How To Use Exquisite In A Sentence

  • His small, exquisitely crafted pictures could look a bit twee.
  • These small exquisitely carved ivory figurines come in an almost limitless variety.
  • These require you to face manipulative individuals, relinquish your rights unfairly or be exquisitely tactful when you'd be justified in blowing up. Times, Sunday Times
  • His young, handsome, tonsured head was exquisitely carved in stone. The pope is coming. Liberals, be glad
  • Authentic Chinese patterns come to life in silk jacquards, prints and exquisite beaded pieces.
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  • We are now told, with equal wonder and admiration, that natural selection is the agent of exquisite design.
  • With each soft shadow and sharp crimp exquisitely rendered, the act of painting serves to overwhelm the subject.
  • International Food, cakes and preserves, exquisite craft, homemade sweets and lollies, pre-loved clothes and books and heaps more.
  • At ten to four I was awoken by a blackcap hopping along the tin roof, then striking up the most exquisite warbling, at first utterly solo in the half-light, soon joined by other birds. Wildwood
  • A remarkable part of this exquisite symbiosis is the way the squid keeps the bacterial culture fresh within its light organ.
  • She had exquisite taste and a flawless grasp of the Court's Byzantine code of conduct.
  • We had attended Morning Chant and were now seated for breakfast, disheartened but not surprised that the early Greys had already taken the bacon, and it remained only in exquisite odor. Excerpt: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
  • His compendious book, then, ranges from dry speculation on geology to exquisite description of flora, spangled with remarkably apt epigrams.
  • Crude surgery without anesthesia or asepsis has been replaced by modern painless surgery with its exquisite technical refinement. The Emperor of All Maladies
  • Given such quality and differences in approach, exquisite point-by-point collisions were inevitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some are quite basic, mere saucer-like indentations, but others are exquisitely engineered with intricate pivots and fulcrums unravelling to form a protruding secure holder.
  • It is a collection of the most exquisite rendering of ancient Chinese verse.
  • Bronze idol of Ganapathi, with finely proportioned torsos and exquisitely designed limbs is a cynosure of all eyes.
  • David brought along his wire-haired terrier, Dexter; Audrey brought along only her exquisite taste. Stephen Collins: winner of the Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story prize 2010
  • It was cool without being chill, and took the warmth of one's hand flatteringly soon, as if it liked to do so, yet kept its freshness; it was smooth without being glossy, mat as a pearl, and as delightful to roll in the hand; and of an exquisite, alarming frangibility that gave it, in its small way, that flavour which belongs to pleasures that are dogged by the danger of a violent end. The Judge
  • There are many exquisite details, carved doorways, potted plants framed by shaded windows.
  • First the candy: Known as Mozart Kugeln, packed in a delightful red tin with tiny portraitures of the composer, these are deluxe confections exquisitely filled with marzipan, made from "fresh green pistachios, almonds and rich hazelnut-nougat, enrobed with delicious milk and bitter chocolates. Rozanne Gold: Tastes of the Week
  • Betwixt the gracylament of the foote and the cuppe, it was knitte together with a handle of inestimable workemanship, and in lyke manner the foote and the bowle were of an excellent anaglyphie of foliature, monsters and byformed Scyllules, so exquisitely expressed, as could be imbossed, chased, or ingrauen by proportionate circulation. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
  • I don't know why the film got panned so much - for me it's exquisitely, painfully beautiful.
  • With over 25 stands displaying their beautiful range of exquisite handmade crafts, the fair is sure to attract a large gathering
  • Their exquisitely bejeweled faces appear in oil paintings at performance halls across India. Top 5 must-sees at the Kennedy Center's Maximum India festival
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  • Peter, however, reassured them somewhat, for, although he was not clad in buckskin and feathers, he wore exquisitely beaded moccasins, a scarlet sash about his waist, a small owl feather sticking in his hat band, and his ears were pierced, displaying huge earrings of hammered silver. The Shagganappi
  • The fountain illustrated, an exquisite piece of Gothic architecture in miniature, was designed to be both fanciful and functional.
  • The piece is illustrated with images that demonstrate the austere intensity of his work since then, exquisite abstract interiors and still lifes executed in his preferred palette of white, grey, light ochre and sienna.
