Pronunciation of the English word subtly.
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1. | The president tried to make his case for war by subtly appealing to the electorate's deep-seated suspicion of Arabs. | |
2. | George Eliot is subtly subversive: there are have-nots on every fringe, and her women collaborate in exquisitely detailed mutual oppression. | |
3. | When you are talking to someone, sometimes you are unaware that subtly, you are talking about yourself and what is happening in your own life. | |
4. | It was in mid-summer, when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation. | |
5. | Mary believes Tom is subtly using her gender to discredit her. | |
6. | But even the most spiritual life has its temptations. The extravagant fever of industrialism and intellectualism had so subtly poisoned the plant-men that when at last they rebelled against it they swung too far, falling into the snare of a vegetal life as one-sided as the old animal life had been. Little by little they gave less and less energy and time to "animal" pursuits, until at last their nights as well as their days were spent wholly as trees, and the active, exploring, manipulating, animal intelligence died in them forever. | |
7. | If you're going to point out Tom's mistakes, at least do it subtly. | |
8. | There are four types of sounds on the Japanese hand drum: Po, Pu, Ta, Chi. Po and Pu have very similar tones, but are subtly different. |