Sentence examples for rather dainty from inspiring English sources

German High Gothic sculpture is represented by some rather dainty, elegant figures, enveloped in curving and bulky drapery, around the choir of Cologne cathedral (consecrated in 1322).

We also urged on the cows with calls that ran the gamut from guttural whoops to a rather dainty "Come on, cows".

The show's first big gallery is dominated by the tall figure of the god or ruler, which is almost nine feet high when you include its rather dainty, stool-like pedestal.

The piece is initially disappointing: a rather dainty geometrical figure that, at about a hundred and fifty feet across, is too small — not by a lot, but fatally so — to hold scale against the sun-stunned, distantly islanded lake, amid hills that are strewn with black basalt boulders.

Named for a sweet-smelling nocturnal flowering plant, it starts with prints by Hans Baldung Grien and Albrecht Dürer, includes the efforts of some 80 artists and has a perfect setting in the rather dainty 19th-century town house that is this Chelsea gallery's uptown redoubt.

I paid 22 euros (about $27) for a rather dainty gin and tonic and the privilege of partying with Monaco's glitterati on the same dance floor where Paris Hilton met her like-named erstwhile fiancé.

QAF is big, beautiful and fast, its characters painted with broad brushes rather than dainty dabs.

They were beautiful but, unlike their 16th-century counterparts, were painted, embroidered, or printed with dainty rather than large-motif designs and were decorated not with jewels but with lace ruffles, ruching, and ribbon bows.

That means softened butter; no warm loaves served in twee little bread tins; sliced eggs; chutneys dolloped in neat, pooling piles, rather than in dainty pots with unnecessary spoons.

In a telling detail, Mr. Van Valkenburgh mounted the park's lighting system atop 35-foot-tall telephone poles rather than the dainty old-fashioned lampposts that the city's parks department normally favors — a clear effort to relate the design to the scale of the structures around it.

Despite their almost dainty looks, they seem rather durable in realty.