Mr. Lorry, you cannot control the mincing vanities and giddinesses of empty-headed girls; you must not expect to do it, or you will always be disappointed.
Take cooking for example, my least favorite part about cooking always used to be the prep, dicing vegetables, mincing garlic, trimming meats, anything that had to do with a knife.
Though he yearned for the defeat of the fascist invaders, he makes German soldiers out to be not monsters, but like their Soviet counterparts—humans consigned to an inhuman mincing machine.
You must be higher than ourselves. It was for Una that the Red Cross Knight did war. For no painted, mincing court dame could the dragon have been slain.
" Then you mean to tell me, Mr. Lorry, " said Stryver, squaring his elbows, " that it is your deliberate opinion that the young lady at present in question is a mincing Fool" ?