finical
Example Sentences
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He still writes perfectly, that is to say, with great solicitude for the antique rhythm and consonance of his finical phrases, but his passion for beautiful happenings has been lapped by the irony of surfeit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes the weft of his spinning loosens, is overdrawn or finical.
From Time Magazine Archive
In an adept supporting cast, Fred Tiden is outstanding as the finical son-in-law who cannot bear to have small children tumbling about him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slow-painting, finical Grant Wood spent months boning up on costumes, background for Parson Weems' Fable, then did a full-scale preliminary drawing of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
He seemed magnanimous towards Gwen, in spite of her finical delicacy.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
