Sentence examples for excessive delicacy from inspiring English sources

The foreign consort's insistence on having her food cut up by her eunuch servants and then eating the pieces with a golden fork shocked and upset the diners so much that the Bishop of Ostia later interpreted her refined foreign manners as pride and referred to her as "...the Venetian Doge's wife, whose body, after her excessive delicacy, entirely rotted away".

"So not excessively excessive.

Peter Damian damned her for 'excessive delicacy' in preferring such a rarefied implement to her God-given hands," Wilson writes.

Another expensive delicacy.

This manifests itself in, among other things, an excessive love of deep-fried Mars bars and other health-sapping delicacies.

It's also a delicacy.

"Now it's a delicacy.

"A little femininity and delicacy.

"Delicacy," directed by David and Stephane Foenkinos.

Seems excessive?

Excessive cost.