It is in the salon that the over-refinement called preciosity budded and bloomed. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
We shouldn't be making up ways to accommodate their religious preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
There is no forced sentimentality about his work, and no parade of preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry] Reference
It was quiet and simple, an escape from the pomp and preciosity of the K mansion. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare]
Huxley and Fisher were great naturalists and understandably allergic to preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
It is difficult to write about love and hope without falling into the pit of preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-04-01] Reference
It is hard to avoid preciosity in books about books, but here Funke pulls off the feat with vigor. From Wordnik.com. [Inkheart: Summary and book reviews of Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.] Reference
There we ran into one of the biggest obstacles, because a tendency toward preciosity, excessive selectivity, developed. From Wordnik.com. [Fidel Castro Addresses Santiago Working Meeting] Reference
Somehow, Poussin avoids both pedantry and preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
Dexterity, often degenerating into preciosity, p. 224. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
The meticulous preciosity of the lawyer and the logician. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English] Reference
Her very daintiness and preciosity of speech indicated it. From Wordnik.com. [The Blazed Trail] Reference
Others be taken as touching the preciosity of their bodies. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Legend, vol. 6] Reference
Worst of all there is the self – conscious preciosity of Songs of. From Wordnik.com. [The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers] Reference
His worst fault, however, lies in his obscurity and preciosity of diction. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
Le Gallienne abandoned his preciosity, and the group began to disintegrate. From Wordnik.com. [Modern British Poetry] Reference
Their demonstrable craft and frequent self-regarding preciosity is wearying. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Failing this experience, the soul tends somewhat to levity and to preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
In the United States, as everyone knows, there is no such preciosity visible. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8. American Spelling. 6. The Treatment of Loan-Words] Reference
The dainty trifles of the school of preciosity fluttered at least during the sunshine of a day. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
They were always travestied in the interests of romance or of caricature, burlesque or preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
It was the time not only of preciosity, but of the Fronde, with its turbulent adventures and fantastic chivalry. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
A comic, convivial, burlesque or picaresque literature became, as it were, a parody of the literature of preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
"But I do not want to give up the little rifle entirely," she went on, with dainty preciosity, watching him closely. From Wordnik.com. [Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest] Reference
It is only that, in seeking to compensate himself for his infecundity, he has fallen into the deep sea of preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
Guez de Balzac, a little lacking in ideas yet an extremely good writer, though but little detached from preciosity, as. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Literature] Reference
He has been described as the last lyrical poet of his age, and the first of the poetical exponents of the new preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference
It suffered inevitably through the influences of a taste, refined it is true, but which already inclined toward mannerisms and preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Painters A Critical Study] Reference
“preciosity,” of which the new book was not destitute. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Tennyson] Reference
A certain contemptuous preciosity on the edge of destruction as they herd their brutish multitudes. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest] Reference
Before you pick on it: extreme preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » A Challenge To Jonah Goldberg] Reference
Salinger wrote decorative pieces of preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose?] Reference
But something new is on the way, a new preciosity. From Wordnik.com. [MTVu's Poet Laureate] Reference
Extraordinary preciosity, p. 229. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
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