  • Another closely related plant with exquisite orange-red flowers, which in some books bears the Latin name sedum is roseroot. Kootenay Rockies - News
  • Above all, he turned the wanton cruelty of the natural world into clothes of exquisite beauty, season after season. Times, Sunday Times
  • All the exquisite, surrounding obscurity was animated by that music, which continued in the distance, in the mystery of the leaves and of the stones, in the depths of all the small, black holes of rocks or walls; it seemed like chivies in miniature, or rather, a sort of frail concert somewhat mocking -- oh! not very mocking, and without any maliciousness -- led timidly by inoffensive gnomes. Ramuntcho
  • The Big House was of sturdy concrete, but here was marble in exquisite delicacy. CHAPTER XXVIII
  • Boucheron won the day, and will be auctioning an exquisite brooch of diamonds, rock crystal, topaz and emeralds, with the cash donated to the new foundation.
  • The agony is not quite as exquisite as it has been in the past.
  • Mr Zhang's photography is exquisite.
  • The new concerto is a delightful piece with an exquisite central slow movement," he said. Vivaldi flute concerto discovered
  • And right on the next page you have ‘The Butterfly’, an exquisite lyric that reminds you of Cummings at his inspired best.
  • Here they are displayed adjacently as Tintoretto must have intended: the rigid symmetry of the former painting makes clear that it was meant for a frontal view, while "Washing" demands to be seen from the side, where the perspective at once makes exquisite, coherent sense. The View From Venice
  • Misery of the most exquisite kind was tearing her heart in pieces, stabbing her throat with long, forklike pains. Rose O'Paradise
  • But it is also an exquisitely coded and exploitative masterpiece of tub-thumping demagoguery. Times, Sunday Times
  • Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea. NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art
  • Gold and silver were made into exquisite adornments, and beautiful objects were created from indigenous turquoise, marble, and other stones.
  • Sara had other ideas, however, and extended a leg high into the air to flick it up before manoeuvring to execute an exquisite overhead kick that flew past Francois Dubordeaux into the bottom right corner of his goal.
  • The pages brim with incisive descriptions and exquisite pictures of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and Patagonia.
  • The trunk of an Asian elephant is so exquisitely prehensile that it can pick up a dime from a concrete floor.
  • As the weather grew warmer, the daily swim became a routine of exquisite pleasure. Seminary Boy
  • The tea house is exquisite, on my list of 10 favorite buildings I have ever experienced.
  • Claiming to have Spanish-styled decorations, the eatery carefully chose its ornaments and above each table hangs a colourful and exquisite lamp.
  • I felt I was in the presence of an angel; a wondrous, exquisite but delicate angel.
  • I could empathise with the exquisite torture of figuring out your place in the world.
  • Sure enough, an extremely tall and bony man descended from the spiral staircase to their right, dressed exquisitely in a solid black suit and tie.
  • These exquisite works are now available in masterfully reproduced limited editions on canvas that capture all the detail and rich vibrancy of the originals.
  • It is the cathexis that makes love both exquisite and painful but it is the "will to nurture one's own and another's spiritual growth" that makes it endure. Archive 2008-07-01
  • One of Ohio's foremost quilt historians has assembled exquisite examples of calamanco, ‘T’ quilts, and borderless pieced quilts to show the influence of Connecticut aesthetics and history on the making of early quilts in this region.
  • Just as the exquisite sea-anemones and all the graceful ocean-flowers die out at some fathoms below the surface, the elegances and suavities of life die out one by one as we sink through the social scale. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
  • J. P. Newell, he always wore his gown, mortar board, exquisitely coloured hood and dog collar,’ he writes.
  • Wanshicheng has exquisite craft, advanced plating line, stamping machine, HF welding machine and other relevant equipment.
  • In nearly five decades of concert going this writer has rarely heard more exquisite, sensitively projected Chopin.
  • The two wedding-cake pulpits and the organ case opposite are as grand as can be, and interior so bracketed is the ne plus ultra of American colonial church architecture, plain and crisp and white, with exquisitely classical proportions. Archive 2009-01-01
  • That the Faroes would not be easily subdued was clear early in the second half when an exquisite Borg free kick from 25 yards out shaved the junction of Scotland's bar and post.
