In this ambivalent mixture of idealistic passion and shabby criminality, des Grieux, a young scapegrace but also, Prévost urges, a man of the most exquisite sentiments, sacrifices a glittering career to his fantasy of the amoral, delicate, and forever enigmatic Manon.
A firehouse logbook of the era, handwritten in exquisite script, preserves the flowery sentiments of the day.
The best of these religious paintings are aesthetically exquisite and inspiring as expressions of spiritual sentiment.
Most of all, what I didn't mention was the exquisite visual and gestural wit that Hawks applies to situations where sentiment looms.
But however adolescent her sentiments may have been, she voiced them with exquisite sophistication, taking the idea of a droopy raglan-sleeved shirt, for example, cutting it in satin and slitting the sleeves to articulate the shoulder.
Instead of belaboring perceived conflicts between science and religion, Shermer suggests that Christians should embrace science and evolution for its role in revealing the exquisite structure of the natural world and for explaining our own moral sentiments (Chapter 8, "Why Christians and conservatives should accept evolution").
Sondheim puts it more succinctly with the sentiment "never look back" in his operetta-conjuring "One Last Kiss" -- its exquisite edge provided by Rosalind Elias as Heidi Schiller and, as younger Heidi, Leah Horowitz.
As Austen's celebrated contemporary Sir Walter Scott wrote of her, "The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of description and sentiment, is denied me".
But the feelings are of the truest and most exquisite class; every circumstance is adorned with that species of imagination, which enlists itself under the banners of delicacy and sentiment.
