The phrase "a delicate ear" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is sensitive to nuances in sound, music, or conversation, often indicating a refined ability to appreciate or discern subtleties.
Example: "As a musician, she has a delicate ear for harmonies that most people would overlook."
Alternatives: "a keen ear" or "a sensitive ear".
That's when I noticed him several pillows away: a lanky man in a button-down shirt, his blond hair dangling over a delicate ear.
But underneath, other things are going on: sophisticated interruptions, cleverly placed accents, an off-kilter stream of music that always makes sense, a delicate ear for instrumental combinations.
She does not have a delicate ear for text, to put it mildly, and the house acting style of the SITI Company favors movement over literate interpretation.
But the feat of rescuing the dignity of the speakers from decades of humiliation required a rare and potentially treacherous combination of gifts: a delicate ear and a generous sympathy, a hellbent humor and a determined imperviousness to shame.
Since their first jewelry designs -- among them, four small pearls on a delicate ear wire worn by Kate Moss in her first Calvin Klein ad -- Rees and Anderson have never veered into trend-driven territory, but have instead designed original, heirloom-worthy, achingly gorgeous pieces.
Mr. Shinn remains one of the country's most gifted young playwrights, notable for his quiet humanism and a wonderfully delicate ear for dialogue that leaves much unsaid but little unknown.
Many systems transfer music with some fidelity, but few well enough to please a connoisseur's delicate ear.
Mammalian ears have three distinctive features: a tympanic membrane, or eardrum, that vibrates with incoming sound waves; three delicate ear bones that transmit the vibrations into the inner ear; and the cochlea, a fluid-filled coil of sensor cells that respond to vibrations at different frequencies, arranged from high to low like the keys on a piano.
Note of Gloom: Not only have Manhattan kids been deprived of the hurdy-gurdy, since it offended the delicate ear of Mayor LaGuardia, but now they've… The father of a seven-year-old son was trying to sleep late one morning.
Kind sir, please desist: it is offending our delicate ear trumpets.
Note of Gloom: Not only have Manhattan kids been deprived of the hurdy-gurdy, since it offended the delicate ear of Mayor LaGuardia, but now they've lost even the throaty oom-ph-ph which accompanies all normal merry-go-rounds.
