Sentence examples for delicate sentiment from inspiring English sources

And he suggested that certain people were in a position to judge what was in good taste: those who had "delicate sentiment, improved by practice" could decide, "the true standard of taste and beauty".

This explanation is accompanied by closely associated criteria for identifying good critics: "Strong sense, united to delicate sentiment, improved by practice, perfected by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character" (SOT, 278).

"Strong sense, united to delicate sentiment, improved by practice, perfected by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character; and the joint verdict of such, wherever they are to found, is the true standard of taste and beauty" ("Of the Standard of Taste" 1757, 144).

"Their griefs are transient," he wrote, and their love lacked "a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation".

Nigger's love was "more an eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation", and of "the senses only".

There is the same minutely close observation of the social dynamics of family life, the same apparent disregard for conventional narrative structure, the same teasing hints that the fictional narrator is a persona for the real author, the same delicate balance of sentiment and irony, and the same humorous running commentary on the activities of writing and reading.

The characters in the movie are as bright as they are vile, the flip side of fun is disgust, and love and sentiment are delicate flowers constantly trampled in the constant stampede of human stupidity.

They seem not only to express feelings but also to create new ones — hundreds of micro-sentiments expressing delicate gradations of emotional weather.

They seem not only to express feelings but also to create new ones—hundreds of micro-sentiments expressing delicate gradations of emotional weather.

Marine officials were also attempting to identify the person who shot the video, which emerged early Thursday and has incited a wave of anti-American sentiment at a delicate moment in the decade-long war in Afghanistan.

Audiences anticipate the feel-good ending, so films that liberally ladle the schmaltz over magical resolutions upend the delicate balance between drama and sentiment, producing an abundance of self-awareness.