Example Sentences

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Under Rouvali, the second movement was intimate and sober, but it gradually relaxed, even to a charming daintiness; the third, never rushing the eager rhythms, reached elegance.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2023

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

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

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 two dollars she hated to release turned out to be well spent, for Teapot did have a fracture, although the doctor said poor diet had contributed substantially to the daintiness of his bones.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison