daintiness

• “Yes, he weighs 75 pounds, but he flicks his forefeet with a certain daintiness, bends what I guess are his wrists with a certain elegance.”

  The Washington Post: Dog days of autumn

• “She had a certain daintiness about her, too, in her way of dressing – even in the way she did her hair – and in her walk, which made the women say with certain resentment, that Mrs. Paine would like to be "dressy.”

  Purple Springs

• “What a difference in "daintiness" a different boot can make eh!”

  wench77 Diary Entry

• “In her thin supple figure there was still just the suspicion of incomplete development, which is in itself a fascination; and her country attire, the well-cut brown tweed ulster, the cloth cap from beneath which many little waves of fair silky hair had escaped, the trim gloves and short skirts -- the most insignificant article of her attire -- all seemed to bespeak that peculiar and subtle daintiness which is at the same time the sweetest and the hardest to define of nature's gifts to women.”

  The New Tenant

• “In a breath, or the half of a breath, Graham saw the whole breathless situation, realized that the white wonderful creature was a woman, and sensed the smallness and daintiness of her despite her gladiatorial struggles.”

  CHAPTER IX

• “But it was a robustness in a finer than the wonted sense, a vigorous daintiness, it might be called, which gave an impression of virility with none of the womanly left out.”

  Amateur Night

• “Vivien Leigh, he wrote, approached the role of Cleopatra "with the daintiness of a debutante called upon to dismember a stag.”

  The Washington Post: A challenging role for a complex thespian

• “To the eye, it seemed almost that one could see through the pink daintiness of fingers, hand, wrist, and forearm, neck and cheek.”

  CHAPTER XIV

• “Even the tone was strange, marked by a kind of weird delicacy, a daintiness of approach, a courtesy so elaborate I thought at some points commission members were spoofing each other.”

  The Wall Street Journal: After the Crash, a Crashing Bore

• “Two families of artists lived in these buildings, which were too small for their perennially expanding minds, but were loved for their almost human daintiness.”

  Fictionaut: The Whole Earth

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