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Quotes About Finesse

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
Footmen stood stiffly with trays laden with foaming goblets and plates filled with tiny delicacies, such as sautéed scallops, salt cod and caviar on potato pancakes, basil palmiers, and roasted brie with gooseberries.
~ Kate Forsyth
They made comments about the women's legs, but, as they were not witty, their remarks had no finesse. Since their emotion was not torn by any point, they quite naturally skidded along on a stagnent ground of poetry.
~ Jean Genet
I soon noticed that there was nothing haphazard about her clothing; it was all in keeping with a particular style that I might call "Little Lord Fauntleroy meets French salon hostess.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.
~ Anne Robinson
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.
~ Rob Sheffield
We shall be known by the delicacy of where we stop short.
~ Robert Frost
She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
~ Khaled Hosseini
she offered herself to him with that quiet expression which is peculiar to a good-natured courtesan.
~ Émile Zola
Even if we don't play fantastically, with good passing and precision and finesse, the most important thing is to win.
~ Olivier Giroud
It's definitely attractive when a man can dress well.
~ Blake Lively
Doing background score for a film is not an easy task. It requires constant and deep learning and it is the only way to create a score with finesse.
~ Vidyasagar
Pau has a game that's impossible to imitate. He's so finesse and so skilled, it's impossible to imitate. Honestly, I'm a big fan of the game. I've never seen a player his size who has so many moves, so many counters and it's impossible. His length, his size, his skills - I mean, you can't teach that.
~ Marc Gasol
People aren't used to guarding this kind of size and I'm able to add a little finesse to my game so it has flavor and I'm a playmaker so I can create for my teammates and when I have to finish I'm gonna finish.
~ Zion Williamson
vol-au-vents.
~ Robert Harris
Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.
~ Robert Jordan
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!
~ Derwood Fincher
Men's is at a fast pace and focused on strength, whereas the women's is full of finesse and more skilful - and I think that's what the public have to associate with; male and female football is very different.
~ Karen Carney
We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.
~ Quavo
The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dining room is exquisite, with immaculate service and ornate details.
~ Anton du Beke
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
~ Bertolt Brecht
There is something quintessentially American about the USWNT. Last-minute, dramatic finishes and technical finesse aside, the spirit of the program reflects a determination and perseverance that resonates with the deeply held belief that with hard work, anything is possible.
~ Ali Krieger
If one makes a short film with reasonable technical finesse, it will cost between Rs. 50,000 and Rs. one lakh. That's a lot of money for someone starting off.
~ Karthik Subbaraj
Technically, Neymar is the best player in the world.
~ Cafu