Gratien & Meyer Saumur, "Cuvée Flamme" (nonvintage) ($18) The Loire produces many of France's most elegant non-Champagne sparkling wines, including this delicate, lovely rosé made primarily from Cabernet Franc.
The title, The Boys Are Back, is awful (it was awful as the tagline for Entourage too), and the trailer makes it look treacly and cliched, but this delicate, lovely little film actually avoids those pitfalls.
In just a single season as the "pretty one" on "Charlie's Angels," Fawcett helped turn the show into an iconic hit and she paved the way for all the delicate lovelies now doing the Kevlar crouch on shows such as "CSI" and "Fringe".
REICHGRAF VON KESSELSTATT, MOSEL -SAAR -RUWER, PIESPORTER GOLDTROPFCHEN, KABINETT 1998: $20 Light, delicate and lovely, with peach and citrus flavors.
The cooking there was delicate and lovely, but its rather narrow band of Scandinavian flavors didn't suggest the exuberant range of tastes he has wheeled out at Pearl & Ash.
The result is an intimate tale that is "so foursquare, so delicate and lovely, that it has the power to exalt the reader," Verlyn Klinkenborg wrote in the Book Review in 1999.
Ms. de Medeiros's rendition of "The Song Is You," one of several versions of that Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern chestnut heard in the film, is as delicate and lovely as Ms. de Medeiros herself, an effect that is somehow heightened by a background chorus of Soviet hockey players.
"Nor is he delicate and lovely as most of us believe, but harsh and arid, barefoot and homeless" (Plato, 556 [Symposium 203b d]).
On March 8, Italian women receive branches of mimosa (a bush that blossoms at this time of year and has one of the most delicate and lovely perfumes I know).
It is a marvel that something so delicate and lovely holds water, can be the vessel for the stuff of life itself, and that it can last forever if lovingly cared for.
This was a lovely, delicate wine with gentle floral aromas, yet the flavors lingered.
