"a delicate sense" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a person's ability to discern something with great sensitivity and accuracy. For example, "He had a delicate sense of humor that made everyone laugh."
During dinner, he returned sometimes to that mode, always with a delicate sense of comic timing.
In addition, Melville's early novels are thinly disguised memoirs that offer a delicate sense of his character and temperament.
However precise and tremor-free these robotic tools are, though, they lack one attribute that surgeons prize: a delicate sense of touch.
"Bishop had a magnificently refined capacity for observation combined with a highly privileged vantage point and a delicate sense of humor," Ms. Góes explained.
He brought to the latter an untiring dedication in the gathering and assimilation of knowledge, an especial alertness to evidence of human fallibility and failure, and a powerful ordering intelligence supported by a delicate sense of aesthetic coherence.
He films in a surprisingly straightforward way, but his compositions have a slightly off-balance skew, a subtly plastic play with space, and a delicate sense of comic timing.
"Victor had a very delicate sense of diplomacy and customs," said Robert Kirshner, an astronomer from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who said that Dr. Blanco and his wife Betty, also an astronomer, kept a list of all the marriages they had helped arrange.
The male body types represented in BL tend to project a wispy, delicate sense of beauty that seems to appeal mainly to its intended readership.
But the place itself -- its physical layout and especially the manners and speech patterns of its citizens -- breathes with an unusually delicate sense of reality.
While he maintained certain old practices, such as gold-leaf backgrounds, his figures in his "San Vincenzo Ferrer" and "San Vincenzo di Saragozza, Santa Illuminata and San Nicola di Tolentino," have a gentle luminosity, delicate sense of poise and are wonderfully natural in their portraiture.
Because the grandmother is mute, many of the scenes between her and Sang-woo unfold without dialogue, and Ms. Lee has a delicate visual sense.
