(a.) Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.
(a.) The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2.
(v. i.) To use artifice or stratagem.
(v. i.) To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play.
Example Sentences:
(1) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
(2) Today, however, artists are using them with so much confidence and finesse that the best colored pencil drawings can hold their own with those of any other technique.
(3) He may feel on the margins but this was a reminder that the Spaniard remains a player of sumptuous talent, vision and finesse.
(4) If something similar had happened in Borgen, Nyborg would have somehow finessed seeming at once a woman of the people and a major international figure.
(5) Adaptic and Profile showed the most amounts of wear, followed by Finesse, Miradapt, and Isopast.
(6) She comes across as vapid and totally uncouth without a bit of finesse about her.
(7) Earthworks were started in late 2011, while the route was still being finessed, and continued despite the difficulties caused by torrential rain that has fallen in the region over the last year.
(8) What the presentation lacked in finesse, the dish made up for in flavour.
(9) Fat chicks deserve that, too.’” I probably would have finessed it a bit if I’d been sober, but way to lean in, bossy, drunk past-Lindy!
(10) The architects of the Chiang Mai Initiative attempted to finesse the problem by requiring countries that draw more than 30% of their swaps to negotiate a program with the IMF.
(11) However, increasingly prominent neo-cons within the administration, led by National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, are exploiting the circumstances to maneuver Trump into a position where he is pressured into green lighting a full scale ground war, an attack on Damascus and a confrontation with Russia.” There Is No Trump Doctrine, And That’s Okay Publication: Commentary Author: Noah Rothman has long been this column’s favourite neoconservative Why you should read it: Rothman makes an effort to finesse the problem that everyone might want to claim Trump faces: Trump has no clear foreign policy doctrine.
(12) The former culture minister Jack Lang saluted his "vital energy"; the Socialist leader, Martine Aubry, hailed his "great finesse".
(13) With nothing left to the imagination and nowhere to hide, it's not surprising that users finesse their profiles a little.
(14) These are: Adaptic, Concise, Miradapt, Degufill and Finesse.
(15) However, there is still some finessing to do, and only two major energy providers have signed up.
(16) The quasi-farcical question of British involvement in Operation Bluestar (as Mark Tully pointed out , had the SAS really been involved, it's likely the consequent destruction would have been achieved with considerable finesse) is secondary to the horror that won't go away.
(17) There is a certain quiet finesse to my 15-hour shredded brisket sandwich, with cheese, onions and coleslaw.
(18) It's not a situation where I'm finessing every tiny detail.
(19) However, Abramovich finessed his contact with Kerimov and, to Tottenham's fury, Willian was on his way to Stamford Bridge, albeit for a slightly higher price.
(20) The undoubted political commitment to the euro means that there are now calls for a fast-track approach to full political union, but this means repeating the top-down approach used for monetary union and – at a time when the markets are talking about a Greek exit within weeks or months – would take years to finesse.
(n.) The familiar knowledge of any art or science, united with readiness and dexterity in execution or performance, or in the application of the art or science to practical purposes; power to discern and execute; ability to perceive and perform; expertness; aptitude; as, the skill of a mathematician, physician, surgeon, mechanic, etc.
(n.) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
(n.) Any particular art.
(v. t.) To know; to understand.
(v. i.) To be knowing; to have understanding; to be dexterous in performance.
(v. i.) To make a difference; to signify; to matter; -- used impersonally.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
(2) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(3) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
(4) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
(5) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(6) The skill of the surgeon was not a significant factor in maternal deaths.
(7) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
(8) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
(9) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
(10) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
(11) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
(12) A teaching package is described for teaching interview skills to large blocks of medical students whilst on their psychiatric attachment.
(13) The intervention represented, for the intervention team, an opportunity to learn community organization and community education skills through active participation in the community.
(14) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
(15) There is extant a population of subjects who have average or better than average interpretive reading skills as measured by standardized tests but who read slowly and inefficiently.
(16) To not use those skills would be like Gigi Buffon not using his enormous hands.
(17) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
(18) The functional role of corticocortical input projecting to the motor cortex in learning motor skills was investigated by training 3 cats with and without the projection area.
(19) Gauging the proper end point of methohexital administration is accomplished through skilled observation of the patient.
(20) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.