  • They were a blend of exquisite tastes. Times, Sunday Times
  • And some of them, such as poppies, cornflowers and corncockles are exquisitely beautiful as well.
  • The sinking of bodies in water has likewise the same effect, as I remember to have heard of bottles of wine being let down into a deep well to cool, but through accident or neglect being left there for many years, and then taken out; and that the wine not only was free from sourness or flatness, but tasted much finer, owing, it would seem, to a more exquisite commixture of its parts. The New Organon
  • Poe was the juiciest rhymer of the nineteenth century—before Swinburne, that is—but Mallarmé in his wisdom translated Poe into exquisitely rhymeless French prose, and then Mallarmé published his reverent prose translations in a book, with line drawings by Manet. THE ANTHOLOGIST
  • They both took quadruple bogey nines and suffered the exquisite torture that golf inflicts on all those who deign to play the game.
  • Exhibits include exquisite wooden panels, woodcarvings, ivory works, bronze castings, archaeological artefacts, stone sculptures and palm-leaf etchings.
  • He then produced a couple of exquisite chips to save par on the closing holes. The Sun
  • The traditional Arab dessert is baklava, which is an exquisite pastry with layers of phyllo dough covered with nuts and honey.
  • The ability of that medium to distort, graft, reopen and reanimate lost time permits these poems their exquisite, darkly funny dissections.
  • He eats appreciatively after the manner of a _bon vivant; _ he uses his napkin gently and frequently; he glances blandly at the surroundings; watching him, you would suppose the viands were the choicest of the season, exquisitely prepared, while, in reality, they are poor and unsubstantial stuff, the refuse, perhaps, of better restaurants. Fifth Avenue
  • Patient, cogent and an exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence.
  • The dream-sea had been more or less preserved, its existence an exquisite rumor, never proved, and all the more potent for that. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • They were physically tough and exquisitely beautiful, but also intelligent and as obedient as dogs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another new duck for us was the exquisite Harlequin Duck, a waterfowl rarely spotted close to shore.
  • From the kick-off both teams put on a display of stylish, exquisite rugby.
  • Upstairs in the big bedchamber is a ceiling of beams worked in bold roll mouldings; and there is an exquisite little parlour, lined with linen fold panels, with a breastsummer carved with strange animals. Medieval People
  • We Westerners love confronting the inadequacy of our rationalism and Amagatu capitalises on that, giving us also polished performances and exquisite stagecraft to hold our attention when our metaphysical appreciation wanes.
  • He recovered with an exquisite chip that came to rest on the far lip of the hole. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was restored again, exquisitely, by the current owners. Times, Sunday Times
  • Happily, the technology is now doing its job, collecting data methodically and with exquisite sensitivity.
  • And it must be the most exquisite torture to be a centrist who is also a patriot.
  • Thick tapestry wall hangings vie in splendour with the rich cloth covering her prayer table, on which an exquisitely illuminated Book of Hours lies open. Foundations « Tales from the Reading Room
  • His exquisite phrasing is heard frequently on 16-or 32-bar alto sax solos, and occasionally on trumpet and clarinet.
  • Exquisite pleasure thrilled through every nerve in my body.
  • Along the path there were fascinating details, composed of the manifold greenery which revels in damp heat, ferns, mosses, confervae, fungi, trailers, shading tiny rills which dropped down into grottoes feathery with the exquisite Trichomanes radicans, or drooped over the rustic path and hung into the river, and overhead the finely incised and almost feathery foliage of several varieties of maple admitted the light only as a green mist. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
  • In his own times he was known chiefly for his portraits in pastel, which are especially exquisite. Times, Sunday Times
  • My mother still smells and looks exquisite. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is in fact Santiago's hottest Pan Asian restaurant-bar, serving fine cocktails and exquisite selections of sashimi and miso you never thought possible this side of the Chinese Sea.
  • Longtime pair Anita Campbell and Mark Lewis tied the nuptial knot this Saturday, Feb. 16 at Café de Ville, the exquisite eatery on 124 Street that Campbell purchased in 2000.
