10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERSUBTLETY»
Discover the use of
oversubtlety in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
oversubtlety and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
How Mockingbirds Are: O’odham Ritual Orations
Here is his oversubtlety. He is telling a story, of the first Wine Drinks; and the
Mockingbird speech also tells a story, of how sounds from a Wine Drink are
heard and repeated by a mockingbird at a “rain-house” (as he put it, “Away they
see the ...
2
Masking and Unmasking the Female Mind: Disguising Romances ...
Baker tells us that the history of the heroic romance is one in which "the cult of
love and gallantry was carried to extravagant lengths . . . the mania for
sentimental analysis went to the same extremes of oversubtlety and deviation
from nature.
Mary Anne Schofield, 1990
The same oversubtlety, we think, shews itself in Mr. Latham's arrangement of the
irregular verbs*— an arrangement wholly un- suited to the English language in
its present state, and tending only to confuse by its apparent arbitrariness and ...
Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, 1842
Out of these an over-subtle arguer—and oversubtlety is a common disease in
minor lawyers—may easily weave, in every arguable case, an inextricable web of
plausible error. “There are judges,” said Lord Campbell, “before whom no case is
...
The second volume, full as it is of fertile and interesting combinations, has the
defect not only of oversubtlety, but of seeming to be written for the sake of a
theological hypothesis. Mr. Gladstone believes that the Greek religion from
Homer ...
the actors are wonderful, The Dresser is the most entertaining and exciting filmed
play in years. No one, I think, will fault Harwood's work for oversubtlety. The
imperious yet muddled Sir is very literally Lear himself, the dresser his Fool,
Madge ...
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Chambers concise dictionary
852 Some words formed with the prefix over-; see the entry for over- for the
meanings of the different senses. oversubtlety n sense 1 overtrump v sense 2
overviolent adj sense 1 oversupply v, n sense 1 overuse v, n sense 1 overweary
adj ...
8
The History of the Common Law in England
Thereafter, Hale saw degeneration toward the prolixity and oversubtlety that
afflicted pleading in his own day. Substantive law after 1300 is virtually omitted
from the History of the Common Law, ostensibly because it was well known from
the ...
Sir Matthew Hale, Charles M. Gray, 1971
9
The Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings
Her reports are not on the practical level of the novel or the memoir, and they
have an oversubtlety that does not quite elude the ancient religious heresy she
represents which finally makes her unacceptable not only to rationalist liberals
but ...
Philip Rieff, Jonathan B. Imber, 1990
10
On Literature, Cultures, and Religion
... inexpressible" and who lacks intermediary ideas, is that he may become
affected and obscure, and Joubert does not altogether avoid these penalties of
oversubtlety. "To reach the regions of light," he says, "one must pass through the
clouds.
Irving Babbitt, George Andrew Panichas, 2005
