Sentence examples for delicacy about from inspiring English sources

The next time I watched my tablemates and I saw that for all its primitive excess, there's a delicacy about eating carne en vara.

She writes with a stringent delicacy about sickness and marriage in "Fantastic Voyage," one of the more polished pieces in the collection.

Although the children must be middle aged now and the husband has not, some readers may conclude, done very much to merit such delicacy about his feelings, Olds remains protective.

It is an exceedingly expensive delicacy (about fifty dollars for a few thin slices), and on special occasions Mr. Ishii delivers a provision to the emperor's palace, molded with the imperial mark, a sixteen-petalled chrysanthemum.

Julie Burchill has probably been the most egregious example in Britain for some time, writing newspaper columns with her customary delicacy about her abject admiration of "the Jewish people".

In the middle of the set Mr. Gilberto sang "Estate," a ballad in Italian about how summer's joys give way to winter, paring back the guitar part to bleakly tolling chords and singing with inconsolable delicacy about dying of sorrow.

At last night's Book Club event, he talked to a packed, attentive room about the delicacy required when writing about suicide, the way he goes about choosing the situations in which he locates his characters, and how it feels to write as a woman.

But Maine, or northern, shrimp -- Pandalus borealis and Pandalus jordani -- are a modest delicacy, with about 40 whole unshelled shrimp in a pound, as against 15 or so cocktail shrimp from southern waters without the heads.

Before dining on the French delicacy, learn about its origins on a tour of L'Escargot du vieil amandier, a snail farm in the northern Ventoux area of Provence, France.

The Greek, eidata, means something like "small dishes" or "delicacies" — what about "mezze," one reader suggested?

The officials spoke anonymously because of the delicacy of talking about chemical weapons intelligence.