To do otherwise, executives thought, was to risk confusing the customer and jeopardizing the delicate notion of what the company's brand represented.
"Seems a delicate notion for a hoodie, but were offended by none of it," Brooke Gladstone, host of WNYC's "On The Media," said last week at the end of a 19-minute segment on the show.
There are optimists, though, who while not excusing our worst excesses say Americans just need time to get used to a whole new social dynamic that flirts with fundamental -- and apparently very delicate -- notions of exclusivity, privilege and pride.
Rembrandt's "notions of the delicate forms of women would have frightened an arctic bear", snarked a much less distinguished painter, Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846).
This commonality provides collective support for the notion that the delicate balance of the dopamine system is crucial for memory retrieval, and imbalance in either direction (up or down) would cause deficits in memory pattern completion during recall.
Delicate floral prints on a tea-stained background struck a hip vintage note, though one wonders if sophisticated women will snigger at the notion of wearing nightgown prints and drapery backs swinging like a cottage curtain.
Delicate jazz chimes above.
I suppose there might be part of us flattered by the notion that women are delicate birds who just want to be tucked up under big papa's wing.
"It was a sea dragon and you think: 'My God, God has made some delicate things.'" Not all his notions are so spiritual, however; frustrated by his too-quiet acoustic guitar, he mumbles about it being a "motherfucker", and paces about the stage, as fanciful, yet real, as his songs.
