(countable) An adroit maneuver.
The Visoflex does this with Leicas. It's a neat way to shoot. Personally I prefer getting good zone focus and going from the chest, but that takes a lot more finesse and practice leicacamerausa.com/leica-visofl...
Personalist regimes in authoritarian countries also slap the name of the dictator on everything. Yet even they don’t resort to this kind of vulgar and blatant grift. They at least try to suck the money out of the coun…
(countable) An adroit maneuver.
The Treaty of Madrid called into action the diplomatic finesse, or rather the low cunning of the English cabinet.
“The Visoflex does this with Leicas. It's a neat way to shoot. Personally I prefer getting good zone focus and going from the chest, but that takes a lot more finesse and practice leicacamerausa.com/leica-visofl...”
“Personalist regimes in authoritarian countries also slap the name of the dictator on everything. Yet even they don’t resort to this kind of vulgar and blatant grift. They at least try to suck the money out of the country with more finesse. This is signature Trump.”
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The outfit is good af tho so u should finesse reasons to draw it
“The outfit is good af tho so u should finesse reasons to draw it”
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(uncountable) A skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.
It is not impossible that this bold attempt to wrest from this State and Nation, so large and important a frontier territory; with the insidious arts, and unblushing finesse and chicanery, with which the British pretensions have been man…
"finesse" means: A skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.. This is a fairly neutral word with no inherent risk attached. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than something dangerous. If your child uses it, context will usually make the meaning clear. A brief, curious question about where they heard it is generally enough to know whether to follow up.
"finesse" means: A skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.. Register: neutral, standard English, usable in most everyday contexts. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
(uncountable) The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill.
Finesse is not exactly subtlety; we draw a person into a snare with finesse; we escape from it with subtlety. We act with finesse, and we play a subtle trick. Distrust is inspired by an unsparing use of finesse; yet we almost always dece…