Ms. McCarthy, too, can be deceptively delicate.
A small, deceptively delicate looking woman, Lida and her family were the first official Maltese refugees.
"Shadows" continues a trend in recent Teenage Fanclub albums of ruminative, deceptively delicate songs tinged with darkness.
This deceptively delicate take on the immigrant experience in late 1990s New York has an almost Cinderella-like structure.
Models of compression, they show us how much (character, plot, subplot, psychology, wit and depth) can be poured into a thin, deceptively delicate vessel.
Darnielle's songs hardly need ornamentation, though - deceptively delicate, they offer glimpses into the relentless romantic vicissitudes of recurring Mountain Goats characters "the Alpha couple".
Silas Weir Mitchell anchors the show as Monroe, the beast who became Nick's first ally, in a deceptively delicate performance that constantly balances peace-loving, bourgeois nerdiness with steadfast, formidable strength.
(Dargis) * 'SHOPGIRL' (R, 107 minutes) This delicate, deceptively simple film, taken from Steve Martin's novella, spins perfect romance out of loneliness, compromise and the possibility of heartbreak.
(Holden) * 'SHOPGIRL' (R, 107 minutes) This delicate, deceptively simple film, taken from Steve Martin's novella, spins perfect romance out of loneliness, compromise and the possibility of heartbreak.
Heather Phares of Allmusic commended Goldfrapp for their "artistic risk-taking", but noted that the album "sounds unbalanced, swinging between delicate, deceptively icy ballads and heavier, dance-inspired numbers without finding much of a happy medium between them".
The work has been described by Laura Saetveit Miles, a Yale University researcher of medieval manuscripts, as "one of the most admired fifteenth-century Middle English lyrics [which] offers, within a deceptively simple form, an extremely delicate and haunting presentation of Mary (the 'mayden / þat is makeles') and her conception of Christ ('here sone')".
