"Finical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... means something, think of that, rather than of the way of saying it, your hearer, or yourself. Thus you will lose your self-consciousness, your dread, your fear, your worry. If your thought is worth anything, you can afford to laugh at some small violation of grammar, or the knocking over of some finical standard or other. Not that I would be thought to advocate either carelessness, laziness, or indifference in speech. Quite the contrary, as all who have heard me speak well know. But I fully believe that thought is of greater importance than form of expression. ...
— Quit Your Worrying! • George Wharton James
... about trifles, these conscientious objectors assure us, and trifles are unimportant. Trifles are unimportant, it is true, but then life is made up of trifles. To those who dislike the word, it suggests all that is finical and superfluous. It means a garish embroidery on the big scheme of life; a clog on the forward march of a strong and courageous nation. To such as these, the words etiquette and politeness connote weakness and timidity. Their notion of a really polite man is a dancing master or ...
— Etiquette • Emily Post
... highly finished, or else a wayside shrine, and a peasant woman, with her back turned, kneeling before it. She did backs very well, but she was a little weak in faces. Flowers, however, were her speciality, and though her touch was a little old-fashioned and finical, she painted them with remarkable skill. Her pictures were chiefly bought by the English. Rowland had made her acquaintance early in the winter, and as she kept a saddle horse and rode a great deal, ...
— Roderick Hudson • Henry James
... "All that finical ceremony he would go through in the face of the enemy," thought Blecker, jumping down ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, Issue 67, May, 1863 • Various
... you think your self a very fine Fellow now, and finical your self up to be thought so; but there's as much difference between a Citizen and ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn
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