The sky over them was like a jewelled cup from which the dusk was pouring; the air was crisp with the compelling tang of the sea, and the whole landscape was infused with the subtleties of a sea evening.
Most of Mr Spray's hearers, however, were incapable of following his subtleties, and many old-fashioned Dissenters were much pained by his "siding with the Catholics"; while others thought he had better let politics alone.
And Will was of a temperament to feel keenly the presence of subtleties: a man of clumsier perceptions would not have felt, as he did, that for the first time some sense of unfitness in perfect freedom with him had sprung up in Dorothea's mind, and that their silence, as he conducted her to the carriage, had had a chill in it.
But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart?
People who are depressed "don't see subtleties, and we can see this in the words they use," says James W.
As the world watches for policy clues from the new administration, the daily tweeting is showing up Mr Trump's ignorance of diplomatic subtleties and seeming disregard for geopolitical complexities.
The most exclusive and expensive cuts are reserved for a handful of Michelin-star chefs, but Polmard says he personally visits them to make sure they understand the nuances and subtleties of the meat.
" Matthew would hear nothing of these subtleties.