preciosity

• It was the time not only of preciosity, but of the Fronde, with its turbulent adventures and fantastic chivalry. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• Traces of preciosity are found in some of the earliest sentences; that infirmity was soon overcome by La Rochefoucauld, and his utterances become as clear and as hard as diamond He died at the age of sixty-seven, in the arms of Bossuet. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• The danger of this form is a certain preciosity which the author has skilfully evaded, and the influence of Mr. Galsworthy is nowhere too clearly apparent. —  The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• 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
• M. Moreau-Vauthier is not perhaps a modern Cellini; he has certainly never produced anything that could be classed with the "Perseus" of the Loggia de' Lanzi, or even with the Fontainebleau "Diana;" but he does more than anyone else to keep alive the tradition of Florentine preciosity, and about everything he does there is something delightful Still the fantastic has not made much headway in the Institute, and it is so foreign to the French genius, which never tolerates it after it has ceased to be novel, that it probably never will. —  French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture

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