'delicate condition' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
This phrase could be used, for example, to describe a person's physical or mental health, the state of a relationship, or a difficult decision that needs to be made: Her health was in a delicate condition and the doctor suggested she get more rest.
The ship was in delicate condition, he told me, but resting stably.
This is for conservation reasons, as the volume is in delicate condition.
One of the injured crew members was reported in "delicate condition".
"We needed to reduce the handling of the shoes because of their delicate condition," said Jane Klinger, the chief conservator.
"Because of the dignity of the occasion, Miss Bening's delicate condition and the recipient's advanced age, there will be no sex jokes," Mr. Nicholson said.
And Mr. Reaños had no idea what delicate condition his cousin was in, that he was barely ambulatory, brain-injured and could not talk, he said.
In these delicate conditions the family in a first place, and the social environment in a second, become of crucial importance for the acceptance of the illness: parents should encourage their children not to hide their condition, thus contributing to increase their self-esteem [ 38, 39].
Mr. Johnson's delicate political condition has also chilled potential Republican opposition in the state that turned the Democratic leader Tom Daschle out of the Senate in 2004.
His delicate political condition brought him to the University of Connecticut Health Center, which obliged his desire for a health care forum by organizing a celebration of President Obama's order lifting federal restrictions on research involving human embryonic stem cells.
Drogba wore a light protective cast on his arm during practice yesterday and continued doing ball work today but, according to the Ivory Coast manager, Sven-Goran Eriksson, is still in too delicate a condition to risk physical contact with other players.
