Word: subtlest
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...like the intricate oil-paintings of the time: a little figure in the foreground, and behind, in chiaroscuro, ships, crowds, cannon, marching men. In the interests of his characters, he has pried with a candle into many dusty cupboards. He is witty without being glib, and schooled in that subtlest accomplishment of scholarship-the ability to conceal his labor...
...Congresses of recent years, much interest was taken in the question of Communism. M. Tomsky made a veiled speech which was regarded as the subtlest Bolshevik propaganda. One H. Pollitt advocated an international conference of all trades union movements, including the Amsterdam and Moscow Internationales, with the object of bringing the "organized workers of the world under international fighting leadership...
...appointment came at a critical time, when amidst the strife and change of political parties contending over points of a constitution but half interpreted there arose the need of a great lawyer to explain clearly and aright the true principles of the American scheme of government. Cases involving the subtlest points of the Constitution came before Marshall during his long term as Chief Justice, and to the wisdom of his decisions is due in great measure that prevalence of sound constitutional doctrine and opinion that has made the permanence of the Union possible. To this and all his work John...
...dominant among them, or Cowley would still be popular,- Cowley, to whom the Muse gave every gift but one, the gift of the unexpected and inevitable word. Nor can mere originality assure the interest of posterity, else why are Chaucer and Gray familiar, while Donne, one of the subtlest and most self-irradiating minds that ever sought an outlet in verse, is known only...