Vocabulary Word
Word: finesse
Definition: delicate skill; V: handle with finesse
Definition: delicate skill; V: handle with finesse
Sentences Containing 'finesse'
But it is at the sacrifice of many beautiful qualities of form, as this roughness of surface does not lend itself readily to any finesse of modelling.
and do you never use your eyes, which must have acquired so much finesse and certainty, to divine, at a glance, the kind of man by whom you are confronted?
Albert was accompanied by Lucien Debray, who, joining in his friend's conversation, added some passing compliments, the source of which the count's talent for finesse easily enabled him to guess.
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