James himself once described his complicated, nuanced characters as supersubtle fry. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Make all the money thou canst: if sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian not too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thou shalt enjoy her; therefore make money. ❋ Unknown (2004)
'Complex' does not necessarily mean arcane or supersubtle or ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
This latter case may be accounted for in two ways: sometimes a reader is supersubtle and imagines embellishments that do not exist; and sometimes the poet builds better than he knows. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
If sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian be not too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thou shalt enjoy her; therefore make money. ❋ Unknown (1914)
This may be regarded as a supersubtle distinction; but it is necessary if we are to understand the important fact about Morris that -- to quote Mr. Compton-Rickett -- "human nature in the concrete never profoundly interested him." ❋ Robert Lynd (1914)
Behind that changeless mask, as in a safe retreat, the supersubtle devil that was the man might plot destruction and plan the laying of dreadful mines. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)
Looking about among the very best _clichés_ (my own and others) -- "supersubtle analysis," "intimate psychology," "masterly handling," "incomparable artistry" -- I found nothing that it didn't seem ❋ Various (1898)
During the last half-century textual, aesthetic, and biographical criticism has been pursued in Germany with unflagging industry and energy; and although laboured and supersubtle theorising characterises much German aesthetic criticism, its mass and variety testify to the impressiveness of the appeal that Shakespeare's work has made to the ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)
What shall I say, in the way of the particular, of the general felicity before me, for the sweetness of the hour to which the incident just named, with its strange and amusing juxtapositions of the patriarchally primitive and the insolently supersubtle, the earliest and the latest efforts of restless science, were almost immediately to succeed? ❋ Henry James (1879)
The perception of this high result caused Mrs. Assingham fairly to flush with responsive joy; she glittered at her young friend, from moment to moment, quite feverishly; it was positively as if her young friend had, in some marvellous, sudden, supersubtle way, become a source of succour to herself, become beautifully, divinely retributive. ❋ Henry James (1879)
But what was the most vivid mark of the brothers, and vividest on the part of the supersubtle Louis, was his French treatment of certain of our native local names, Ohio and Iowa for instance, which he rendered, as to their separate vowels, with a daintiness and a delicacy invidious and imperturbable, so that he might have been Chateaubriand declaiming Les ❋ Henry James (1879)
The sentiment which lurks more or less in all animate nature -- that of not desiring the undesired of others -- was lively as a passion in the supersubtle, epicurean heart of Eustacia. ❋ Unknown (1878)
But this inconsistency, if it merits the name, is not an affair of artificial and supersubtle refinement, but is based in the fundamental principles of our nature. ❋ Unknown (1831)
