Exquisite \Ex"qui*site\, a. [L. exquisitus, p. p. of exquirere to search out; ex out + quarere to seek, search. See {Quest}.] 1. Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship.
Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. --Shak.
I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough. --Shak.
2. Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.
3. Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment.
His books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite. --Fuller.
Exquisite \Ex"qui*site\, n. One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
Hard to imagine anything more precisely controlled or exquisite than the account of Bizet's 'Adieu de l'Hotesse arabe' with which she closed the recital: cool, warm, exotic and tenderly tactful, all at one go.
Gielgud referred to the two new appointments _ himself as fellow and she as president _ as "venerability and wisdom" on one hand and "youth and exquisite beauty" on the other.
To be a petit matre is to be matre none the less. Now, with Boudin at Trouville, we have another artist of this category and quality, and an exhibition as exquisite as any them.
He's got plenty of jokes like: "Did you ever notice that Gentiles on vacation are always running and jumping and leaping around?" he demands with exquisite timing.
For summer, he has used materials on hand - pieces of cloth left over in his studio, leaves from the garden, even strips of salmon skin. The effect is exquisite and individualistic.
Fifteen years of insanity have almost destroyed what once was a Mediterranean coast of exquisite beauty.
Yet another fine exhibit from this large company encouraged me to follow up Hucherella Charles Bloom because its darkish leaves are not too sombre and its haze of peach-pink flowers looked exquisite.
Then, the exquisite purity of her Kirov training, made the dance seem so fresh, so pure, that one might have been seeing the ballet and hearing the music for the first time.
The figure is no larger than a a man's thumb. Small wonder that, down the centuries since the Spanish conquest four hundred years ago, graves such as the Lord of Sipan's, with their exquisite contents, have fallen prey to looters.
After winning a preliminary talent competition earlier in the week, Miss Minnesota said parts of her performance were "exquisite." Miss Carlson performed a spirited violin solo titled "Gypsy Airs."
Derek Lee Ragin was an exact and exquisite Oberon.
And Lombardo's exquisite pair of heads in bas-relief, from Vienna, clearly casts that mood of gentle, almost elegiac ecstasy so characteristic of Leonardo's adoring Madonnas.
The trouble with this biography is that, as Flaubert knew, such a subject is soon tedious unless mocked - thus the exquisite irony in Madame Bovary.
The kimonos and dresses Ms. Ishioka has created for Song are as exquisite as any female impersonator could wish for.
A "fancy basket" with complicated weaves in brilliant colors and a bamboo "warmer" basket with an exquisite woven-wire top proved that form and function can go hand in hand.
The beguilingly simple Song period (11th-12th century) dish in the form of a seven-petalled mallow flower is the show's tour-de-force of exquisite understatement.
Taking almost a century to reach their full height, the trees - grown in the damp and cold northern climate - produce timber with an exquisite grain.
Instead of a "normal apartment," they discovered a 40-room mansion crammed with valuable paintings, exquisite fountains and gold-plated fixtures in the bathrooms. Every room had a television and a videocasette player.
But 184 passengers and crew members survived, a fact some board members attributed to the skill and "exquisite" teamwork on the part of the pilots.
Despite the rather martial orchestral contribution it was a wonderful performance, full of exquisite touch and colour, moments of unexpected wit and occasional fierce explosive emphases.
Her exquisite Gilda brought conviction at every appearance and her performance had a galvanising effect on her colleagues.
Use your time and money to promote paintings and sculptures that reflect exquisite talent, not the drivel that the lowest amateur can produce.
Aymara and Quechua Indians make exquisite weavings and outfits and have elaborate rituals and festivals that date to pre-Colombian times.
Are we really to believe, as gospel, that the Dubin restaurant in the Hotel Esplanade, Zagreb, offers 'intimate luxury and exquisite international cuisine'? I imagine that of late it has become a little more intimate and a little less exquisite.
Are we really to believe, as gospel, that the Dubin restaurant in the Hotel Esplanade, Zagreb, offers 'intimate luxury and exquisite international cuisine'? I imagine that of late it has become a little more intimate and a little less exquisite.
Clark's dancing in this brief section is purer, more potent, more exquisite in articulation than we have seen for years.
The torture would be the more exquisite for the fact that the only congenial spirits the condemned could turn to would be one another. This phantasmagoria should not be taken as an argument in favour of Labour, or a Lab-Lib coalition.
Fate, that exquisite torturer, has placed Mr Major into Number 10 Downing Street on the strength of a small yet unreliable majority.
I loved the sextet from Napoli, done with southern vivacity, and was charmed by Sandrine Henault's exquisite feet in the Flower Festival in Genzano duet: every step was diamond-cut.
On one level it is so distracting to watch modern performers' efforts to recapture the exquisite refinements of an unrecapturable era that you can hardly attend to the music.