Sentence examples for To a nicety from inspiring English sources
adverb
To a fine point, with great exactness or accuracy.
The direction and structure of his interpretations is judged to a nicety.
The playing of the soft passages was charming, and such rhythm as the music possesses was emphasised to a nicety.
Most of the cast do pretty sterling work, with Lewis in particular judging his gun-happy working toff to a nicety.
So one can readily believe the role is essentially Pickfordian, requiring only the continuance of the "rags" for an additional half reel to have it fit "our Mary" to a nicety.
And little wonder these sons later feel estranged from the man, especially after he sires a child with a much younger mistress after 31 years of marriage to their long-suffering mother — a child who, save for the sweetness of his disposition, resembles their father to a nicety.
The jury must take into account that you cannot be expected to "weigh to a nicety" what you should do to defend yourself – and in effect, you get the benefit of the doubt if you only did what you honestly and instinctively thought necessary.
But Phil would never allow a sincere moment to be reduced to a superficial nicety.
At the time it seemed not much more than a nicety to make his hosts feel a little better about the way they viewed themselves.
Simply put, getting our people to change more readily, adapt more quickly and open their mind's to constantly innovating is not a nicety, it is a competitive necessity.
Textbooks used to be full of examples like these (English-language lessons and English language lessons; an odd-looking glass and an odd looking glass) but except in places like The New Yorker, which punctiliously hyphenates all such phrases, ambiguous or not, this useful, elegant hyphen has become a nicety, resorted to only in cases of extreme confusion and sometimes not even then.
In the course of the opinion the court said (p. 598): 'The whole case is put on the proviso, and the argument with regard to that is merely one of the many attempts to impart an overmathematical nicety to the prohibitions of the 14th Amendment.' These principles were again applied in Martin v. Pittsburg & L. E. R. Co. 203 U. S. 284, 51 L. ed.
