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  • I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.

  • I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

    Home   Men   Thinking  
  • So actually what that was able to do was twofold. For me, it helps illustrate what DTS is capable of doing right from the beginning. And secondly, technically, it actually gave us a little bit more time so we could just finesse some effects and things like that, because when you release theatrical, you actually get a bigger window than if you're DVD when you have to have it done sooner so they can press the DVDs and all that kind of stuff.

    Dvds   Done   Littles  
    Source: collider.com
  • Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

    Chef   Finesse   Bigs  
    "Burger Queen" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.
  • If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end in itself; it's a multipurpose ingredient; it's an all-purpose garnish; it's an invaluable tool. The egg teaches your hands finesse and delicacy. It helps your arms develop strength and stamina. It instructs in the way proteins behave in heat and in the powerful ways we can change food mechanically. It's a lever for getting other foods to behave in great ways. Learn to take the egg to its many differing ends, and you've enlarged your culinary repertoire by a factor of ten.

    Powerful   Hands   Eggs  
    Michael Ruhlman (2011). “Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques, 200 Recipes, A Cook's Manifesto”, p.104, Chronicle Books
  • One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.

    Sports   Athlete   Men  
    "The String Theory" by David Foster Wallace, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2008.
  • You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

    "'Vampire Diaries': Ian Somerhalder on His 'Pissed-Off' Character and Whether He'll Direct an Episode (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 16, 2011.
  • Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of play was always a bit tough for me, but of course I had to, because the rules of tennis dont state that having a beautiful game is required to become No. 1.

    Beautiful   Games   Play  
  • The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same fundamental problems, and is headed toward the same catastrophe.

    Law   Land   Ignorant  
    "Fascism and The Workers’ Movement". The Militant, www.marxists.org. March-April 1954.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    "In the name of the father". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.
  • The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

    Mean   People   Would Be  
    Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.88, Cambridge University Press
  • The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur. -People who think they are trapped in a river of regularized and ever-repeating time are merely the victims of their own ordinarizing minds that have elaborated for them a prison-cell of everydayness. The fountains of time, history, life, inspiration, etc. are fresh every instant, if one knows how to grasp them with some finesse: every instant within natural, historical, and personal time is unique.

  • A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

    Jobs   Mistake   Men  
  • Digital has obviously changed things a lot, but not all for the better as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's much more convenient and you're getting instant results, but to me it just lacks the finesse of a roll of film and it has a slightly superimposed feel.

    Digital   Film   Finesse  
  • Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse.

    Sports   Two   Goal  
  • The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

    Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.16
  • The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

    Games   Long   Sailing  
    Herman Melville (1962). “Billy Budd, Sailor”, p.83, University of Chicago Press
  • Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

  • I see more now. As far as concepts, I know where teammates are going, linemen are going. I can read defensive fronts. I can read the body language of linebackers. I study film to see who's a bull rusher and who's a finesse rusher. I think I've learned.

    Thinking   Bulls   Body  
  • [My boys] they're all different. Jackie was very competitive. He was a tough kid - a little bit like Nick. Steve was sort of a finesse guy. He was a little bit like Nick - if he could touch it, he'd catch it. He played wide receiver at Florida State. Then, Gary came along and Gary was more my size.

    Kids   Boys   Florida  
    Source: www.nicklaus.com
  • Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

  • People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.

    People   Finesse   Method  
  • The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a life whose scorched-earth physical and psycho-emotional dimensions no one could have invented - they absolutely had to be lived. By all rights, the author should either be dead or chewing his fingers in a bus station. Instead, he may well have written the memoir of an entire generation.

    Heart   Eye   Reality  
  • It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.

  • Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

  • To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

    Mean   Finesse   Process  
    "Notes on Philosophy", On Politics and Society, 1941.
  • It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.

  • 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.

    Men   Simple   Skills  
  • The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.

    Moving   Games   Long  
    Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, p.282, OUP Oxford
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