Example sentences for: finely

How can you use “finely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some critics admire the witty "amused sense of yuppie tragicomedy" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ), others say the film "isn't really much more than a beautifully acted, finely edited sitcom" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Everyone loves the Brazilian bossa nova soundtrack.

  • In draft after draft, in script meeting after script meeting, every narrative line is examined for signs of warp, every motivation of every character is finely adjusted, until the story is as watertight as a birch-bark canoe.

  • Praise also goes to Fitzgerald's command of dialogue: "The conversations are many-voiced, sharp-witted and finely tuned enough to allow the reader to hear plangent undernotes and to feel the intoxicating buzz that good talk emits" (Lucy Hughes-Hallett, the Sunday Times ).

  • The two were finely balanced.

  • But it's also worth mentioning that Harvey Weinstein's interest in funding Good Will Hunting was not spurred by his own finely tuned aesthetic sensibilities but rather by Kevin Smith, a golden boy after the profitable release of Chasing Amy , who delivered the script for Good Will Hunting to Weinstein in person and insisted that it be made.


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