The first one fritters away time in oversubtle line-drawing. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
It seems oversubtle to charge me with "squeamishness" when I have admitted to finding Miss Blais's horror stories "ludicrous.". From Wordnik.com. [Exorcising Demons] Reference
This however is a non-technical approach to logic, grounded in essentials, in contrast to the sterile conundrums and oversubtle analyses enjoyed by some of Epictetus 'contemporaries. From Wordnik.com. [Epictetus] Reference
The metaphysicians were oversubtle in spinning “cobwebs of learning” out of their own sub - stance, absurd in clothing in elaborate philosophical jargon what was obvious to common sense. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Lastly, concerning the disdain to receive into natural history things either common, or mean, or oversubtle and in their original condition useless, the answer of the poor woman to the haughty prince who had rejected her petition as an unworthy thing and beneath his dignity, may be taken for an oracle: "Then leave off being king.". From Wordnik.com. [The New Organon] Reference
Its caricature of the senator is close enough to the oversubtle reality to strike a chord but it suggests, as the candidates start cramming and rehearsing for the debate, that the encounter could work to the Democrat's advantage if he manages to come across as strong and steady to voters worried about the Iraq commitment: those, that is, who are worried enough to pay attention. From Wordnik.com. [The View from the Heartland] Reference
The conversations in this book have often quite unexpected turns of humour, and are filled with oversubtle questions of casuistry and curious reasonings. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Russian Novelists] Reference
Through oversubtle and even fraudulent construction of law, he said, much wrong was committed (De officiis I. From Wordnik.com. [EQUITY IN LAW AND ETHICS] Reference
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