Of course, the dispassionate critic cannot help observing that there is in "The Creation" a good deal of music which is Finicking and something which is trumpery.
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden
"Or he could be any one of half-a-dozen other things-his last craze was journalism; but you know what I mean by the artistic temperament: it's that inability to be explicit; that habit of leaving things vague and undefined, and hoping they'll somehow come out as you want them of themselves; that way of taking the line of beauty to get at what you wish to do or say, and of being very Finicking about little things and lag about essentials.
"April Hopes"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
I have often, attended his church and heard him preach; but the sermons which I have heard are either expositions of high doctrine, or else discourses of what I can only call a very feminine and even Finicking kind of morality; he preaches on the duty of church-going, on the profane use of scriptural language, on the sanctification of joy, on the advisability of family prayer, on religious meditation, on the examples of saints, on the privilege of devotional exercises, on the consecration of life, on the communion of saints, on the ministry of angels.
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson