The satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
finespun distinctions. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Ah! this is no finespun tale; it is being worked out every year in our country, all over the world. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
Marquis Conrade, thy wit begins to halt; I will trust thy finespun measures no longer, but will try my own. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
He was dressed for the festival in a finespun linen shirt and woolen hose and a vest still decorated with a wilted flower. From Wordnik.com. [My Demon's Kiss] Reference
"Darling Death shouted in his ear, his ear made to record the least, the most finespun of worm-cries and dragonfly-jubilations" -- Levertov. From Wordnik.com. [Earworms, Decent Intervals, and Quagmires] Reference
A kickball fell from her finespun fingers, bouncing disinterestedly away at an oblique angle, a distant shadow from a 767 drifting across its path. From Wordnik.com. [Again] Reference
Though finespun dreams had lulled the very soul, Our peace of mind was shattered: Beyond the palings, Europe's children hold aloft Their begging-bowl. From Wordnik.com. [The Nobel Peace Prize 1965 - Presentation Speech] Reference
And for one I do not intend to be turned from this course by finespun constitutional quibbles or by the plausible pretexts of associated or corporate wealth and power. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
The finespun speculations of the philosophers and the impractical dreams of the artist make small appeal to them; the world they live in is a sharply defined and clearly lighted and rather limited place. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
The icy floral space is delicate and finespun like the most exquisite snowflake, and includes winter trees by Julia Hathor , owner and creator of the four sim Creative Fantasy Home & Garden teleport directly from here. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
The whole street had gone drab and hushed and indistinct around their large, quiet and flushed figures, the finespun light of their garments stirring about them as if the celestial fabric were subject to the invisible currents of the air which men cannot feel. From Wordnik.com. [Vittorio, The Vampire]
It may be that the strength of well-formed habits stands opposed to the change, but, on the other hand, every musical instinct latent, or partly awakened, is becoming alert and proving the truth of your teaching better and faster than can any finespun reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference
Now, so finespun a discussion of intricate and psychological subtleties is mildly interesting presumably to middle-aged scholars, but I submit that a half truth that needs so much explanation and so many admissions before it can be made safe or actual, is a rather dangerous thing to offer to adolescence or to a congregation of average men and women. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
Emerson had no use for such finespun theories of duty, and the matter was too near home for. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
A language cannot tolerate indefinitely a finespun distinction hinged to forms so easily confused. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1] Reference
He was touched anew by the pathos in the boy, whose nature was a light web of finespun golden cords thrilling to any breath of fancy. From Wordnik.com. [A Hoosier Chronicle] Reference
It was from Spaulding, and as he read it all his finespun theories vanished and once more he was adrift on an uncharted sea without a landmark in sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Avalanche] Reference
Chance is the explanation which comes to me first, till I reflect on the finespun chain which brought me to that particular spot and those particular words. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Fear] Reference
Much as when one pushes on into daylight through the filmy finespun work of a spider, that respectable insect looks about, considering where he shall begin anew. From Wordnik.com. [Say and Seal, Volume II] Reference
The foremost speaker of the House showed himself worthy of his reputation ... much as there was to lament in the too radical tone of his often finespun argumentation. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859] Reference
The experience of the heroines of anti-slavery show that no finespun sentimentalism in regard to woman's position in the clouds ever exempt her from the duties or penalties of a citizen. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference
However finespun the conceptions may be which the historical critic uses in working over his materials, the final goal of such study is always to create out of the mass of events a vivid portrait of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
Their finespun distinctions of deeds lawful and unlawful were spiders 'webs, and His act of mercy flew high above the webs, like some fair winged creature glancing in the sunshine, while the spider sits in his crevice balked. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke] Reference
With influences including The Velvet Underground, Belle & Sebastian, Tom Waits and Neutral Milk Hotel and a fragile and finespun sound that floats like finest chiffon on a warm summer breeze, Dancer vs Politician is a perfect antidote for the world wide financial turmoil, a bolthole to escape from the wall to wall news coverage of a world spinning wildly out of control. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil Has The Best Tuna] Reference
"But what would I be doing with any such finespun policies?. From Wordnik.com. [Figures of Earth] Reference
McBryde raised his eyebrows, murmuring: “A bit too finespun. From Wordnik.com. [A Passage To India]
Her gaze slipped lower down his profile and she couldn’t help noticing that the finespun fabric of his drawstring pants clung patchily to his damp flanks in a way that suggested he wore little or nothing underneath. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress for a Weekend]
And now the Wilson Administration, by throwing into the waste basket all the finespun theories with which it had been embarrassing the Allied cause since August 4, 1914, accepted ” and accepted joyously ” his point of view. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Letters of Walter H Page]
“Oh, too finespun policy,” said the Grand Master. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
"Erdag Goknar deserves praise for the cool, smooth English in which he has rendered Pamuk's finespun sentences, passionate art appreciations, sly pedantic debates. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
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