All 16 Uses of
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Blink
- Only subtle things popped up for a second or two, prompting Tabares to stop the tape and point them out.†
Chpt 1
- He looks closely at indirect measures of how the couple is doing: the telling traces of emotion that flit across one person's face; the hint of stress picked up in the sweat glands of the palm; a sudden surge in heart rate; a subtle tone that creeps into an exchange.†
Chpt 1
- He is a small and irrepressible man with the energy of someone half his age, and if you were to talk to people in the tennis world, they'd tell you that Vic Braden knows as much about the nuances and subtleties of the game as any man alive.†
Chpt 2
- The clues were pretty subtle.
Chpt 2 *subtle = difficult to understand or hard to notice
- It's just that Maier's hint was so subtle that it was picked up on only on an unconscious level.†
Chpt 2
- One of the reasons that the IAT has become so popular in recent years as a research tool is that the effects it is measuring are not subtle; as those of you who felt yourself slowing down on the second half of the Work/Family IAT above can attest, the IAT is the kind of tool that hits you over the head with its conclusions.†
Chpt 3
- I think, instead, that there is something more subtle going on here.†
Chpt 3
- It may even be that those factors play a very subtle and complex role in increasing the odds of something happening to him in the next seventy-two hours.†
Chpt 4
- But with a DOD of 4, only someone schooled in colas is going to be able to pick up on the subtle nuances that distinguish each soft drink.†
Chpt 5
- When we meet someone new, we often pick up on subtle signals, so that afterward, even though he or she may have talked in a normal and friendly manner, we may say, "I don't think he liked me," or "I don't think she's very happy."†
Chpt 6
- It is picking up on subtle, fleeting cues in order to read someone's mind—and there is almost no other impulse so basic and so automatic and at which, most of the time, we so effortlessly excel.†
Chpt 6
- They are subtle and complex and surprisingly common, and what happened on Wheeler Avenue is a powerful example of how mind reading works—and how it sometimes goes terribly awry.†
Chpt 6
- A very subtle microexpression of distress or unhappiness.†
Chpt 6 *
- We may not be able to read faces as brilliantly as someone like Paul Ekman or Silvan Tomkins can, or pick up moments as subtle as Kato Kaelin's transformation into a snarling dog.†
Chpt 6
- He put together a library of thousands of photographs of human faces in every conceivable expression and taught himself the logic of the furrows and the wrinkles and the creases, the subtle differences between the pre-smile and the pre-cry face.†
Chpt 6
- Taking our powers of rapid cognition seriously means we have to acknowledge the subtle influences that can alter or undermine or bias the products of our unconscious.†
Chpt Cncl.
Definitions:
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(subtle as in: a subtle difference or thinker) not obvious, but understandable by someone with adequate sensitivity and relevant knowledge (perhaps depending upon fine distinctions)
or:
capable of understanding things that require sensitivity and relevant knowledge (perhaps understanding fine distinctions)
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(subtle as in: a subtle shade of blue) understated so as not to draw excess attention