daintiness

Example Sentences

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Margot Robbie’s sheer florals were sweet but not cloying, with a steely color palette that toned down their daintiness.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2021

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a man not known for daintiness in the mud-wallows of politics, once ordered Bossie fired from a congressional staff for playing fast and loose with the truth.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2020

Yet despite her physical daintiness in comparison to Mr. Driver’s looming heft, her Anna always seems in charge, like a nanny with an unruly, overgrown toddler.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2019

After her debut, a Time magazine critic described her work as having “the daintiness of miniatures, the vivid reds and yellows of Mexican tradition and the playfully bloody fancy of an unsentimental child.”

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2018

Some of them had separated their money, folded the bills around their fingers, clenched the fingers into fists, so the neat ends of the money stuck out in a blend of daintiness and violence.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison