subtilizing

You may think that I am subtilizing my impressions on purpose, but you may take it from a man who has lived a rough, a very rough life, that it is the subtleties of personalities, and contacts, and events, that count for interest and memory — and pretty well nothing else.

The Arrow of Gold 2006

What a true believer like Dr. Mollinger takes for progress may be merely a change of intellectual fashion or a subtilizing of postulates that had little merit to begin with.

High Tide Mollinger, Robert 1976

As in Nature there was forever going on a subtilizing process, so that

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

In them there is no subtilizing of human affections, of human fears, or of human faith.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

This was the real thing, whereas we had only been guessing and waiting and subtilizing.

My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

You may think that I am subtilizing my impressions on purpose, but you may take it from a man who has lived a rough, a very rough life, that it is the subtleties of personalities, and contacts, and events, that count for interest and memory --- and pretty well nothing else.

The Arrow of Gold 1919

You may think that I am subtilizing my impressions on purpose, but you may take it from a man who has lived a rough, a very rough life, that it is the subtleties of personalities, and contacts, and events, that count for interest and memory -- - and pretty well nothing else.

The Arrow of Gold : A Story Between Two Notes 1919

He describes the Aristotelian syllogism as a method which explains universals In their particulars, rather than unites particulars to obtain universals, looks upon Zeno and the sorites as a means of subtilizing rather than sharpening the intelligence, and concludes that Bacon is a great philosopher, when he advocates and illustrates _induction_, "which has been followed by the English to the great advantage of experimental philosophy."

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

And because that reality must weigh more heavily on him than her, she was trying to defend him too, against himself, to force on him, against himself, her own subtilizing, justifying view.

The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

By what gradual descent can an artist arrive at subtilizing his colours to the point of non-existence?

Goupil's Paris Salon of 1897 1897