Massimo De Martini's face assumes a look of concentrated pleasure as he slips the delicate sheet of paper, 16in by 27in, from its protective plastic sleeve.
And for some reason, not quite everybody in the sprawling restaurant is plowing through baby-leek frittura or heaps of mandilli with almond pesto, but that may be just an optical illusion — the guy manipulating the delicate sheets of mandilli pasta over in a corner of the open kitchen seems to be the busiest man in the restaurant.
First, Conant swoons over the pappardelle, delicate sheets of pasta in a ragu Bolognese "vecchia scuola" with 48-month Parmigiano-Reggiano.
This is exemplified by a series of small tabletop pieces from 1976 that suspend delicate sheets of plastic printed with red or yellow grids or green leaves from little goal posts of wire embedded in wood bases.
Delicate sheets of cellulose with electrodes attached could be used to make microrobots, biodegradable sensors, and paper airplanes that flap like birds.
It looks like extremely thin and delicate sheets of silver or gold foil, but it is perfectly edible.
In "Loving Care" (1993), she washed the floor with her hair; in "Butterfly Kisses" (also 1993), she used her mascaraed eyelashes to trace patterns both dense and delicate onto a sheet of paper.
For the "Carceri" works, I set up a variety of mark-making implements -- among them acrylic paint, charcoal, conte, oil pastel, ink, graphite -- alongside the edge of a large sheet of delicate Japanese paper in a random, chaotic order.
Ms. Lee, who is 33, assembled for this exhibition a delicate installation consisting of dozens of aluminum foil pods or vessels placed in rows along sheets of Saran wrap stretched between the gallery walls.
Outstanding healthcare design requires a delicate balance of interdependent characteristics.
A delicate division of labour enables supplying to niche demand.
