Lexicographical Neighbors of Supersubtlety
Literary usage of Supersubtlety
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Bookman's Budget by Austin Dobson (1917)
"CRITICAL supersubtlety AD ART-CRITICISM takes many forms ; but there are three
varieties of it which must be fairly familiar to most people. ..."
2. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"... in that it reveals the difference between the subtlety that insinuates and
seduces and the supersubtlety that irritates and repels. ..."
3. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1888)
"That this, the natural meaning, is here the right one, might hardly seem to
require indication. But the supersubtlety of commentators has read into the word ..."
4. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"But in general the effort to compress a paradox or hyperbole into every couplet
leaves the impression of straining and supersubtlety, as when the satirist ..."
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