How To Use preciosity In A Sentence
- It is in the salon that the over-refinement called preciosity budded and bloomed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- A tiny pale print of a horse and coach in the rain 1899-1900 epitomizes the preciosity of his photo-secession phase. From the Shadows of Giants
- The wit, light approach and mastery of touch, scale and color balance the figurines’ rather foppish preciosity.
- Although slightly tinged with pedantism and preciosity, its freshness, its grace, its inspiration and sincerity, give it a flavour almost of primitive art. The French Revolution A Short History
- Paglia (correctly) emphasizes the way in which English is constantly changing -- which makes it an ever-renewable source of new kinds of writing -- but she ought to consider this when elevating the Romantic poets '"living speech" over "dense allusiveness and preciosity. Poetry
- Although he is increasingly reviled these days for his purported stylistic preciosity, John Updike remains a writer I am able to read with pleasure because he successfully avoids inflicting such damage. Point of View in Fiction
- Any poetry removed from popular diction will inevitably become as esoteric as 18th-century satire (perfected by Alexander Pope), whose dense allusiveness and preciosity drove the early Romantic poets into the countryside to find living speech again. Poetry
- We shouldn't be making up ways to accommodate their religious preciosity. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- All of this has saddled art songs with a reputation for preciosity and snobbishness.
- Huxley and Fisher were great naturalists and understandably allergic to preciosity. A Year on the Wing
