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Examples

  • Peach and lime flavors dominate here, with white flowers and super-subtle sweet herbs behind.

    Lenn Thompson 2009

  • Peach and lime flavors dominate here, with white flowers and super-subtle sweet herbs behind.

    Tasting Notes 2009

  • Peach and lime flavors dominate here, with white flowers and super-subtle sweet herbs behind.

    LENNDEVOURS: 2009

  • Peach and lime flavors dominate here, with white flowers and super-subtle sweet herbs behind.

    Hermann J. Wiemer 2007 Dry Riesling 2009

  • “Oscar Wilde,” I remarked casually, “is a great friend of mine,” but the super-subtle Italian was already warned.

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

  • So the woman is not being super-subtle, just plain ignorant.

    Dame Pauline Needs a History Lesson 2007

  • They reported it you can see that first story here, with a credit at the end to ‘S’, my super-subtle pseudonym.

    You know what they say… 2005

  • At least this is no super-subtle modernist divine dealing out old coins surreptitiously stamped with a new image and superscription, but a plain blunt heretic who knows his mind (or, rather, mood).

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 Various

  • Christy made one or two super-subtle remarks which no one understood.

    The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

  • There has been a great deal of super-subtle dividing of intentions into actual, virtual, habitual, and interpretative; but if you are going to take your stand on logic you must be ready to face a logical conclusion.

    The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

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