Sentence examples for delicate means from inspiring English sources

While Washington earned white allies through charm and diplomacy, he sometimes shored up his black support through less delicate means.

More delicate means exist to soften or modify these basic distinctions e.g., It's cold today, isn't it?; Isn't it still raining?; Shut the door, if you don't mind; Don't be long, will you?

It's a very pure color and shape, classically genuine and delicate, meant to set the actress apart from the crowd of very noisy circus designs that surround her.

This delicate attention means that all the different antennas, though miles apart on the plateau, work as a single telescope.

You can't even wash them before refrigerating because their delicate sensibilities means they'll rot under the weight of the water.

The delicate politics mean that Mr Mehdorn wants to avoid a damaging strike.

Parks Department rules prohibiting the use of heavy machinery on the park's delicate grass meant that Mr. Ratner had to import great swatches of artificial turf.

President Trump and the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un met in Singapore, the first such encounter between leaders of the United States and North Korea, and the opening step in a delicate dance meant to de-escalate tensions between the two countries.

If you have a cheap paint tray or something, you can just stand in it and roll your feet around, but if you have an actual resin box that was meant for this, you need to do it one foot at a time, because resin boxes are more delicate and meant for ballet dancers to use on their pointe shoes.

Officers have taken to social media to criticise the offices, saying that the format means delicate conversations can be overheard by other offenders and even reception staff.

Although it is by no means delicate, it is far less sturdy than modern tetrapoids, whose double sets of chromosomes produce stiffer stems and meatier flowers.