Sentence examples for delicate and fine from inspiring English sources

In 1896 there was scant interest in stories by a little-known writer, especially one whose prose was described as "delicate and fine".

With something as delicate as caviar, it's important to use a delicate and fine pasta so that it doesn't get in the way of the luxurious flavours and textures.

The Zipper salad (beets, peas, greens, mizuna) was delicate and fine, and unlikely to be duplicated over at M. & T. A block of monkfish, with fava beans and chunks of chorizo, had agreeable heft.

In 1547, a gift arrived at the Paris court of Henry II and Catherine de Medici: a ten-year-old boy named Petrus Gonzales, from Tenerife, whose genetic condition left him covered with hair (in the words of one witness) "of a light blond color and very delicate and fine, like the fur of a sable, and it smells good".

More than anything else, the book reveals Baldwin's immense will and professionalism; like the contemporary best-sellers "Ship of Fools" and "The Group," it suggests a delicate and fine-tuned talent pushed past its narrative limits in pursuit of the "big" work.

Since myelination depends on a delicate and fine-tuned balance of many factors [ 78], the multiple alterations observed here (Table  1) may well contribute to the failure of remyelination together with the induction of inhibitory mechanisms.

He roasts the fish whole, which enhances its cleanly delicate flavor and fine texture.

He specialized in tea ceremony wares, notable for their delicate shapes and fine glaze and decorated in traditional motifs.

Watson is the first to admit that his red hair, delicate skin and fine limbs perhaps do not qualify him as a regular ballet pin-up.

Mitsuoki's style is known for its delicate lines and fine delineation, typical of the Tosa school, but he also adopted some techniques and Chinese subject matter from the popular and powerful Kanō school.

That is a noble goal, I think, particularly after my experience of building a computer: a hobbyist's nightmare, it might have seemed from the piles of boxes and bubble wrap, the colored cables and seemingly interchangeable pieces of industrial circuitry, the Medusa-headed power supply with its score of snakelike wires, the motherboard with its delicate protrusions and fine screws.