the conscious mind, but still of influence
  • Eckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle, so slight, that only a faint cry of his subliminal senses warned him it was there.  (source)
  • His mother and sister subliminally taught Lale what it was a woman wanted from a man, and so far he had spent his life trying to live up to these lessons.†  (source)
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  • Bollywood pop—turned down to a low, almost subliminal whine—spiraled and sparkled hypnotically, just at the threshold of my hearing.†  (source)
  • Go said we must be mutually subliminally forgetting to mail those checks, that what we really wanted to forget was our dad.†  (source)
    subliminally = in a manner not recognized by the conscious mind, but still of influence
  • Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.†  (source)
  • "No surprises" is the motto of the franchise ghetto, its Good Housekeeping seal, subliminally blazoned on every sign and logo that make up the curves and grids of light that outline the Basin.†  (source)
  • In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.†  (source)
  • Years passed and I became a part of the Randel family and subliminally tried to become a substitute for the lost Randy.†  (source)
  • Some of it was slipping through, flooding his brain with sinister subliminal images.†  (source)
  • Drew was glaring at Diana Leven, subliminally begging to be dragged off the witness stand, Alex assumed.†  (source)
  • It's not that smiles and nods are subliminal messages.†  (source)
  • The skin is off the hand—we see it immediately, something very wrong—but by reversing the thumb he makes it look even more wrong, it registers subliminally even if we can't put our finger on it, something really out of order, not right.†  (source)
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