Meaning of “finesse away”
I've run into the following sentence:
[...] that we are building utopias in our virtualities that will finesse away the imperfections of human character.
I could not find in any place the meaning of "finesse away" as a phrasal verb.
Though I found this expression in some other contexts:
- Weak private investment means weak growth and bleak long-term employment prospects. There is no way to finesse away that fact.
- However, I think we can say with confidence that our awareness is rooted in the physical brain. This is where our conciousness exists, and I don't think we will ever be able to finesse away this fundamental dependency.
- However, rather than attempt to finesse away the concept of race, we should simply ask: in civic life, how much significance ought we to attach to racial difference?
- The dreaded alternative minimum tax, which was created to ensure that upper-income Americans would not be able to finesse away their tax obligations altogether, would be eliminated under the proposal.
- Together the EDGE architecture and its compiler finesse away much of the register renaming, CAMs, and complexity
- Let’s finesse away for the moment, exactly what “meanness” means.
- Follow up with McKee’s 37 Fast Polish to refine the finish, then finesse away any remaining blemishes and add the warm glow of carnauba with McKee’s 37 Jeweling Wax.
From uses above, I could guess "finesse away" could mean:
- something close to "circumvent", "avoid" (in sentences 1 to 5)
- "ignore" (in sentence 6)
- "subtly remove" (in sentence 7)
Except for sentence 7 (the only one I can clearly understand the choice of "finesse away" - to imply delicacy, subtlety), does "finesse away" carries any additional meaning besides the interpretations above?
Thanks!
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I've run into the following sentence:
[...] that we are building utopias in our virtualities that will finesse away the imperfections of human character.
I could not find in any place the meaning of "finesse away" as a phrasal verb.
Though I found this expression in some other contexts:
- Weak private investment means weak growth and bleak long-term employment prospects. There is no way to finesse away that fact.
- However, I think we can say with confidence that our awareness is rooted in the physical brain. This is where our conciousness exists, and I don't think we will ever be able to finesse away this fundamental dependency.
- However, rather than attempt to finesse away the concept of race, we should simply ask: in civic life, how much significance ought we to attach to racial difference?
- The dreaded alternative minimum tax, which was created to ensure that upper-income Americans would not be able to finesse away their tax obligations altogether, would be eliminated under the proposal.
- Together the EDGE architecture and its compiler finesse away much of the register renaming, CAMs, and complexity
- Let’s finesse away for the moment, exactly what “meanness” means.
- Follow up with McKee’s 37 Fast Polish to refine the finish, then finesse away any remaining blemishes and add the warm glow of carnauba with McKee’s 37 Jeweling Wax.
From uses above, I could guess "finesse away" could mean:
- something close to "circumvent", "avoid" (in sentences 1 to 5)
- "ignore" (in sentence 6)
- "subtly remove" (in sentence 7)
Except for sentence 7 (the only one I can clearly understand the choice of "finesse away" - to imply delicacy, subtlety), does "finesse away" carries any additional meaning besides the interpretations above?
Thanks!
meaning phrasal-verbs
asked 9 mins ago
Ricardo Baptista
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I've run into the following sentence:
[...] that we are building utopias in our virtualities that will finesse away the imperfections of human character.
I could not find in any place the meaning of "finesse away" as a phrasal verb.
Though I found this expression in some other contexts:
- Weak private investment means weak growth and bleak long-term employment prospects. There is no way to finesse away that fact.
- However, I think we can say with confidence that our awareness is rooted in the physical brain. This is where our conciousness exists, and I don't think we will ever be able to finesse away this fundamental dependency.
- However, rather than attempt to finesse away the concept of race, we should simply ask: in civic life, how much significance ought we to attach to racial difference?
- The dreaded alternative minimum tax, which was created to ensure that upper-income Americans would not be able to finesse away their tax obligations altogether, would be eliminated under the proposal.
- Together the EDGE architecture and its compiler finesse away much of the register renaming, CAMs, and complexity
- Let’s finesse away for the moment, exactly what “meanness” means.
- Follow up with McKee’s 37 Fast Polish to refine the finish, then finesse away any remaining blemishes and add the warm glow of carnauba with McKee’s 37 Jeweling Wax.
From uses above, I could guess "finesse away" could mean:
- something close to "circumvent", "avoid" (in sentences 1 to 5)
- "ignore" (in sentence 6)
- "subtly remove" (in sentence 7)
Except for sentence 7 (the only one I can clearly understand the choice of "finesse away" - to imply delicacy, subtlety), does "finesse away" carries any additional meaning besides the interpretations above?
Thanks!
meaning phrasal-verbs
asked 9 mins ago
Ricardo Baptista
41
I've run into the following sentence:
[...] that we are building utopias in our virtualities that will finesse away the imperfections of human character.
I could not find in any place the meaning of "finesse away" as a phrasal verb.
Though I found this expression in some other contexts:
- Weak private investment means weak growth and bleak long-term employment prospects. There is no way to finesse away that fact.
- However, I think we can say with confidence that our awareness is rooted in the physical brain. This is where our conciousness exists, and I don't think we will ever be able to finesse away this fundamental dependency.
- However, rather than attempt to finesse away the concept of race, we should simply ask: in civic life, how much significance ought we to attach to racial difference?
- The dreaded alternative minimum tax, which was created to ensure that upper-income Americans would not be able to finesse away their tax obligations altogether, would be eliminated under the proposal.
- Together the EDGE architecture and its compiler finesse away much of the register renaming, CAMs, and complexity
- Let’s finesse away for the moment, exactly what “meanness” means.
- Follow up with McKee’s 37 Fast Polish to refine the finish, then finesse away any remaining blemishes and add the warm glow of carnauba with McKee’s 37 Jeweling Wax.
From uses above, I could guess "finesse away" could mean:
- something close to "circumvent", "avoid" (in sentences 1 to 5)
- "ignore" (in sentence 6)
- "subtly remove" (in sentence 7)
Except for sentence 7 (the only one I can clearly understand the choice of "finesse away" - to imply delicacy, subtlety), does "finesse away" carries any additional meaning besides the interpretations above?
Thanks!
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