  • This "foppery" of Shakespeare's day had, then, its really delightful side, a quality in no sense "affected," by which it satisfies a real instinct in our minds -- the fancy so many of us have for an exquisite and curious skill in the use of words. Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
  • My mother still smells and looks exquisite. Times, Sunday Times
  • I will never forget her exquisite bourree en arriere - the floating quality of her run backwards on her pointes - and the shock when for lack of stage depth she hit the scenery against the back wall and fell. Canada's Artistic Boom II
  • Crystal Mountain's Thistle Pub & Grille, located in Kinlochen, a Scottish-inspired lodge near the Clipper quad lift, might sound rather bar-like and it does have a wide selection of Scottish ales, Michigan wines, designer martinis and single malt whiskeys, but it's helmed by CIA-trained executive chef Darren Hawley who regularly whips up such exquisitely delicious delights as smoked pheasant and morel galantine with pickled beet and goat cheese gateau. Pam Grout: Crystal Mountain Resort: Skiing for Grownups
  • He had exquisite taste in literature, but curiously enough these wonderful books didn't sell.
  • And the exquisite consolation, when you have ascertained the badness of all fact, in knowing that badness is inferior to goodness, to the end -- it only rubs the pessimism in. Familiar Letters of William James III
  • She would have been waiting now till the house was quiet, and then she would have dashed up to her room to dress, with that exquisite sense of freedom which made the whole delight of the thing, and in half an hour she might have been the _Boy_ with Israfil. The Heavenly Twins
  • It conveyed exquisitely the notion of the bouleversement de tous les sens: that state of neurasthenic excitement in which images whirled chaotically before the inward eye, impressing on the seer an overwhelming sense of their vividness and spiritual truth (Castle 159). Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_
  • The film has its visually muddy scenes, but it still exudes a stylish elegance from the exquisite bleached-out imagery of the opening credit sequence to the loungey soundtrack.
  • Even folded it was an object of exquisite design, with ornate brass hinges gleaming gold against polished rosewood. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • This tantalus is decorated with exquisitely carved exterior: on the top is a vignette comprised of three birds; a chick and the chick's parents.
  • Their manners and movements are unaffected and elegant; they dress in exquisite taste; and with a grace peculiarly their own, their manners have a fascination and witchery which is perfectly irresistible. The Englishwoman in America
  • If anything, however, the mushroom soup was even better: rich and dark, with a wonderful, warm flavour and exquisite texture.
  • Each piece is unique, an exquisite painting of a real person, done on ivory.
  • Across the gallery and down the stair -- it might have been the Golden Stair linking Near with Far -- came a score of exquisite women in all the glory of their youth, of perfect physical beauty and splendid strength and fullness of life; and the wonder was not their beauty more than a kind of dryad delicacy of that beauty, which was yet not frailty but a look of angelic strength. Romance Island
  • The Emperor at this time was Chien Lung, the best of the Manchu dynasty, a cultivated man, a patron of the arts, and an exquisite calligraphist. The Problem of China
  • Under the smart of this new desire Rosalie set the stitches of her worsted-work with exquisite precision, and hid her meditations under a little innocent air, which shammed simplicity to deceive Albert Savarus
  • Dolci's exquisite tondo has been at Kedleston since its purchase in February 1758, but has not previously been on show to the public there.
  • With looks this exquisite, we can see why. Times, Sunday Times
  • Erris is renowned for many things including its outstanding tradition in exquisite hand crafts like lace making, crochet, needlework and knitting.
  • This was not going the way she had planned, “I gave the computer eight decillion virtual hydrogen atoms, described in exquisite detail, and defined an environment with physical laws just like our own Universe, and …” Jaed’s mouth scrunched up at the look on Almod’s face. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • The furniture was stained a light buff, and the upholstering was a delicate cretonne livened by exquisite tracings of wisteria. The Flaw in the Sapphire
  • The mild, exquisitely - flavored , snow - white flesh of the mangosteen is enveloped in a gorgeous, thick, purple rind.
  • If you are a real lover of art, you will appreciate its exquisite melodies, fine librettos, marvellous arias, charming performances, as well as the beautiful costumes and makeup.
  • The exhibition will explore the world of plant and flower painting, combining exquisite scientific detail with beauty, delicacy and expressiveness.
