What's the difference between caressing and subtile?

Caressing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Caress

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And so I would stare at a discarded popcorn box, a spilled drink or simply the darkness that disappeared into the seat ahead of me – listening carefully to quickening breaths – allowing the film’s soundscape to caress me.
  • (2) He was hungry, he was cold, he couldn’t carry on – what else could we do?” She stops for a second, and leans down to caress Vito at her feet.
  • (3) This carnival of camera phones, caressing and even groping (the waxen men do have "moulds" where their private parts would be so that their trousers hang properly, but no, nothing too realistic down there) is the celebrity world were we in control.
  • (4) As well as sparking a novel, Merrill's caress further initiated Forster into the comradely haven of his and Carpenter's rural domesticity: a Derbyshire homestead, safe from public scrutiny.
  • (5) Exposing one's fleshy bits to the gentle caress of the solar furnace has always boasted some distinguished advocates.
  • (6) "Now I just hope to be able to recover my wife's body, to be able to know what happened in those final moments, to be able to caress her before burying her near to her mother, in Sicily, as she wished," Vincenzi told the Italian daily La Repubblica.
  • (7) Except for past enjoyment of sexual intercourse and of touching and caressing without sexual intercourse, all analyses revealed sex differences reflecting more activity and enjoyment by men.
  • (8) First it smells you, then it escapes, then it comes back, and you feel like caressing it, playing with it.
  • (9) Physicians need to appreciate the spectrum of sexual function among older patients, which includes emotional intimacy, touching, and caressing as sexual activity as well as intercourse.
  • (10) What a departure from his previous programmes where we get to see Jamie caress his coriander-infused salad leaves, massage rosemary into his meat, and gently stir the stock bubbling away on the stove.
  • (11) 77% of them actively caressed the newborn in this position.
  • (12) The content analysis indicated that at least six domains are sampled, including seduction activities, body caressing, oral-genital and genital stimulation, intercourse, masturbation, and erotic media.
  • (13) Of the fathers present during delivery, 55% caressed the newborn, and 50% talked to it within the first 15 minutes.
  • (14) Of these activities, only touching and caressing showed a significant decline from the 80s to the 90s, with further analyses revealing a significant decline in this activity for men but not for women.
  • (15) In austerity Britain in 2014 a smartphone may well be the last thing you caress at night – and, it seems, increasingly, the only thing that gets turned on in the morning.
  • (16) The word sounds so inoffensive, a synonym for "brush" or "caress".
  • (17) His voice sounded gruff, his eyes still fixed on my breasts as he continued the fierce stroking and caressing.
  • (18) Her voice is plump and pleasure-seeking, prodding and caressing a song until it yields more delights than its author had intended, bringing a spark of vivacity and a measure of cool to even the hokier material.
  • (19) They stroked it and caressed it and generally had the Welsh running round in circles for three parts of the game.
  • (20) Ismet, 14 years old, had been made to lie down on his stomach here and his head was here" - she swept her hand over the bottom step of the charred house, and dreamily caressed a clump of grass which had sprouted at one end, where her son's head had been that morning.

Subtile


Definition:

  • (a.) Thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile vapor; a subtile medium.
  • (a.) Delicately constituted or constructed; nice; fine; delicate; tenuous; finely woven.
  • (a.) Acute; piercing; searching.
  • (a.) Characterized by nicety of discrimination; discerning; delicate; refined; subtle.
  • (a.) Sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After operative methods have been subtilized and radicalized only preventive medical examinations and early public instruction may improve the prognosis of the patients concerned.
  • (2) Accurate preoperative evaluation and subtile operative technique are imperative, however.
  • (3) More subtile effects of milk processing on milk digestibility and stomach emptying are mentioned.
  • (4) It was possible histologically to follow the most subtile alterations on the membranes from the very beginning of the chronic bronchitis.
  • (5) The present paper suggests the autometallographic demonstration of intralysosomal silver as a sensitive tool for the detection of subtile toxic effects in cell cultures, the method is suggested to primarily detect lysosomal damage.
  • (6) Fatty acids damage the membrane integrity in such a way that the subtile equilibrium between the factors is disturbed.
  • (7) The removal of the angioma requires the most subtile preparation.
  • (8) A microscopical examination of the Leptothrix-filaments revealed a subtile segmentation and sporulation.
  • (9) In the individual case, it is necessary to identify the major causes by employing subtile investigative measures, in order to be able to plan rational treatment.
  • (10) Inhibited subtilisin (Subtilism Carlsberg; Subtilopeptidase A) is unfolded in the presence of 7 M guanidine hydrochloride.
  • (11) There was concluded firstly that the possibility of metastases in the pelvic lymph nodes is dependent from the size of the primary tumor and secondly that before treatment a subtile diagnostic procedure secures that only good cases of cervical cancer FIGO stage I b are operated on by radical vaginal hysterectomy (Schauta-Amreich).
  • (12) The stereological investigations revealed a subtile reaction of the medial stapled tibial plate in a total of 37 domestic pigs (10 weeks old) during the postoperative follow-up (up to 17 weeks).
  • (13) Despite subtile changes of glucose, glucagon and to a lesser degree insulin levels which would be suggestive of insulin resistance, the data obtained from skeletal muscle argue against peripheral insulin resistance in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
  • (14) For the clarification of pathogenesis and clinical relevance of decreases of the triiodothyronine (T3) level in patients with chronic inflammatory rheumatism in a group of 63 patients with clinically, paraclinically and roentgenologically diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis (59 times) and with SLE (4 times), respectively, parallel were determined parameters of the thyroid gland function and of the rheumatic activity as well as a subtile drug anamnesis for the medication of antirheumatic drugs was established.
  • (15) -- It has been refered to the importance of the exact conisation technique and subtile histotechnical obtaining of slides in step sections.
  • (16) A stable implantation of this biocompatible material is possible, if the primary attachment by means of special construction features and subtile operation technique is ensured.
  • (17) The measurement procedure was found to be very sensitive with respect to all fractions in evaluating the subtile differences between different lot numbers of the aerosol.
  • (18) The other highly vascular neoplasms show unspecific signs of vascular malignant tumors; subtile angiographic signs may, however, be present and help in the differential diagnosis.
  • (19) Subtile investigations in protein diagnostics are required for avoiding incomplete monoclonal immunoglobulins which may greatly enter the kidneys to be overlooked.
  • (20) When photographs taken at diastolic and systolic culminations were compared, with the haploscope, when stereoscopically seen, they clearly showed the subtile deformation of the vessels under a stereoscopic effect.

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