They pointed out the great whales' pelvic bones, which were small and delicate, like paper boats, and which hung under the immense spines.
"In shows like 'A Delicate Balance' or 'Show Boat,' I sell tickets together with a company.
A racing boat is delicate and slim, and rowers sit on seats that slide up and down a set of tracks.
Other kinds of human intrusion in these traditional paintings usually involved no more than a small boat, a delicate pagoda, a miniscule bridge, or the faint outlines of a thatched hut.
His stock includes a charming Victorian unpainted folding screen, a children's sleigh, two platform rockers (also called cat-tail-savers), low-slung boat chairs, delicate desks and a baby carriage whose wheels can be replaced with sled runners.
When the team neared the whale, the harpooner stood in the bow and darted his weapon — a delicate moment, given that the boat was nearly on top of an enormous creature about to be startled.
In Burckhardt's "Bunchberries, Deer Isle, 1955," delicate leaves float like paper boats on light rippling the forest floor.
And fishermen sell fresh and smoked fish straight from their boats, as well as delicate roe from vendace (a kind of whitefish), trout, herring and salmon.
Her continuing anxiety about money is striking, given her theater résumé, which includes big hits like "Company" in 1970, and the revivals of "Show Boat" in 1993 and "A Delicate Balance" in 1996.
The images of boats and wharves are as delicate as a Whistler etching, and, if Chaplin mastered the face in closeup, Griffith saw that human hands could be no less expressive.
The French authorities called it a "delicate operation," and at one point the fishing boat's captain fell into the ocean.