  • Couplet is the exquisite article of folk-custom culture, which is used to celebrate, decorate and express self-cultivation . Li's couplet reflect his mind and value.
  • This is a pail-shaped receptacle of yewen wood, bound with brass bands, both inner and outer parts being kept exquisitely clean. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
  • What this suggests is that the human omnivore is exquisitely adapted to a wide range of food and diets. Times, Sunday Times
  • It starts off as a series of brush strokes in brown, red and green, but ends up as an exquisite painting imparting a beautiful luminosity.
  • Today, its exquisite towering antique stained glass windows are broken and covered in layers of dust, its walls are cracked and peeling and the weak wooden balcony cannot support a choir anymore.
  • One was a kind of thrush, the other a small dove called the ortolan, and esteemed a very great delicacy on account of its exquisite flavour. Swiss Family Robinson
  • Thus, to dismiss writer-director Darren Aronofsky's hyper-ambitious third feature The Fountain - a heady fusion of science fiction, metaphysics and a melodramatic quest for immortality both romantic and spiritual - for simply believing in its own sentimental grandiloquence is to deny one of the most exquisite and strangely moving trips to the multiplex this year. GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky.
  • We know envy as a state of exquisite tension, torment and ill-will, provoked by an overwhelming sense of inferiority, impotence and worthlessness.
  • To confuse pillagers, exquisite bas-reliefs were laid face down to camouflage them among more ordinary blocks.
  • Submarine trenches usually develop downward from depths around 6,000 m, the beginning of the hadal region, exclusive domain of highly specialized and exquisite molluscan communities.
  • It's an exquisite dish, as is the chicken, pancetta-wrapped and juicy, a side of basil-and-olive-flecked orzo complementing the herby goat-cheese filling.
  • He advanced on him only for an exquisite googly to dip and dart through the gap to bruise the off stump.
  • The characters - a horse, cat, sparrow, monkey, cat and dog - are fed vintage wine and exquisite food and are blissfully unaware of the outside world.
  • Some products on display would be necklaces, bangles, full and half-sets, pendants, coins, precious and semi-precious stones besides of course, birthstones of exquisite designs.
  • She wore a rose-dyed sacking dress, exquisitely worked under the needle so that it graced her slight figure, presented the curves as clues.
  • The Indians brought in exquisite beadwork to sell.
  • In his very brief opportunity as the fisherman, Ruodi, Anthony Dean Griffey unveiled an exquisite lyric tenor.
  • There was also a cope of exquisite grey silk on which was woven a female figure with buskined legs, wearing a short sky-blue tunic and the red Phrygian cap.
  • Much of the time exquisite artefacts are packed away in boxes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Honor thought she was the most exquisite girl she had ever seen and her heart sank lower than ever.
  • From the centre of this footstalk rises a bundle of filaments that encircle the style, stamens springing also from the insertion of the leaves of the corolla, lining it with delicate beauty and waving their slender forms with exquisite grace. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
  • And the resolution to this scene is exquisite in its chutzpah and farcical bad taste.
  • My hostess was a woman dressed in exquisite taste, friendly but politely distant.
  • The dining room is exquisitely furnished with tasteful chandeliers and wall brackets, nice view over the gardens. Times, Sunday Times
  • Exquisite food was valued by the aristocracy, therefore, one of the ways nonnoble or newly noble families could advance their social ambitions was by offering meals that were too good to refuse. Savoring The Past
  • Written by Christos N. Gage • Art by Chris Samnee • Cover by Lee Bermejo “An exquisitely creepy crime story loaded with twists. DC Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • In private settings, an exquisite image of a religious subject with multivalent textual meaning could serve all manner of eyes - Protestant, Catholic, the politically committed, the aesthetically conscious.
  • This was a performance of real quality, not for his simple goal but for his two exquisite assists for Welbeck. Times, Sunday Times
  • Alpine sunshine has sometimes followed snow to show the fells and mountains at their most exquisitely beautiful.
  • Played with a kind of wrathful quietude by the exquisite Eric Bana, Comicbookbin.com
  • There are exquisite touches, executed with extraordinary skill: the allegorically suggestive tear in the curtain; the artist's helpless dishabille; the uniquely knowing expression on the face of the central woman.
