The phrase "a difficult and delicate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation, task, or subject that is both challenging and requires careful handling or consideration.
Example: "Negotiating the terms of the contract was a difficult and delicate process that required patience and skill."
Alternatives: "a challenging and sensitive" or "a tough and fragile".
"But it's a difficult and delicate issue," she said.
For city officials, accepting this tourism has been a difficult and delicate balancing game.
There are a variety of risks that we face in that region, and it's a difficult and delicate situation".
But Greece also faces a difficult and delicate challenge: It has to protect its democracy against those who would subvert it, or face a backlash with unpredictable consequences if Golden Dawn can make the case that it is the patriotic victim of political persecution.
The omission of Hamas from any talks between the Israelis and President Mahmoud Abbas, who controls only the West Bank, had always been a landmine that risked blowing up a difficult and delicate peace process, but so have Israel's own internal political divisions.
That would be a difficult and delicate practical question of how to apportion one's research effort that for the purposes of this essay we must set aside.
The House Judiciary Committee chairman, Henry Hyde, praised the bill as a "very reasonable treatment of a very difficult and delicate issue" and promised a prompt hearing -- a pledge the Senate Judiciary chairman, Orrin Hatch, should match.
Our Society is facing a very difficult and delicate situation.
"This gets the federal court involved in a very difficult and delicate question of who's going to pay for this at a time when the state and the city are facing significant fiscal burdens," said an assistant corporation counsel, Jon Pines.
But even if the Sony release blows the doors off the box office like, well, 007 making a grand entrance, it can't hide what those who worked on it quietly acknowledge — making this movie was a more difficult and delicate undertaking than ever.
This is certainly an extremely difficult and delicate process where there is much fear, remorse and recrimination on both sides.
