Sentence examples for delicate calm from inspiring English sources

In one ecstatic drawing Saturn twists as if orgasmically around Philyra, a pillar of delicate calm in billowing drapery and balancing lightly on one foot.

Her impeachment risks upsetting the delicate calm that has prevailed in Thailand since the coup.The focus of the hearings, which may last several weeks, is a hare-brained and hugely costly rice-subsidy programme that aimed to boost the incomes of poor farmers.

Akten calls it an exploration of the dual nature of waves which he says are "simultaneously mighty yet delicate; calming yet terrifying; graceful yet violent; a symbol of fear, danger and death as well as hope, freedom and life".

Peters told me that the boy had been wrestling another kid near the cliffs, but here his contact looks almost delicate — the calm before the crash.

Instead they seemed calm, delicate, almost boring.

He's a calm, delicate player whose notes tend to be modest and precisely articulated.

After moving to L.A., she and three other musicians formed the band Lavender Diamond, which plays Joe's Pub March 7. Stark's music is not at all noisy — her breathy, pitch-perfect singing and calm, delicate arrangements suggest a slightly more posh version of the Carpenters or a less florid Tori Amos.

In Lacan's conceptual apparatus, jouissance sometimes likewise refers to an overriding force/tendency compelling repetitions of experiences or events upsetting the calm, delicate equilibrium of psychical subjectivity's Imaginary-Symbolic reality (hence the association of jouissance with the Real).

Still, serpentwithfeet somehow floats above it, a delicate falsetto fluttering, calm in the center.

You have to be calm and delicate".

Mr. Bush acknowledged that despite his desire to let the parties work out a settlement themselves, events were forcing his administration to try to calm a delicate situation.