Sentence examples for less exquisite from inspiring English sources

Laura desires Dan, too, in a darker and less exquisite way.

The upholstered Turkish bed of gilded and gessoed beech and walnut is no less exquisite but could pass for a sofa.

How many have read the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon, the great anti-war poet who managed to combine a love of foxhunting with a sensibility no less exquisite even than that of the right honourable member for Pendle?

Surviving on moldering provisions and precious scraps of protein, dodging predators, two-legged and four-, travelerslembodybody a besieged humanity that might have been more stirring if their torment were in a rather less exquisite frame.

But Carnegie could have done a greater service to Tchaikovsky by highlighting some of his great liturgical music, less well-known but scarcely less exquisite than Rachmaninoff's and more revelatory of another side to Tchaikovsky than any of the orchestral war horses opening the season.

Aciman, who has written so exquisitely about exile, loss and Proust in his book of essays, "False Papers," and his memoir, "Out of Egypt," is no less exquisite here in his evocation of Elio's adoration for the lost city of Oliver's body and the lost city of the love between the two men.

Not all the 25-year-old's films quite hit the nerve they aim to, but their presentation is never less than exquisite.

Watched by more than two million people, from New York to Tokyo, during the 2009-10 season, the broadcasts are making the art more affordable and accessible, but some say they will lead to the casting of charismatic performers whose singing is less than exquisite.

But who is Ruth, a woman who divorced Obama's father, remarried, and gave the family name of her second husband to her two sons by Obama Sr.? In the book she says, with less than exquisite tact, to Barack Obama: "But your mother remarried.

His timing was less than exquisite.

Han Kang's Human Acts is no less piercing: an exquisite, painful and deeply courageous account of the 1980 Gwangju massacre.