Voorbeelden van dainty

• Nineteenth-century critics prescribe dainty strategies to represent the body in extremis, as if suspecting something of the dangers of looking upon it.

• For all its dainty appearance, however, the program makes brutal demands on the reduction machine.

• About the dainty lines of the cheek the bat flits unheeded.

• Her feet, if they are visible at all, are dainty and point downward (fig. 5).

• This family of curves graphs islands of complexity comprising systems per se - whether massive stars, dainty flowers or urban centres - not their vastly, indeed increasingly, disorganized surroundings.

• All kinds—from the plain butcher's shirt to the daintiest of frilled shirts, which any dainty popinjay may put upon him at night.

• It was fairly mild in the first stage, if annoying to women wearing dainty dresses to be sprayed with tomato ketchup.

• However, dainty sympathies are of no earthly use.