superfineness

The beau ideal of superfineness occasionally enjoys the bliss of harking back to mother English.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

We are thankful that Freud pulled us somewhat to earth, out of all our clouds of superfineness.

Fantasia of the Unconscious 1907

Beauty to mere intellectual dilettantism or sensual superfineness.

Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Vernon Lee 1895

I have tried to show that the desire for congruity, which may seem so trivial a part of mere dilettanteist superfineness, may expand and develop into such love of harmony between ourselves and the ways of the universe as shall make us wince at other folks 'loss united to our gain, at our deterioration united to our pleasure, even as we wince at a false note or a discordant arrangement of colours.

Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Vernon Lee 1895

This question of _superfineness_ versus _refinement_ (which ought to mean the power of refining things through our feeling) has carried me away from the original theme of my discourse, which, under the symbol of the hotel room, was merely that we should _perhaps appreciate more if we were offered less to appreciate_.

Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life Vernon Lee 1895

Some go so far as to say that she gained therein superfineness and whiteness of skin.

Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Some go so far as to say that she gained therein superfineness and whiteness of skin.

Droll Stories — Volume 3 Honor�� de Balzac 1824

The beau ideal of superfineness occasionally enjoys the bliss of harking back to mother English.

Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

The beau ideal of superfineness occasionally enjoys the bliss of harking back to mother English.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1746-47 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733