finical

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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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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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Sometimes the weft of his spinning loosens, is overdrawn or finical.

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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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If, he says, the Whigs are too finical to join heartily with the popular advocates, the Reformers are too cold.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir