| All of this has saddled art songs with a reputation for preciosity and snobbishness. |
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| Other times I want to jump up and down on them until they are in shreds and tatters, cursing the preciosity of it all. |
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| Their stylized elegance, gay preciosity, and clear, limpid texture characterize all of Landini's songs. |
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| Karen Kohlhaas's direction plays wholeheartedly into the leaden preciosity of the text and manages to make an already dreadful play even more abominable. |
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| They are related to similarly proportioned glassware made in the 1890s, but the delicate tints and precarious attenuation are markers of preciosity and refinement. |
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| Their demonstrable craft and frequent self-regarding preciosity is wearying. |
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| The bijou effect of the original could easily translate into unwitting preciosity, and one appreciates the translator's wariness of plangent excess. |
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| Free schools multiplied in the land, and the schoolmarm revealed all her immemorial preciosity. |
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| An effete culture devoted itself to philology, archaism, and preciosity. |
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| The enluminure thereafter gave rise to the miniature on ivory, characteristic from its preciosity and its convex framework, this art of the windows can offer the same possibilities of command as enluminure. |
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| The technological accuracy in the manufacturing, industrial process, the respect of the environmental resources come realized through the preciosity of the finished product. |
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| He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent. |
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| Racinian poetic language represents preciosity at its best: the intense and monstrous nature of frustrated passion is thrown into relief by the cool, elegant, and understated formulations that carry it. |
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