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  • However, regarding 19th century theology, for all its "unsubtlety" and objective truthfulness it could not stem the tide of Secularism and Modernism and the progressive loss of the sense of the transcendent dimension and of the value of authority.

    Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission 2009

  • "However, regarding 19th century theology, for all its "unsubtlety" and objective truthfulness it could not stem the tide of Secularism and Modernism and the progressive loss of the sense of the transcendent dimension and of the value of authority."

    Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission 2009

  • "regarding 19th century theology, for all its 'unsubtlety' and objective truthfulness it could not stem the tide of Secularism and Modernism and the progressive loss of the sense of the transcendent dimension and of the value of authority."

    Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission 2009

  • It’s precisely this kind of unsubtlety that has given filtering in general a bad name, and it certainly suggests that Bing needs to do a lot more work to match Google’s search relevance — image filtering is not exactly a new concept, after all.

    Bing’s Brute Force Approach To Blocking Video Sex | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • It’s precisely this kind of unsubtlety that has given filtering in general a bad name, and it certainly suggests that Bing needs to do a lot more work to match Google’s search relevance — image filtering is not exactly a new concept, after all.

    Bing’s Brute Force Approach To Blocking Video Sex | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • But he put this view, the pope's view, in Simplicio's voice, and this Richard Dawkins-like unsubtlety seems to have been what caused such offence.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Brian Clegg 2010

  • But he put this view, the pope's view, in Simplicio's voice, and this Richard Dawkins-like unsubtlety seems to have been what caused such offence.

    The joy of seeing minds boggled by infinity Brian Clegg 2010

  • There's a little feeling of unsubtlety to the clips, but again it's probably far from the finished material and we should remember that.

    Filmstalker: The Hitcher clips online 2007

  • At first it's off-putting, even oppressive, an in-your-face performance of such insistent unsubtlety as to make you wonder if he has lost all sense of proportion.

    Del Toro Rescues 2007

  • Note how unsubtlety often comes hand in hand with telling, and how it also leads to repetition.

    The First Five Pages Noah Lukeman 2000

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