  • With simple straight lines, a very basic cubical design, ambient lighting, elegant use of wood and grand floor to ceiling glass windows, the exquisite interior certainly screams class. Small Contemporary Prefab Home : Easy to Build and Sustainable
  • Flying into this Himalayan Shangri-La, I was immediately struck by the world's highest unclimbed mountain, the exquisite temples perched precariously on cliffs, the friendly and handsome people adorned in traditional silk attire, and a healthy dose of wafting incense and chanting mantras. Chip Conley: The Happiest Place on the Planet?
  • The ravine grew more and more beautiful, and an ascent through a dark wood of arrowy cryptomeria brought us to this village exquisitely situated, where a number of miniature ravines, industriously terraced for rice, come down upon the great chasm of the Kinugawa. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
  • Bronsart exquisitely accuses our opponents of ill-will, unfairness, and calumniation. Letters
  • In this hypochondriacal or flatuous melancholy, the symptoms are so ambiguous, saith [2633] Crato in a counsel of his for a noblewoman, that the most exquisite physicians cannot determine of the part affected. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard Rizzoli From the book 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard/Rizzoli Reuter table with shagreen and ivory marquetry From the book 'Ruhlmann' by Florence Camard/Rizzoli Collectionneur chest in black lacquer No designer has come to stand for the glamorous 1920s and '30s more definitively than Jacques Émile Ruhlmann, with his exquisite marquetry of ivory and rare woods, sumptuous textiles and gleaming metal accents. All Hands on Deco
  • It was an illuminating moment of exquisite agony still vivid these many years later.
  • But Chansons d'Édith Piaf has its exquisite moments, the first tune alone, "L'accordéoniste," providing a six-minute journey from atonalism to cabaret to swing. Paul Motian Sans Piano
  • On the steel buttplate, Welch engraved a big horn sheep and a mountain goat and surrounding these two fine animals, he added his exquisite scroll along with gold line inlay.
  • This last affair, however, made me seriously uneasy, because if his exquisite sensibilities were to go the length of involving him in pot-house shindies, he would lose his name of an inoffensive, if aggravating, fool, and acquire that of a common loafer. Lord Jim
  • Their fur, feathers and skins, wonderfully textured and coloured, the symmetry of the patterns they make and the exquisite arrays of stripes and spots are there to be emulated.
  • After much searching, I finally bought an exquisite , pre-loved Irene jacket. Mary Hall: Angelina Jolie's Costumes in The Tourist Pay Homage to MGM Fashion Designer Irene Lentz
  • There is indeed a great deal of very evident brickwork, which is never fresh or loud in colour, but always burnt out, as it were, always exquisitely mild. Italian Hours
  • It may seem like a paradox to lighten a dish with crème fraîche, but a final swirl gives a tangy freshness to the navarin and draws together the disparate flavors in exquisite harmony. Stew's Spring Awakening
  • This was in the heart of the building and opened on to an exquisite patch of lawn. Times, Sunday Times
  • He turned and crossed in the one movement and O'Flynn, at the near post, volleyed an exquisite goal to climax a compelling performance.
  • He put chips under it, blocks of various sorts, bits of pasteboard, and at last went so far as to attempt an exquisite adjustment by final pieces of folded blotting-paper.
  • There are also anti-Taliban fighters from the Hazara ethnic minority who control parts of the exquisite, ravaged Bamiyan valley.
  • Adapted from Colette's eponymous novel, the film follows the affair of Lea de Lonval (Michelle Pfeiffer), a retired, luscious courtesan in her fifty's, and Cheri (Rupert Friend), the exquisite, wanton son of a rival demimondaine (Kathy Bates). Erica Abeel: The Cheatin' Heart of Cheri
  • It's exquisitely photographed, with intimate shots of flora and fauna, and a particularly mesmerizing sequence in which a rare butterfly emerges from its chrysalis.
  • Finally, in the Erechtheum the upper part or necking of the shaft is enriched with an exquisitely wrought band of floral ornament, the so-called honeysuckle pattern. A History of Greek Art
  • These exquisite, ground-hugging little flowers are the moorland pasture equivalent of woodland primroses, brought into precious bloom by a month of sunshine. Country diary: Westgate, Weardale
  • Look elegant and poised style, red brick, three - section , octagonal windows, exquisite taste can not be replaced.
