"But see if you can understand: my conscience is not very fine-spun; still, I have one.

And underlying all this was a fine-spun thread of something akin to defiance.

Sevanna with her hair like fine-spun gold, her clear emerald eyes.

She was starkly beautiful, with hair like fine-spun iron, and stern purpose on her visage.

The fine-spun social complexities of Wharton's novels tend to turn into soap opera on film and stage.

The silence drew out into a fine-spun thread, like floating gossamer, drifting without tension.

He had hair like fine-spun platinum.

That little coldly purposeful face, more perfect than any cameo, with its dark, fine-spun doll's hair.

Mr. Dillahunt is too fine-spun a figure for the philistine Moses.

Something in me broke as I stared down at her, at the exquisite face in its frame of fine-spun hair.

Moonlight gave the night a crisp patina of old silver, as if the darkness itself were a work of fine-spun craft.

"No," Lois said, and slipped a lock of Natalie's fine-spun auburn hair through her fingers.

And yet some of the writing and acting is so fine-spun that it smoothes the cruder storylines.

Her fine-spun white hair was soft around her face, nested in the old-fashioned way, with pins against the back of her head.

He stared in guilty fascination at the fine-spun mass of dark hair which partially concealed her face, until the candle guttered and went out.

But they and the script wind up having to reach for big comic and tear-jerking effects that rip the play's fine-spun charm.

Her hair was like fine-spun platinum, with the upstanding ears adorned with sparkling red jewels.

A bowing attendant handed us each a thick cotton towel and robes of fine-spun linen at the door to the changing-room.

He found her useful in assisting him to find his way through the sticky mass of fine-spun cobweb that was the elven version of government.

-nothing but some fine-spun theories.

Moonlight filtered through the garden window into the bedchamber, the fine-spun linens soft and welcoming, scented with dried herbs.

Her fine-spun yellow shawl had slipped from her shoulders down to her elbows and looked like a pair of translucent golden wings.

Competency, expertise - nerves like fine-spun filaments of platinum, joints like neatly mashed gears and stainless-steel ball bearings.

But most of the show, which has a book by James Magruder and has been directed by Michael Mayer, is anything but fine-spun.

When she showed up in a supporting role in last year's Encores presentation of "Call Me Madam," her particular, fine-spun charm shone more clearly.