All 7 Uses of
subtle
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- No subtleties now.†
Part 4 *subtleties = things that are not obvious, but noticeable by someone with adequate sensitivity and relevant knowledge
- What it was that changed this conclusion, I don't remember — some intuition, some insight one day, perhaps it was a subtle change in Sylvia's mood whenever the dripping was particularly loud and she was trying to talk.†
Part 1
- There is a classic esthetic which romantics often miss because of its subtlety.†
Part 1
- Had nature so subtly hidden zero that all the Greeks and all the Romans...millions of them...couldn't find it?†
Part 3
- Was Quality something that you "just see" or might it be something more subtle than that, so that you wouldn't see it at all immediately, but only after a long period of time?†
Part 3
- He'd been prepared to decode messages of great subtlety, systems of great complexity in order to understand the deeper inner meaning of Aristotle, claimed by many to be the greatest philosopher of all time.†
Part 4 *
- All this, which is simply Gorgias' description of what people called Sophists have tended to do, now becomes subtly rendered by Socrates' dialectic into something else.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(subtle as in: a subtle poison) working in an indirect or hidden way
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(2)
(subtle as in: a subtle shade of blue) understated so as not to draw excess attention
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(3)
(subtle as in: a subtle difference or thinker) not obvious, but noticeable with enough insight and knowledge
or:
able to notice or understand things that require insight and sensitivity