preciosity

There were those who accused him of a certain preciosity.

There may be people out there to whom such preciosity matters.

Second was a talent for elegance without glibness or preciosity.

Matching food with wine is a melange of common sense, innocent fun and preciosity.

The handling throughout workmanlike, with some four or five touches of preciosity, which I regret.

Despite its occasional preciosity, the method works well because the facts are delivered in a light-handed way.

Several of the small abstract paintings here seem to be largely about preciosity of manufacture.

Unfortunately, "Small Gate" soon became a disconcerting mixture of authority and preciosity.

Lockhart hated all affectation and "preciosity," of which the new book was not destitute.

His dramatic works, though effective on the stage, are disfigured by extravagant incidents and preciosity of diction.

What he offered was not the rarefaction and preciosity of early Pater, but a reconsidered estheticism.

Mr. Andoe sometimes displays nothing more than preciosity.

Their demonstrable craft and frequent self-regarding preciosity is wearying.

What Mr. Albee does is aggravate it with preciosity.

Baricco's preciosity detracts from his book's modest pleasures.

And when Malcomson has nothing new to say he tends to substitute literary preciosity for substance, a fault that nearly undid his two previous books.

Julie herself was responsible for a good deal of the preciosity for which the Hôtel was later ridiculed.

But their descendant has adopted their veneer of preciosity while abandoning the tough and tragic realism behind it.

But barely-under-control preciosity is the message conveyed by this selection, and it is a persona that wears thin fast.

Unfortunately, however, the lurid shocks mount, and Anna's language never loses its post-Romantic preciosity.

The problem in her case is between simple, straightforward materials and stripped-down poetic aims on the one hand, and preciosity on the other.

Those five months had been a microcosm of the era itself-naive, flirtatious, formal to the point of preciosity, and romantic.

The preciosity in Jacques Callot's minute engravings seem to belie a much larger scale of action.

Mr. Loukos said this juxtaposition "subverts any possible sense of preciosity that could have resulted from using nothing but Monteverdi."

But this last show of the soon to be reconstructed Bowne Theater does Anouilh in with archness and preciosity.