You could say the delicate, half-inch flowers look like purple dandruff on a clean white collar, or like a floral Rorschach test.
In the second Roddick broke in the fifth thanks to two great forehand shots down the line and a delicate half-volley.
In the 55th minute, Michael Bradley lofted a pass to the top of Bosnia's penalty area, where Altidore hit a delicate half-volley with his left foot to his running mate up front, Eddie Johnson, who scored to cut the lead in half.
Once he understood how much pain there would be, once he found his old rhythm again, Sampras was able to prop himself up with his serve and steady his attack with a series of delicate half-volleys in a 2-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 display of third-round resiliency.
It comes in dead soft, half-hard and full-hard, which is a scale from very delicate to extremely tough.
The lower gluten content gives you a delicate texture, but half a cup is plenty.
The spicy tuna gyoza were another disappointment — not the usual delicate, pan-seared half-moons, but fried won tons set on guacamole, which turned the bottoms soggy.
On a second visit to the store, I happened upon a quiet sale at which much of that delicate Cucinelli was half-priced, including an austere powder blue puffy vest (originally $1,315), and a lavender sweater, which fit beautifully and which now lives at my house.
At lunchtime, groups slipping into and out of English, French, Spanish and Italian pulled up to tables under a shaded patio at the restaurant and ordered delicate salads, ceviche and half portions of risotto.
Even when Romero bundled home with just over quarter of an hour to go, to cut the deficit opened up by Alonso's fashionably delicate penalty just after half time, it only served to briefly disturb the Sounders fans' sense of expectation, if not entitlement.
