Sentence examples similar to a delicate theme from inspiring English sources

PARIS — Swapping the incendiary feel of last year's motor show in Frankfurt for a more delicate theme here — in a phrase, ballerinas and bubbles — the Volkswagen Group unofficially opened the press days on Wednesday night with a half-dozen premiers before a mass of media.

This is a delicate subject, but the question of roots has been a theme in elections in Italy, Austria, Germany, France and Britain, and to say it is irrelevant is a mistake.

Race remains a delicate subject.

This is a delicate topic.

Rainer, another brain, is a delicate topic.

Patient safety can be a delicate subject.

Make a delicate paper orchid.

Sometimes that can overpower the clothes, but this season Bailey's delicate theme – the English Rose – was handled with an admirably light hand.

The crushing rejection of the constitution in referenda in France and the Netherlands taught Germany's political class that the delicate theme of Europe should never simply be put to a yes-no vote.

In painstakingly diplomatic language, acknowledging "the particular sensitivity" of "this delicate theme," Mr. Stepashin asked forgiveness on behalf of Tolstoy, who was excommunicated 110 years ago.

Fugard, born of English and Afrikaans parents, suggested that playwrights are wary of criticising delicate themes like Muslim extremism or black corruption, adding: "That's part of the problem".