  • "The rising white fluted columns supporting the two exquisite domes are special to that era, " he said.
  • At such times, all that held the royal household together was its thin veneer of ceremony and exquisite manners. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
  • The combination of these two exquisite perfumes seemed to make the boskiness more bosky. Police!!!
  • There is something inherently exquisite about Victorian chromolithography that is so compelling.
  • The shapes, crisp outlines and clear, near-obsessive glyphs are quite exquisite.
  • The exhibition displays exquisite pieces made by fusing and blowing with top quality glass powders, precious metals, lustre and leafs from different countries.
  • Behind the theatrics, there are always exquisite, utterly wearable clothes. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was also the treasurer of the Society for Italic Handwriting, his affiliation being reflected in his own exquisite copper-plate handwriting.
  • When I randomly opened the first volume in the Charing Cross bookshop, this is what I read: Her complexion was exquisitely fair; and it was a disadvantage to her beauty that the fashions of the day obliged her to hide the color and texture of her fine silver tresses under a load of powder and pomatum. The most unusual book in your house.
  • The opening rally was completed with an exquisite cross-court backhand drop from the Egyptian.
  • The singers exquisitely shape and blend each one. Times, Sunday Times
  • Whilst he still produced exquisite paintings his archaic style and the use of delineation, soon meant that he was left behind by other quattrocento artists like Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci.
  • The exquisite white marble mantel is Italian, not French, of the time of Louis XVI. The Art of Interior Decoration
  • Unweathered specimens are snow-white and constitute exquisite specimens when associated with contrasting minerals.
  • At his best, he is an exquisite everyman, for he can create, defend, and score goals.
  • This exquisitely delicate fruit quite rightly features in many sumptuous dessert recipes.
  • Many of the exquisite carvings and secret chambers found in old wooden chests and wardrobes are difficult to reproduce.
  • Some shall rise to the everlasting burnings of God; for God dwells in everlasting burnings and some shall rise to the damnation of their own filthiness, which is as exquisite a torment as the lake of fire and brimstone. Latest Articles
  • You'll sail along Alaska's exquisite Inside Passage stopping in Ketchikan, BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
  • Our country has the pride of having master craftsmen who carve out exquisite products with their deft hands.
  • Each guest bedroom has an individual design; all are exquisite and huge fun.
  • Let's see ... pornography has been strictly and totally off limits for kids since forever, but letting them virtually hack other people, monsters, and aliens to bloody shreds in exquisite, life-like detail and with the most vicious weapons imaginable is (ho hum) tolerated, if not exactly condoned? High court accepts case over violent video games
  • I never imagined that Sichuan dishes could be made in such an elegant and exquisite style.
  • Absolutely pure, delicately medicated, exquisitely perfumed, CUTICURA SOAP produces the whitest, clearest skin and softest hands, and prevents inflammation and clogging of the pores, the cause of pimples, blackheads and most complexional disfigurations, while it admits of no comparison with the best of other skin soaps, and rivals in delicacy the most noted and expensive of toilet and nursery soaps. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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  • On the left one giant specimen of amole, reared from a base of exquisitely waving leaves, ran up the side of the drawing and broke into an airy and graceful head of gold-hearted white lilies. Her father`s daughter
  • Mirah's farewell look and words -- their exquisite appealingness stirring in him that deep-laid care for womanhood which had begun when his own lip was like a girl's -- her hold on his feeling had helped him to be blameless in word and deed under the difficult circumstances we know of. Daniel Deronda
  • In ‘Summertime,’ sung with an exquisite teetering between the operatics of the written score and jazz inspiration, Hendricks shows that her operatic voice is as gorgeous as ever.
  • And we hoped a deep roar would bellow from a gleaming example of exquisite design, superior build quality and space-age technology. The Sun
  • Sections devoted to elaborately beaded, exquisitely embroidered and sleekly tailored garments in black and white, red, greige (Armani's trademark, a subtle mixture of grey and beige) or romantic floral prints, are accompanied by text comparing them to the paintings of Ad Reinhardt, Rothko and Matisse.

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