Kidd, who played soccer in high school, and Barbosa, a Brazilian who has soccer in his DNA, showed keen instincts and delicate touches.
During play, thinking and instinct coexist in delicate balance.
Boeing, for instance, offers an online "ethics challenge" where employees can test their moral instincts on such delicate issues as "acceptance of business courtesies" and "the minister drops a hint".
The slightly-built Pole's acute tennis instincts augment a delicate, well-crafted game, rich with touch and forethought but short on raw power, and, against another cerebral player in Li, her tennis brain was forced to click like a clock throughout a physically demanding match.
High professionalism, delicate coloration, and a skillful narrative instinct are apparent in this sweeping composition.
"On the surface she was frank but the more I talked to her, the more I realised that her delicate manner masked a ruthless survival instinct".
Yet while the Indian government's probable instinct is reasonable, its ability to execute this delicate manoeuvre is limited.
"Presenting an item is a delicate balance between being sophisticated yet appealing to buyers' bargain-hunting instinct," he said.
The young soprano Angelina Reaux, like her obvious role model Teresa Stratas, is a singer with unusually strong dramatic instincts and the will to transcend the image of opera singer as a delicate hothouse flower.
But the instinct that led him to stray is one shared by millions: smartphones are expensive, technologically perishable, physically delicate, thin on battery life, and cumbersome.
