exquisite
requintado
definition
noun
Using brightly coloured, almost grotesque distortion of an individual's salient features, he targeted the royal family, politicians, society figures, exquisites , and charlatans.
a man who is affectedly concerned with his clothes and appearance; a dandy.
adjective
exquisite, jewellike portraits
extremely beautiful and, typically, delicate.
translation of 'exquisite'
noun
almofadinha,
pretensioso,
casquilho
adjective
primoroso,
fino,
intenso,
delicado,
extraordinário,
raro,
requintado
example
It was an illuminating moment of 'exquisite' agony still vivid these many years later.
My hostess was a woman dressed in 'exquisite' taste, friendly but politely distant.
With over 25 stands displaying their beautiful range of 'exquisite' handmade crafts, the fair is sure to attract a large gathering
He had 'exquisite' taste in literature, but curiously enough these wonderful books didn't sell.
I'd like to think that I'm a man of 'exquisite' taste.
The spring rain that she had worshipped before now trickled down the back of her neck like the most 'exquisite' torture.
She has delighted in rendering in delicate detail and 'exquisite' colour the little-known plants and creatures of the desert.
A catalogue of unparalleled scope and 'exquisite' taste accompanied the exhibit.
I felt I was in the presence of an angel; a wondrous, 'exquisite' but delicate angel.
It drew on sociological studies from several countries that describe confinement under sentence of death as 'exquisite' psychological torture.
Its high-ceilinged rooms, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, are decorated and furnished with 'exquisite' taste.
But in practice the prohibition means 'exquisite' torture for the fighting men and women who crave and deserve a stiff drink at day's end.
Gold and silver were made into 'exquisite' adornments, and beautiful objects were created from indigenous turquoise, marble, and other stones.
In nearly five decades of concert going this writer has rarely heard more 'exquisite' , sensitively projected Chopin.
She found it 'exquisite' torture to have to hold still, to remain kneeling, but somehow she managed.
Soprano Juliane Banse's fruity voice is neither childish nor stereotypically innocent, but her diction and sensitivity to words are 'exquisite' .
I could empathise with the 'exquisite' torture of figuring out your place in the world.
Happily, the technology is now doing its job, collecting data methodically and with 'exquisite' sensitivity.
Where was the pain of probing the pressure points, the 'exquisite' agony of muscular crystals breaking up under relentless fingers?
Neither of us ever had sampled a more 'exquisite' delicacy.
They both took quadruple bogey nines and suffered the 'exquisite' torture that golf inflicts on all those who deign to play the game.
His 'exquisite' sensitivity to the difficulties faced by employers never failed him.
He could give her gifts as 'exquisite' and beautiful as the jewelled butterfly he'd given her on the day he realised he loved her.
It's a form of 'exquisite' torture watching George and Martha torment each other, and occasionally this becomes tiresome.
Without creativity, even the most 'exquisite' and beautiful long hair cannot be said to be fashionable.
She had 'exquisite' taste and a flawless grasp of the Court's Byzantine code of conduct.
We know envy as a state of 'exquisite' tension, torment and ill-will, provoked by an overwhelming sense of inferiority, impotence and worthlessness.
The 'exquisite' taste in clothing of the Indian upper class is in sharp contradistinction to its complete indifference to the external appearance of houses and streets.
Sirk's is a popular cinema fashioned with 'exquisite' taste during what we now know as the twilight of Hollywood's self-enclosed grandeur.
My friend has a website filled with beautiful art and 'exquisite' illustrations.
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