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Updated: May 21, 2025
Sometimes it seems as if the real crucifixion for every one of us is in our contending desires and tastes, in the artificial competing standards that are mislabeled refinement. To be finicky is to court anhedonia, and the joy of life is in robust tastes not easily offended and easily gratified.
I'm a good sport, you know, and not especially finicky, but I'd like to " "How is she? Is she resting? Does she seem " "Well, she's stretched out in my bed, with my best nightie on, and she seems to be doing as well as could be expected," said Miss Thackeray dryly. "Has she had coffee and " "I am going after it now. It seems that she is in the habit of having it in bed.
"I'm not ashamed of being congratulated. Are you? But if you're so finicky about it, I'll do the telephoning myself." Whereupon Mr. Mix went back to his room, and drank two highballs, and communed with himself until long past midnight.
"You don't think I'm going to take praise for what belongs to you, do you?" he demanded. "Why " "No, sir!" said Mr. Mix. "Not exactly. I'm going to tell the truth about it at our next meeting, and I'm going to send a statement to the Herald." "Oh, it doesn't matter." "It matters to me. Maybe I'm too finicky, but that's the kind of man I am." "You're too generous," she murmured. Mr.
"You're worth more to me as a sort o' reserve than you 'd be as a straight puncher, an' the' ain't no use o' your gettin' so blame finicky all of a sudden. What's got into you lately?" "Now, you knob' how it is, Jabez," sez I, "if I cut loose from the rest o' the bunch, they're bound to talk about it an' " "Let 'em talk," he snaps in. "Talk ain't expensive; but I don't think they're a jealous lot.
But games are all right. We all have our own interests. Poetry is my chief one at present. But that doesn't blind me to the fact that games are what count. Where should we be without them? And I damn well hope the House is not going to get into a finicky, affected state of mind, despising them because they are too slack to play them.
Hitherto it had appeared to him more or less of a Yankee fad, unworthy of the attention of an able-bodied man of average intelligence. In Edinburgh a "writing machine" was still something of a new-fangled luxury, to be apologised for. Mr. Rae would allow no such finicky instrument in his office.
When I was with Hendry cloaks with beads were the fashion, and Jess sighed as she looked at them. Kyowowy means finicky, and applied to the draper by general consent. No doubt it was very characteristic to call the cloaks by their market value. In the glen my scholars still talk of their school-books as the tupenny, the fowerpenny, the sax-penny. They finish their education with the ten-penny.
They come to you with a brave showing of hunger, but when you've given until no more remains to be given, they become finicky and capricious, and lose their interest in the homely old porridge-bowl which looked all loveliness to them before they had made it theirs.... This afternoon, tired of scheming and conceiting for the future, I had a longing to be frivolous and care-free.
"I suppose you would consider our tastes very finicky, on Earth; but the fact is we are able to distinguish between minute variations in flavoring such as would escape all on earth except a humming-bird." "I suppose," remarked the doctor, smacking his lips over a reddish solution with a winelike flavor, "I suppose we can expect something of that sort on the Earth, too, in time.
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