daintiness
Example Sentences
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Spellling — real name: Chrystia “Tia” Cabral — knows how to sing in delicate whispers, but her elocution can contradict that daintiness.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2022
Throughout her career, critics and audiences admired her dancing for its daintiness, and critics consistently noted her charm and femininity in their reviews.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2020
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
The other cars’ designs revel too much in their own daintiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2016
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
