Having learned how to perform the delicate ballet between car, pedestrian, and Vespas while living in Rome, I don't give crosswalk signals more than a second glance.
People with delicate sensibilities garnished their car with a device called the Donna Lee Automobile Disseminator — a porous vase guaranteed, according to Sears, to fill the car with a "faint clean odor of lavender".
Use sandpaper on delicate parts of your car.
Another German toy, the Märklin Fidelitas, a whimsical three-foot-long train of delicate hand-painted clown cars, brought $103,500, the highest sale price at the first auction.
The Lord Of The Hood referees the unruly scrum as far as is possible, but with no teams and no real rules his role is most often limited to trying to steer the sway away from parked cars and delicate fences, as dents and destruction often ensue.
Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik said that Mr. Varacalli, 58, whom he described as a Genovese crime family figure, had made more than $2.5 million a year stealing cars to order and dispatching thieves to tear the delicate air bags from specific cars, based on orders from auto parts shops around the city that were in on the scheme.
The first Porsche 911 of 1965 was clean and slim-hipped; a delicate, chic, 130-horsepower sports car on narrow 15-inch steel wheels.
Controlling the big car is a delicate dance; the accelerator is not a pedal but a peg — and it is placed between the clutch and brake pedals.
But now they returned: tens of thousands of them, horrifying but harmless, drunk-driving through the air so that they bumped into heads and ears, encrusting telephone poles and parked cars with their delicate, amber-hued, almost Egyptian discarded shells.
Masking the car off is a delicate art.
