Ergo finickiness = unattractive; adaptability = hot. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Ali Binazir: How to Irritate Men] Reference
Now they were paying the price for their finickiness. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Famous]
For all his finickiness, Deric understood something about architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Timegod's World]
That the end product of this finickiness is utterly delicious, and even well worth four dollars, is not something I would dispute. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Henry: Of Greek Keys and Coffee Geeks] Reference
But even on its own terms -- as an attempted insight into Obama's alleged finickiness or his supposed distance from the Applebee's set -- it doesn't make sense. From Wordnik.com. [John McQuaid: Dowd: More Big Macs for Barack] Reference
It is mostly lost in a strange period of reading finickiness, back when I was obsessed with Dumas and wanted everyone to run around with swords and feathered hats. From Wordnik.com. [before bed mutterings] Reference
This is such a believable yet unusual finickiness, I was unsurprised to learn that Gaiman based the trait on his own son, Mike, who refused to eat elaborate dishes when he was young. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: Coraline] Reference
But the relentless focus here is on character, which is unusual in an academic satire -- Pnin's finickiness, his drab researches, his lurches toward love and especially his awkwardness in everything from speaking the English language to putting on his overcoat. From Wordnik.com. [Satires of Academic Life That Sit at the Head of the Class] Reference
Bubble in theaters and on DVD, and with issues of piracy and plain old viewer finickiness troubling Hollywood suits, this kind of thing could become more common. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
Buyer remorse, buyer finickiness, buyer flakiness, and just plain old cold feet existed to a far lesser degree in the harsher buying environment of 2007 than in the buyer's dream market of today. From Wordnik.com. [Austin Bloggers: Austin Metablog] Reference
And he knew a quick stirring of gratitude that he had found this girl who understood so well, who saw the verities as he saw them and had neither laugh nor sneer nor impatience for his finickiness. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Toys] Reference
Like every emotion it is only in part adapted to our lives, and in those people where it becomes a prominent emotion it is a great mischief worker, subordinating life to finickiness and hindering the growth of generous feeling. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
My Mom is part of a few freecycle groups in Iowa as a way to help out different internationals in our hometown (Isn't she cool!) and she received a notice from one moderator who let the group know that they were fed up with the freecycle rules and finickiness by moving over to the ReUseIt Network. From Wordnik.com. [Frugal For Life] Reference
Stevenson's narrowness, allied to a quaint and occasionally just a wee pedantic finickiness, as we may call it -- an over - elaborate, almost tricky play with mere words and phrases, was in so far alien to the very highest -- he was too often like a man magnetised and moving at the dictates of some outside influence rather than according to his own freewill and as he would. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference
They had inherited other, less desirable traits as well: Richard’s ultra-sensitiveness, his finickiness (what they would and would not eat, what they chose or did not choose to wear) his Irish uppishness. From Wordnik.com. [The End of a Childhood] Reference
It would make a great difference in the drainage, but a new plowman might think this finickiness and just go ahead and plow all of it north and south, or all of it east and west and this would result in a lower yield -- some parts of the field would get soggy and the wheat might get a rust, and other parts drain too readily, letting the ground become parched and break into cakes, all of which might be prevented. From Wordnik.com. [Dust] Reference
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