(a.) Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.
(a.) Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship.
(a.) Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment.
(n.) One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In several other cases, MR provided information beyond that obtained with CT. MR has the advantage of providing exquisite anatomic detail in multiplanar images, and it appears to be more sensitive than CT in detecting small, subacute and chronic hemorrhage within soft-tissue masses in the orbit and in detecting ischemia of the globe.
(2) An international team led by Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University in Rome inferred the existence of the ocean after taking a series of exquisite measurements made during three fly-bys between April 2010 and May 2012, which brought the Cassini spacecraft within 100km of the surface of Enceladus.
(3) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(4) Unfortunately, the immune apparatus is exquisitely sensitive to toxic damage.
(5) Suddenly he would be picking up speed, scurrying past opponents and, in one instance, slipping the ball through Laurent Koscielny’s legs for a nutmeg that was so exquisitely executed he might have been tempted to ruffle his opponent’s hair.
(6) These include (a) the nature of the regulatory mechanisms themselves, (b) the exquisite sensitivity of the pathway to regulatory control, (c) the rapid turnover of ODC and AdoMetDC, (d) the different structural specificity of ODC and AdoMetDC regulation versus growth-dependent functions, and (e) the direct dependence of growth on sustained polyamine biosynthesis.
(7) Piano, who is conscious of having grown up in a generation that fought to preserve Italy's exquisite historical town centres from the bulldozing zeal of modernisers, is grateful that crucial battle was waged and – to a certain extent – won.
(8) Our data suggest that in glial cells, cobalamin coenzyme synthesis and function is exquisitely sensitive to short-term cobalamin deprivation.
(9) Symptoms of cold intolerance and exquisite tenderness were common to all.
(10) I've read critics for the best part of 40 years and no one has achieved this balance as exquisitely as Philip French.
(11) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(12) The micromechanical properties of the cochlea accounting for the exquisite properties of sensitivity and frequency selectivity depend on the integrity of an active biomechanism probably based upon a motile activity of outer hair cells (OHCs).
(13) Furthermore, we argue that endothelial cells are exquisitely responsive to local immune reactivity and present evidence that specific lymphokines, including gamma-interferon, play an important role in inducing postcapillary venules to express differentiated features required for the support of lymphocyte traffic into lymphoid organs and into sites of chronic inflammation.
(14) Techniques of measurement that are exquisitely sensitive have been developed for detection of major immune recognition proteins such as antibody and complement in crevicular fluid.
(15) The central defender picked out Coutinho in space deep inside the Germans’ half and the Brazilian put Sturridge clear with an exquisite flick over the Dortmund rearguard.
(16) On the contrary, an exquisite haute couture dress - like the ones that Cristóbal Balenciaga created in his 1950s heyday - can look as perfect as a beautiful painting or sculpture.
(17) The exquisite responsiveness of CEP to corticosteroids should encourage use of a therapeutic trial when there is a strong clinical suspicion of the disorder.
(18) The membranes can be simply prepared from [3H]inositol-labelled erythrocytes and they contain a PIC activity that hydrolyses endogenous phosphoinositides and is exquisitively sensitive to guanine nucleotides.
(19) Sánchez and Özil demonstrated their class with exquisite interplay before the German crossed for Campbell, who finished emphatically before being engulfed by team-mates delighted both for the player and for a victory that augurs well for the club.
(20) Based on the study of 67 affected women during a period of 15 years, we report the clinical features and natural history of focal vulvitis, a unique syndrome characterized by severe and persistent superficial dyspareunia and the presence of one to 11 (median three) minute, exquisitely tender areas of focal inflammation or ulceration on the mucosa of the vestibule.
Stunning
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stun
(a.) Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.
(a.) Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(2) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(3) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(4) Nevertheless between 18% and 20% appear to have done so – a stunning result for the far right.
(5) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(6) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
(7) Alternatively, a loss of collagen tethers or decline in matrix tensile strength can be responsible for regional or global transformations in myocardial architecture and function seen in the reperfused ("stunned") myocardium and in dilated (idiopathic) cardiopathy.
(8) The speed of the advance and strength of the weaponry used has stunned the autonomous enclave.
(9) Considerable evidence indicates that calcium antagonists administered prior to coronary occlusion attenuate postischemic stunning in the canine model: verapamil, diltiazem, and amlodipine have been shown to restore contractile function to 50-100% of baseline values during the initial hours following relief of ischemia.
(10) In models of prolonged ischemia (2 hours) followed by reperfusion, we have not observed a beneficial effect of scavengers on stunned myocardium.
(11) The present study tested the hypothesis that a reduction in calcium flux across the sarcolemma or the sarcoplasmic reticulum at the onset of reperfusion could attenuate subsequent mechanical "stunning" (postischemic myocardial dysfunction).
(12) Thus myocardial "stunning" is a nonuniform phenomenon with maximal severity in the subendocardium.
(13) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
(14) The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people.
(15) In fact, I'm stunned at how good the place that I am in is.
(16) Myocardial "Stunning" is characterized by a reversible post-ischemic contractile dysfunction despite full restoration of blood flow.
(17) There's a stunning atmosphere in Wembley tonight, one even the Sheffield Wednesday band can't bugger up.
(18) It was similar between dog and rabbit hearts (about 40%) and was not significantly affected by enhanced contractility with calcium, epinephrine, or cardiac cooling, or by depressed contractility with propranolol, decreased coronary perfusion pressure, or stunned myocardium.
(19) RBS starts charging financial customers to park their cash Read more The disposal of W&G is proving troublesome and expensive for RBS, which stunned the City last month by admitting it was abandoning its attempt to float the business on the stock market.
(20) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.