How To Use Preciosity In A Sentence
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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
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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
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The wit, light approach and mastery of touch, scale and color balance the figurines’ rather foppish preciosity.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We shouldn't be making up ways to accommodate their religious preciosity.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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All of this has saddled art songs with a reputation for preciosity and snobbishness.
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Huxley and Fisher were great naturalists and understandably allergic to preciosity.
A Year on the Wing
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They are related to similarly proportioned glassware made in the 1890s, but the delicate tints and precarious attenuation are markers of preciosity and refinement.
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This earlier reading had been grounded in a concern that the use of ideas ‘borrowed’ from other disciplines might make poetry ‘dependent on intellectual fashions and encourage preciosity.’
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Artifice and ballad preciosity have been cultivated more sedulously in the south, with a learned use of the repetend, archaism of style, and imitation of the quaint mediaeval habit of mind.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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Other times I want to jump up and down on them until they are in shreds and tatters, cursing the preciosity of it all.
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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
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This style, which is called rococo, corresponds to what in literature is known as preciosity; but towards the middle of the eighteenth century classical forms were revived, especially in the works of the famous architects Vanvitelli and Juvara, while Canova restored its simplicity to sculpture, combining the study of nature with that of classic forms.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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It is only that, in seeking to compensate himself for his infecundity, he has fallen into the deep sea of preciosity.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
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In place of the old loose-footedness there is set up a preciosity which, in one direction, takes the form of unyielding affectations in the spoken language, and in another form shows itself in the heavy Johnsonese of current English writingthe Jargon denounced by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in his Cambridge lectures.
Chapter 1. Introductory. 5. The General Character of American English
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Karen Kohlhaas's direction plays wholeheartedly into the leaden preciosity of the text and manages to make an already dreadful play even more abominable.
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Here let me enter my protest against the literary preciosity which derives the word from (_un_) _chanté_ and spells it 'chanty' -- in other words, against the gratuitous assumption that unlettered British sailors derived one of the commonest words in their vocabulary from a foreign source.
The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
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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
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The bijou effect of the original could easily translate into unwitting preciosity, and one appreciates the translator's wariness of plangent excess.
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It is hard to avoid preciosity in books about books, but here Funke pulls off the feat with vigor ....
Inkheart: Summary and book reviews of Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
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But any preciosity is overruled by the film's emotional intelligence, as when George inhales the smell of a stranger's Jack Russell that evokes the dogs he owned with his lover.
Erica Abeel: The Beautiful and the Buzzed
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For all the preciosity of its product, the perfume industry generates annual revenues of $31 billion; 170,000 bottles of perfume are sold every day in France -- and 170,000 Frenchmen can't be wrong.
Sniffing Out the Next Big Fragrance
