tastefulness

Example Sentences

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In some chapters, Goodman’s tastefulness is so extreme as to be opaque.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2023

What was shocking about it was its tastefulness, on, for instance, a giant dropped – waist full skirt that contrasted stylishly with a bodice in ultramarine, royal blue and a flash of orange.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2020

What was shocking about it was its tastefulness, for instance on a giant dropped-waist full skirt that contrasted stylishly with a bodice in ultramarine, royal blue and flash of orange.

From Washington Times • Jan. 20, 2020

The redesign aims for the sort of well-appointed tastefulness that Philip Johnson spent much of his career gleefully skewering.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2016

But proofs of a spontaneous tendency to civilization may be gleaned, as I conceive, from the grace and tastefulness of their dresses—the beautiful lodges many of the Tribes build—and other indications, &c.

From Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race by Johnes, Arthur James