He detected grammatical niceties in Latin, in regard to the consecution of tenses which had escaped preceding critics.
But the common people did not discriminate, and believed that when they bought an Indulgence they were purchasing pardon from sin; and Luther placed himself in the position of the ordinary Christian uninstructed in the niceties of theological distinctions.
Men had to receive the very rudiments of culture before they could appreciate its niceties.
He buried his meaning in vagueness and niceties.
The Assyrians with all their culture, never attained the stage of analysis which demonstrates that only a few fundamental sounds are involved in human speech, and hence that it is possible to express all the niceties of utterance with an alphabet of little more than a score of letters.
