Sentence examples similar to something dainty from inspiring English sources

There's something very dainty and delicate about my melodic compositions, but they are made by digital tools, which also render them clunky, cold".

He says, "it does seem extraordinary that Caro could take these 'I' beams and pieces of scrap metal and produce something so dainty and exquisite as Early One Morning ".

Don't get us wrong: we love a good statement piece, but there's something about dainty jewelry that just sets our hearts aflutter.

She did not eat like other girls; there was something refined and dainty about her.

A flat long flower arrangement would look great on a dining room table, while something smaller and daintier would be more appropriate on a small table.

There's something constrained and buttoned-up, dainty and polite about its dishes, where you'd like an occasional suggestion of blood and guts, gore and derring-do.

The wings are not dainty little things, like something on an Advent card.

Until recently, I hadn't even experienced something as substantial as a thought about those dainty sheathes.

"It's not something we want to rush," USACA President Gladstone Dainty said by phone.

Waterboarding — it sounds like something surfers in the Rockaways might do — is a dainty term for simulated drowning that was once more bluntly called water torture.

Fraser has said that his inspiration for the Loyal was the American tavern, but the white tablecloths and elegant serving pieces — scallop-edged china, dainty silver bowls, gravy boats galore — evoke something closer to Aunt Sukie's parlor.