Literary notes about exquisite (AI summary)
Writers use “exquisite” to evoke a refined intensity that enhances both physical and emotional experiences. In some works, the term punctuates a character’s sudden surge of delight or pain—capturing fleeting moments of heightened sensation ([1], [2])—while in others it describes the delicate beauty of a person, object, or artistic expression ([3], [4]). Moreover, “exquisite” frequently underscores meticulous attention to detail in architecture or design, suggesting an almost divine harmony in creation ([5], [6]), and in doing so, it lends prose a layer of rarefied precision and deep aesthetic appreciation ([7], [8]).
- As she came to, I continued convulsively catching my breath, as if I were still in that exquisite sensation of half consciousness.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous - A short period of exquisite felicity followed, and but a short one.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen - As if fascinated, her eyes rested long upon those demurely taunting eyes and she murmured devotedly: —Isn’t she an exquisite creature?
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce - Are you really the exquisite creature I imagine you to be?
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - To the grub under the bark the exquisite fitness of the woodpecker's organism to extract him would certainly argue a diabolical designer.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James - The interior is exquisite with lacelike carvings inlaid with semiprecious stones.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - There, at the opposite side of the table, stood Mr. Godfrey, clapping his hands like a large child, and singing out softly, “Exquisite!
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - That exquisite poise of character, which we call serenity is the last lesson of culture, the fruitage of the soul.
— from As a man thinketh by James Allen
