As applied to Avedon, the key word is "perfect," for the exquisite stylization of his compositions produces a world of ethereal, almost impossible beauty.
Vinyl is sold as a signifier, the perfect complement to the exquisite taste of your furniture or the pictures on your wall.
Low point: "About 20 times a day, when I wish I had the perfect clarity and the exquisite ability to synthesise and represent.
Mount Street is a perfect microcosm of the exquisite, sometimes airless, increasingly separate world that How to Spend It has helped construct for the rich since the 60s.
Culinary literature from cookbooks to magazine spreads to travel guides is chockablock with instructions for making, seeking out, and strategizing the consumption of the supreme patty, the ideal garnish, the perfect bun, and the exquisite gestalt of the meat sandwich entire.
She would hear it in his voice, and she would know that she was losing everything, all the perfect, exquisite moments that she had made with him.
No, it's not exactly done with mirrors, but with the perfect pitch, exquisite pacing and meticulous plotting of a genuine master at this game.
Everything about it is perfect including the introductions from Paul Howard and Michael Rosen, the exquisite pictures and the wonderful choice of poems.
Then I looked at the exquisite cake, with its perfect ripples of cream and jewel-like fruits.
When he's in his obligatory neutral manual-writer mode, Rees describes the exquisite intricacies of the perfect pencil point as lucidly as an expert should; if you're one of the four people in the English-speaking world who really care how to sharpen pencils, you'll find out.
A profoundly tender painting from 1890 of a child curled comfortably into a woman's body, plump little limbs concisely echoed in the pale pink curves of the water jug behind, the exquisite draughtsmanship held in perfect balance with the fine rose and blue palette, might almost prefigure Picasso.
