The resulting flakes are not much larger than grains of the fleur de sel that Mr. Keller favors; so delicate, in fact, that they make actual paper confetti seem crude.
More difficult to judge is when exactly the growing boy knew enough to be told or, more likely, to grasp for himself the delicate, unmentionable fact that in a family of long-living women, his was sure to be a protracted wait to inherit the throne to which – on the death of his grandfather, George VI, 15 months earlier – he had immediately become heir apparent.
Live broadcasts from TV studios, with their usual cocktail of papal passion and a delicate grip on facts, crowed about the "victory of democracy".
To Walk Invisible was, above all, true to Anne's heartfelt plea in the introduction to the second edition of Wildfell Hall – for people to abandon the "delicate concealment of facts – this whispering, 'Peace, peace' when there is no peace".
"If there were less of this delicate concealing of facts – this whispering, 'Peace, peace' when there is no peace – there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience".
A more delicate issue are "facts" about the future.
And yet, as Ms. Hudes described it, each play is a delicate negotiation between fact and fiction, between the experiences of her relatives and the dramatic necessity of the play.
Derek Brewer's Chaucer and His World set the tone 30 years ago; it evoked Chaucer as he might have been, treading the delicate line between fact and fancy with great skill.
Politically delicate though the fact may be, genetic differences play quite a role in determining beauty, health, intelligence and character.
In fact, the delicate little things are insulted by the assumption that the man will pay.
