What is "subtly"

Usage examples of "subtly".

Subtly altered, those places had become the nodes where the tiny machines could excyst and begin to amplify complexity into true consciousness, the change which was the miraculous gift of the Preservers, the miracle with which he had been entrusted.

Actually, Rodriguez was forty-five and had been a successful litigator for twenty years, but he somehow managed to give the impression that this was his first trial, and he subtly appealed to the jury to cut him some slack.

Brother Longo stepped up to the top of it, and such was the power of his presence, and such was the sense of expectation in the crowd, that the whole chaotic mass of people seemed to reorient itself subtly, until it seemed that almost without moving they reorganized themselves around him in concentric rings.

Sheldon Morgenstern, whose father was a cantor and whose mother had wanted her son to become a CPA, subtly undergoes a sea-change from publicity man for the great Stag Preston to pimp for the great, horny Stag Preston.

His expression subtly transformed, Mortier turned his gaze back to the object of his previous discourse.

A decade ago the relationship was formalized and a subtly reorganized Perihelion was officially annexed to NASA as an advisory body.

As I turn those pages, As fresh as in the primal ages, As day by day I scan, perplext, The ever subtly changing text, I feel that I am slowly growing To think no other work worth knowing.

To ask Potch himself, however subtly, was to run the unbearable risk of learning that what I feared was true.

Subtly the keening song of the spinning, precessing gyroscopes wavered and, as it did so, the outlines of the people and instruments in the control room lost their sharpness, while the colors of everything momentarily dulled and then became more vivid.

Watching him, Prew seemed to see him change subtly into a totally different man, as if he had drunk the magic potion and was pulling a Jekyll and Hyde.

Wulfric turned his quizzing glass upon the young man, unsure whether he was being subtly reprimanded for being high in the instep or whether he was being treated as some sort of comrade who was expected to agree that out-and-outers made more desirable companions than ladies with refined manners.

You have learned to concentrate deeply, to think subtly, to have affection for abstractions, to live at a distance from quotidian things.

The ever-strobing sensorium subtly invaded them, made their worlds prickly-acute.

He was born and raised in a world soaked with the rotten essence of slavedom and every thought he thinks, every move he makes is stained with slavery, subtly altered with slavery.

A delightful odor subtly sweet, and yet not faint, began to freshen the already perfumed air,--and Sah-luma, flinging himself again on his couch, motioned Theos to take a similar resting-place opposite.