Sentence examples for delicate men from inspiring English sources

"I've always been described as a hard-charging woman in the midst of delicate men," she said.

Cynthia and Hugh fall in love, although, like most pale, delicate men in 19th-century amatory tales, he is bound to die young.

Ferris Greenslet, the Lowells' biographer, found frequent examples of "high-strung delicate men, prone to overwork and periods of nervous exhaustion".

One chapter of the pamphlet describes the physiognomy of the "sodomitical type", claiming that gentle, soft, and delicate men are predisposed toward sodomy.

He was a thin, delicate man with sunken cheeks and a frail chest.

All agreed that he was a fine and delicate man, worryingly so, for these were not times for such men.

And his reminiscences over that day, along with the enthusiasm that they inspire, are not those of a delicate man.

His predecessor John Paul I, an amiable but delicate man, had died soon after his election, and the Catholic church itself was close to disarray.

"I guess I've always been a delicate man," Matt Berninger implored us, in those sumptuous baritone tones of his, on "Lemonworld".

It was hard to imagine this frail, delicate man-child surviving a lengthy stretch in the hard-as-nails California state prison system.

He is a thin, delicate man with wire-frame glasses, but neither his slightness nor his way of talking like a corny Hollywood thug makes you any less afraid of him.