subtly
Adverb
Meaning
In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly.
Nicely; delicately.
Deceitfully; delusively.
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They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.
So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.
The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.