Sentence examples similar to a delicate knock from inspiring English sources
The symmetry of these proposals was highly delicate -- knocking out any element collapsed the whole.
One of Scorsese's goals is to paint a more realistic portrait of an American family, particularly a dysfunctional one in which tensions already exist, merely waiting for an outside force to arrive and knock a delicate situation completely out of whack.
Those reforms were widely seen as knocking a delicate constitutional relationship off balance.
But it can actually be more comforting for the novice to know that a careless brush with the fin or a misplaced hand in those early hours of learning - when the whole weight-belt, buoyancy, kicking in a straight line-thing is so alien - is not going to knock off a delicate coral strand of global importance or slice your pinkie in two.
If you were to choose a delicate room divider screen, you may find that constant knocking and battering will soon leave it looking not quite as good as it should do.
Theirs is a delicate task.
That is a delicate balance.
A delicate and difficult interview.
I keep a delicate distance".
