"I feel like I'm being more direct, and hopefully more delicate," she explains.
"The room looks traditional, but it's a place that is not delicate," Mr. Montoya explained.
This fusing process would be so delicate, he explained, that the engineers required that it be performed only at dawn — after the building had cooled off during the night, guaranteeing that the steel was of equal temperature.
The delicate negotiations explain why the prime minister was so relieved by the result of the referendum, a point illustrated when he told the former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, in an unguarded moment a few days later, that she had "purred down the line" when he informed the monarch that her kingdom remained intact.
Harrison likes to point to a clinical setting in which a doctor has the delicate task of explaining mortality risks to patients recently diagnosed with a disease.
Today, the high-profile dismissals were announced and Mr. Gao had the delicate task of explaining what he tried to describe as incompetence and mistakes in the city's public health system.
Given that many of those present will have paid hundreds of pounds to watch a sport that they've never seen before, it is incumbent on Locog to strike a delicate balance between explaining the subtleties and pleasing the purists.
In stepping aside, Mr. Lay left to Mr. Skilling -- whose manner was seen by many as far more abrasive and abrupt -- the delicate task of explaining Enron to its critics.
Fighting with a child to give him insulin injections is hard, but finding delicate ways of explaining mortality to a preteen is devastating.
Instead, you find a delicate way of explaining that you are enjoying yourself, but you wouldn't be here if they weren't paying you.
