Sentence examples for delicate books from inspiring English sources

But they are delicate books, written in a tone that can feel no louder than a whisper.

He is also working with consultants to digitize the library so that scholars can examine its contents without harm to the delicate books and manuscripts.

There are the delicate books she made as a preteen, filled with intricate watercolors of fairies and flowers, and the perspective studies and figure drawings she did as an art student at London's Slade School of Fine Art, which she attended on full scholarship from 1937 to 1939.

[C2.] Publishers Seek Delicate Balance Book publishers like Judith Regan of HarperCollins face a delicate problem as they work to get back to business in the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Laurence Scott's The Four-Dimensional Human is a delicate, reflective book that compares our modern transformation to the Victorian preoccupation with a spiritual and science-fictional fourth dimension of being.

Often adorned with embossed stickers, colorful ribbons, and delicate paper, these books intend to be judged by their covers.

Everything that was rich and delicate in the book has been blown up, underlined, italicised.

New Mongolia, including multi-day trips by van into the Gobi Desert, surprisingly full of delicate purple flowers (book with popular hostel the UB Guesthouse.

How to convert such a delicate children's book to TV? Lovely hand-drawn animation does justice to Helen Oxenbury's illustrations of siblings embarking on an adventure; Michael Rosen's percussive, repetitive words present a bigger problem.

Although their crises — and the philosophical questions they raise — are of the greatest urgency and seriousness, "The Septembers of Shiraz" is miraculously light in its touch, as beautiful and delicate as a book about suffering can be.

So, acknowledging the delicate border between book reviewer and plot spoiler, here's a skeleton (honestly, even giving this much is a bummer): Lowboy is off his meds — which make him feel "like being pressed under glass" — and has just escaped his chaperones from a mental institution.