A delicate cover of Keane's Somewhere Only We Know for John Lewis's Christmas ad campaign was followed by the boisterous satire of Hard Out Here.
He's only got 20 minutes on stage, so he jokingly churns out the first few bars off all his main hits in order to cram everything in, before starting properly with a delicate cover of Richie Havens' I Can't Make It Any More.
In "Hunger" he shrunk into the mere essence of a man, delicate bones covered by gossamer flesh, as Bobby Sands, the Irish Republican Army hunger striker.
The journalist, Khadzhimurad Kamalov, 46, was the founder of Chernovik, a popular muckraking newspaper that covered delicate issues like police abuse, corruption and Islamic extremism in Dagestan, a mostly Muslim region neighboring Chechnya.
Standout appetizers include sopes ($5.95), thick but delicate corn tortillas covered in avocado salsa and a fragrant sauce of fermented black beans, and a savory quesadilla ($6.95) with chorizo and roasted tomatoes, flavored with a smoky chipotle salsa.
Even covered in delicate frost, it looked distinctly unglamorous.
Covered with delicate, almost Impressionist brushwork, they are more markedly evocative of Johns-Rauschenberg precursors.
"That?" she said, when I pointed to a seductively fragrant tree covered with delicate white blossoms.
It's amazing to see the solid letter form covered in delicate foil, and brought to life with light.
In the middle of the room is an unusual winding column covered with delicate carvings that look like rolled leaves.
