Sentence examples for excessive subtlety from inspiring English sources
Even the usual meal can verge on excessive subtlety and daintiness, leaving you hungry two hours later despite all the money you've spent.
Victor Niederhoffer told Cassidy that "Galt" is actually short for "Galton," as in Francis Galton, who, Cassidy wrote, was "a Victorian polymath who helped to develop regression analysis and coined the term 'eugenics.' " Galt Niederhoffer's name may be a coincidence, but Victor Niederhoffer, perhaps looking to hedge against the risk of excessive subtlety, named one of his younger daughters "Rand".
It's a simple method-"I don't think anybody's going to say I'm guilty of excessive subtlety," he says-but it works... Goldsmith is so extraordinarily buoyant and extroverted that he seems to enter a room in a tinkle of magic dust... His head is round and pink and bald, his eyes are blue, and his chin juts out and upward to meet his nose, like the chin of a wooden puppet.
The dialogue between Lipsius and his old friend Langius — cast in the role of the Stoic sapiens who had achieved mastery over his emotions by reason — was clearly intended to provide readers with something simpler than contemporary philosophy, which Lipsius criticized for its excessive subtlety, and to establish constancy as the chief virtue.
The copious research the novelist has done on a range of subjects from forestry to embalming to taxidermy is unfurled at excessive length and with all the style and subtlety of a Haynes manual.
No subtlety was necessary.
And enjoyed the subtlety.
