As Minnelli describes the shoot in his autobiography, he found the dialogue fatuous, inadequate to the delicate, intimate grandeur of the moment — and instead of calling Nathan and Schrank for a rewrite or tweaking it himself, he threw the dialogue out altogether, resulting in an amazingly delicate, breath-holding sequence of more than two minutes of wordless yet profound communion.
Tube acts on it something like a thermostat, so delicate that breath throws the switch.
That view through the doorway ("Afternoon"), which brings to mind Delacroix's great little painting of his own studio, ranges from deep black to pale green, pink and yellow, the latter colors as delicate as breath on glass.
He coached me to swim in a relaxed, almost delicate, way, taking breaths, using my diaphragm to take in air instead of my chest.
As if that weren't joyful enough, they soon meet the cadaverous Dr. Cleave (Ian McKellen), who treats the more elaborate cases, arriving late for a party and explaining under his breath, "Rather delicate moment with our new matricide".
The sumptuous Art Nouveau details in the lobby alone will take your breath away: delicate wrought-iron vents, exquisite gold mosaic tiles, stained-glass windows and cupolas abound.
Working with a gentle breath along this delicate, soft tissue helps to harmonize the dualities such as yin/yang, female/male, creativity/intellect. My breathing workshop and the application that I designed, Breathing Lessons, are my way of giving people a means to enhance awareness in order to restore balance through a natural breathing pattern.
But tonight he's heard his daughter downstairs ahead of him, and the delicate hiccups of the little breath-intakes that are her version of crying when it's crucial she not be heard.
"Kármán" is loving, tragic, and empathetic, with a wryness so delicate it's almost holding its breath; "Clouds" is gently deadpan, interweaving the quotidian and the absurd.
Giving a scare is the last thing they would want to do to a man who works in the dead of the night, in the second and a half between heartbeats, while holding his breath, to manipulate such delicate figurines.
Made of layers of thin delicate tissue, designed to maximise exposure to breath, an adult's lungs would occupy over a thousand square feet: the equivalent to the leaf coverage of a mature oak tree.
