supersubtle
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After some no doubt supersubtle finesses and pivots on both sides, Black seems to have achieved his goal on 30.
From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2023
Of those colleagues, the most important is probably Jodi Melnick, a veteran of postmodern dance with a supersubtle style, an exemplar of the less-is-more magic that Mearns seems to be after.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2022
In the past, Ms. Melnick has had trouble translating the idiosyncratic magic of her personal style, slippery and supersubtle, onto other bodies.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2016
As diagnoses of that horror they are sometimes subtle, brilliant, beautifully written; as often supersubtle, over-clever, strangled in preciosity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The sentiment which lurks more or less in all animate nature—that of not desiring the undesired of others—was lively as a passion in the supersubtle, epicurean heart of Eustacia.
From The Return of the Native by Hardy, Thomas
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