- on
academic pretension,
female education, and préciosité (French for
preciosity), it was one of his most po****r
comedies and the last of his
great plays...
-
workshops of the day,
heavily ensconced in the
maniera tradition. The
preciosity in
Jacques Callot's
minute engravings seem to
belie a much
larger scale...
- wrote; "The most
overrated underrated group in America. All of CSNY's
preciosity with none of the inspiration, all of bluegr****'s
ramifications with none...
-
sense was a
provincial echo of the
Chinese 18th century's
smooth ornate preciosity."
Since the Yuan dynasty,
Tibet was
administered as part of China, but...
-
Christgau wrote: "Separating the
jokes from the ****es,
eschewing atmospheric preciosity, and
climaxing with two
great pieces of
lovesong schmaltz that define...
-
ensuing love story, Hazzard's
moral refinement occasionally veers toward preciosity, but such
lapses are
counterbalanced by her
bracing conviction that we...
- book). In
spite of the
sumptuosity of
their costumes and jewels, and the
preciosity of
their golden halos, Witz
depicts them with the
realistic faces of young...
- he
brings in
technical terms redolent of the camp. Second, archaism,
preciosity, and
flowery words. Further, the work
shows evidence of its
having been...
- (artificial
behaviour designed to
impress i.e. Takalluf) in
Speech (aka
Preciosity) and to Use Wild
Words and
Words of
Difficult Grammar when Addressing...
- restless, anxious, distorted,
ambivalent forms,
attached to
intellectualist preciosities,
characteristics that
reflected the
dilemmas of the
century and define...
