In other words, the artist's aim is not to reproduce the facts which make up the mass of our ordinary and undigested life, but to substitute for the dishevelled commonplace the "choiceness" of an ordered interpretation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personality in Literature] Reference

Its choiceness was great, but was not duly guarded.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Stairs] Reference

Through their choiceness well kenned; and whiles a king's thane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference

His flow of ideas was not more remarkable than the choiceness and vigor of his expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference

The sand, or hard shell, or as they are sometimes called little necks, are next in choiceness, and then come the Pismo beach clams, noted for their flavor and enormous size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference

His 2002 vote against the Induced Infant Liability Act which would allow doctors to administer aid to infants born alive after a failed abortion should answer any question one might have about Obama's pro-choiceness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama backtracks on late-term abortions.] Reference

Such as these they flaunt not, but wear for choiceness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lore of Proserpine] Reference

Ani was much lauded for the wonderful choiceness of the liquor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

She had an instinct for choiceness like a hummingbird, darting here and there for sweetness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lovely Lady] Reference

Its polish, color and choiceness of language have been the admiration and model of later Castilian poets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Spanish Lyrics] Reference

But English luxury, which at first allured me by its choiceness and delicacy, proved to be mechanical also.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lily of the Valley] Reference

"Real" enough the fare is, in all conscience; but, as usual with realities of that sort, it wants choiceness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Change in the Village] Reference

There was no denying she was a nice girl; and yet "nice" did not rightfully convey the sense of her choiceness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Their Alcove] Reference

One of his admirers told me that the great merit of his style was his choiceness and aptness in his use of adjectives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Essays] Reference

Since my last I have received a packet of books & pamphlets, the choiceness of which testifies that they come from you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters] Reference

His effects are produced by the freshness rather than the choiceness of his terms, and by his truth to nature and good taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

Space forbids the presentation of Dr. PRESTON'S valuable remarks entire; an extract or two must indicate their choiceness of character.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman's Advocate Vol. III] Reference

Beddoes 'genius was essentially lyrical: he had imagination, the gift of style, the mastery of rhythm, a strange choiceness and curiosity of phrase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Figures of Several Centuries] Reference

At dinner he ate without noticing the choiceness of the cooking, and he drank several glasses of champagne before he remarked the excellence of the wine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference

"For he was wont to say," thus runs the passage, "that whatever might be accomplished by the wit of man with a certain choiceness, that indeed was next to the divine.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett] Reference

However, I cheerfully give them credit for the translation, but am free to maintain that the elegance of diction, force of expression, and choiceness of synonyms are my own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grain Ship] Reference

The dinner was one of those which are given nowhere but in Paris by these great female spendthrifts, for the choiceness of their preparations often surprise the most fastidious of guests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatrix] Reference

He was a sort of catholic Manfred, and unstained by crime, carrying his choiceness into his faith, melting the snows by the fires of a sealed volcano, holding converse with a star seen by himself alone!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honorine] Reference

Dedham and Paul Revere potteries made near Boston should be mentioned, for although of less costly type they are doing much to set a standard of perfection of form, choiceness of coloring, and fitness of design.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Porcelain] Reference

For it is false to suppose that a child's sense of beauty is dependent on any choiceness or special fineness, in the objects which present themselves to it, though this indeed comes to be the rule with most of us in later life; earlier, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools] Reference

In the miscellaneous prose and poetry of this period there is lacking the free, exulting, creative impulse of the elder generation, but there is a soberer feeling and a certain scholarly choiceness which commend themselves to readers of bookish tastes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference

In the miscellaneous prose and poetry of this period there is lacking the free, exulting, creative impulse of the elder generation, but there are a soberer feeling and a certain scholarly choiceness which commend themselves to readers of bookish tastes.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Chaucer to Tennyson] Reference

But my “pro-choiceness” doesn’t mean that I’m not making moral judgments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claiming Stigmas and Taboos as your own] Reference

(He paused a moment, probably to allow me to observe the choiceness of his diction.) ‘They positively visit each other but seldom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Desperate Character] Reference

Hence arose, as that vast number of his books, so the choiceness and rarity of the greatest part of them; and that of all kinds, and in all sorts of learning, "&c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance] Reference

Edge which has lots of good new stuff reasoning through our emerging "Third Culture" of humanity - maybe that's the phrase that respects our pro-lifeness and pro-choiceness at the same time?).    From Wordnik.com.  [Cocking A Snook!] Reference

We concur in the remark of our minister, Mr. Hassaurek, that "their natural dignity, gracefulness, and politeness, their entire self-possession, their elegant but unaffected bearing, and the choiceness of their language, would enable them to make.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference

A moment, probably to allow me to observe the choiceness of his diction.) 'They positively visit each other but seldom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Desperate Character and Other Stories] Reference

"choiceness," "comeliness," "graciousness" -- when he visualises or focusses his object.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personality in Literature] Reference