So at lunch she prattled of the book almost continuously, and at the end of it thought Maggie more unsubtle than ever: she looked rather tired and strained, thought the old lady, and she hardly said a word from beginning to end.
"The Necromancers"
Robert Hugh Benson
The others read, talked, smoked, bandied over my head some unsubtle chaff.
"'Twixt Land & Sea"
Joseph Conrad
The sun beat down on them from the zenith with the full unsubtle light of noonday, prosaically enough, but the wind, blowing as hard as ever, whistled unceasingly around their exposed tower and provided a sort of counter-dose of eerieness and suggestiveness; it gave them the sense of being rather magnificently aloof from the rest of the world.
"The Whirligig of Time"
Wayland Wells Williams