Someone once said that a university is a rare, delicate, antique crystal bowl.
It was a rare, delicate exchange, negotiated over years, between enemies who do not officially recognize each other.
The only time it is truly important to match food and wine carefully and properly is with a rare, delicate and expensive bottle, when it would be a shame to miss out on the nuances and complexities.
With such a rare and delicate predator-prey dynamic, the number of human visitors is limited.
Its most oddball and antic moments yield a rare and delicate poignancy; its artificial situations deliver real emotion.
As a nation, Scotland has neglected its Gaelic culture and language; allowing it to wither from lack of funding at a time when Ireland and Wales, by comparison, are eager to preserve and nourish their ancient tongues, each in the knowledge that they have been bequeathed a rare and delicate gift.
The movie doesn't offer much in the way of what the professionals call production values — there isn't a lot of attention paid to creating a smoothly lighted and eye-guiding picture (so often, movie lighting weighs on a film like movie music, aggressively programming the viewer's emotional response) — but Ross's images, for all their apparent casualness, display a rare and delicate wit and whimsy.
A recent work can be scanned by machine, but a rare or delicate work cannot be, because such works may be damaged by the scanner.
This is not to say Carter, Politician, was a rare and delicate bird, beautiful and free of sin; Zbigniew Brzezinski and Hamilton Jordan do not get hired by men without ambition and a rap sheet.
Some companies across the U.S. will actually agree to store your wine for you for a fee; if you are in possession of a rare or delicate bottle of wine that you aren't planning on drinking any time soon, this is probably your absolute best bet for storage.
According to MTV, the 33-year-old singer, who Stella McCartney calls "the whole package: primal, rare, delicate, beautiful and powerful" in a preview for the story, is the third black female, after Naomi Campbell and Halle Berry, to appear alone on the September cover.
