Sentence examples for subtly hostile from inspiring English sources

He was a great conceptualist, but there is a leveling, subtly hostile coolness in the way he saw people; they're all interchangeable.

There are few contradictory findings on a link between maternal depression and two insensitive categories in CARE-Index terms: maternal control (responsive but (covertly) hostile, (subtly) intrusive, incongruent to baby signals and behaviour) and unresponsiveness (lack of response and contingence with a baby, s. section measures).

But while these explanations are true to some degree, they overlook the fact that, in the earliest days of the war, the mountains of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee were one of the conflict's first fronts and often echoed with the sound of hostile gunfire, conflicts that would subtly set in motion some of the war's defining gears.

Strauss, subtly reading between the lines, uncovered a Spinoza hostile to the Hebrew Bible, and to the Oral Law of a tradition he had repudiated before his people, in response, excommunicated him.

It is subtly lighted.

Some designs work subtly.

"Mafiosi work subtly.

And he works subtly.

A subtly sophisticated wine.

The shift happened subtly.

Flowery, perfumed, subtly tart.