daintiness
Example Sentences
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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
Yet despite her physical daintiness in comparison to Mr. Driver’s looming heft, her Anna always seems in charge, like a nanny with an unruly, overgrown toddler.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019
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 other cars’ designs revel too much in their own daintiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2016
Some of them had separated their money, folded the bills around their fingers, clenched the fingers into fists, so the neat ends of the money stuck out in a blend of daintiness and violence.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
