Sentence examples for subtle matters from inspiring English sources

Subtle matters of accent and style are perhaps the toughest test for a wholly American cast romping through this unmistakably English material, based on the hugely popular 1892 farce "Charley's Aunt," by Brandon Thomas.

It is doubtful, then, that there are adequate grounds for assigning Nietzsche a view on such subtle matters as whether ethical language is primarily cognitive or non-cognitive, when it clearly evinces aspects of both descriptive and prescriptive discourse.

He declares that: "Tara is... thoroughly knowledgeable about deciding subtle matters and about various portents.

We have achieved a better understanding of underlying disease processes, including the complex pathophysiology of sepsis, the heterogeneous nature of ARDS, the important role of the intra-abdominal compartment syndrome, and more subtle matters such as increased awareness of relative adrenal or vasopressin insufficiency or both in patients in circulatory shock.

"It's usually a much more subtle matter of time and place".

The use of performance-enhancing drugs, especially in the nineties, was hardly a subtle matter.

The Samkhya school assumes the existence of two bodies, a temporal body and a body of "subtle" matter that persists after biological death.

He argued that each action on a person's sense organs causes subtle matter to move through tubular nerves to the pineal gland, causing it to vibrate distinctively.

The body of subtle matter consists of the higher functions of buddhi ("consciousness"), ahamkara ("I-consciousness"), manas ("mind as coordinator of sense impressions"), and prana ("breath," the principle of vitality).

When Mr. de Botton explains why an old building on Manchester Square in London pleases and the new one next to it, in the same style, does not (it's a subtle matter of the window treatment), a side-by-side photograph at the bottom of the page provides the conclusive, damning evidence.

(A more subtle matter is whether they are acceptable in Hilbert's finitary mathematics.