nicety

It requires great powers, great nicety, to give her playfulness and simplicity without extravagance.

"Is the freedom to come and go a legal nicety? Is freedom of expression a legal nicety?

The wainscoting fit nicety into a groove in the base and then was held at the top by a grooved cap molding.

GREAT WAR 100 And he has also convinced a band of experienced players into voicing, with a nicety of dramatic values, the sentiments which together form a slice of life.

The emphasis is on the system as a whole rather than on the engineering details of its constituents, and on practical conditions and situations rather than theoretical nicety. The venerable textbook was first published in 1967, and is revised and updated here from the 1998 edition.

IT WOULD be embarrassing to try to argue that for Moseley this season's British & Irish Cup campaign is anything other than a nicety that pales in significance compared to the necessity of Championship rugby.

The ship, now known as the Oriental Nicety, entered Indian waters in May.

A bench headed by Justice Altamas Kabir carved out an exception to Exxon Valdez , now named Oriental Nicety and stressed that the vessel owners would have to bear the cost of disposal of any toxic material in the ship.

"It's not a technical nicety. It's part of the sport like a knockout punch in boxing.

Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent." Maya Angelou (1928-) is an American author and poet.