In its own minimalist way it becomes a thoughtful, delicate inquiry into the essence of the artistic process and a tribute to the beauty and mutability of nature.
That's a "Delicate" question.
At its best, his prose complements this delicate inquiry, simultaneously exhibiting grace and exactitude.
He has presided over several delicate inquiries, but none so delicate as the task he completed Wednesday night: presiding over the formal admonishment of Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority leader and one of the most powerful Republicans in Washington, for the second time in a week.
A veteran Central Intelligence Agency field operative has charged that before Sept. 11 the agency had largely been out of the spy business for years, not hiring new agents and avoiding delicate inquiries for fear of embarrassing itself, other nations or the White House.
And if there were times when I could and did forget myself, then being visibly different meant racist taunts, or more delicate inquiries of "But where are you really from?" would always alert me to the ambivalence of my social identity: culturally invisible but hyper-visible nevertheless.
The secret police arrive and make less than delicate inquiries of Magda, John's mother (or is it her mother? the libretto has it both ways) and much is made of the sickly nature of the Sorel infant (foreshadowing!) So Magda heads off to the consulate where, like the beginning of Casablanca, she waits.
The federal inquiries come at a delicate time for the long-term care industry.
Tackling this question requires a delicate balance.
The inquiry, like many such investigations, was a delicate one.
Mr. Starr's inquiry has placed the Secret Service's uniformed officers in a delicate position.
