finical

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Slow-painting, finical Grant Wood spent months boning up on costumes, background for Parson Weems' Fable, then did a full-scale preliminary drawing of it.

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Canadians have grown heartily weary of the King.'s man they have now, dull, finical Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough.

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About his productions he was superfinical, but not primarily for art's sake; being finical seemed to pay.

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He still writes perfectly, that is to say, with great solicitude for the antique rhythm and consonance of his finical phrases, but his passion for beautiful happenings has been lapped by the irony of surfeit.

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So, when that finical appetite of mine would suddenly cry out for oysters, I could think of nothing else.

From Life on the Stage by Morris, Clara