oversubtle

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Williston Bibb Barrett is an oversubtle Southerner who has lost the gift for action and adopted instead the stance of watcher, listener and wanderer.

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Compared of course to the virile mace-work of George Bernard Shaw in his Saint Joan, it is sometimes oversubtle rapier play in the Gallic fashion that scores points but does not really make a wound.

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There is such a thing as being oversubtle, even in Middle Eastern politics.

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If a few of such Klee ideas seemed oversubtle, there was no lack of ideas.

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I’m not trying to oversimplify or make the process seem oversubtle.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright