Bartoli then slows the pace, touching a delicate drop-shot over the net and although Stephens gets there easily, her forehand clips the net-cord and drops wide.
An early cycle of movement has the dancers slumping repeatedly on to the floor: they seem to be in a rage, but when the movement is repeated at a drastically slower pace the infinitesimally delicate crumpling of their bodies looks like something out of Japanese theatre.
And even more curiously, over the past two centuries, it has rarely been played, meaning it is in uniquely superb condition, with little signs of the wear-and-tear that inevitably come from putting a delicate wooden instrument through its paces every day.
"That vodka was good for the heart," he jokes, keeping pace with her, maintaining the delicate rhythm they have tried to establish.
"Now, Boris Yeltsin had a theory.... " "That vodka was good for the heart," he jokes, keeping pace with her, maintaining the delicate rhythm they have tried to establish.
The stop-and-go pace illustrates Vivendi's increasingly delicate negotiating position as it tries to balance several competing interests in its effort to sell assets to pay down its debt.
Bell, a man whose delicate, caressing late cut sliced the Australian pace attack to pieces, nods in recognition.
This delicate balance is now threatened by the unprecedented pace and magnitude of global climate change and anthropogenic pressure.
Felix stepped back a pace and returned her evasiveness with a delicate smile.
They are also a little surprising, particularly considering how delicate venture partnerships tend to be, and the typical pace of announcing general partners, which is rarely ever monthly, even at the biggest firms in the world.
Mesut Ozil with a delicate flick on to Olivier Giroud as Arsenal inject some pace into an attack but it's not under the Frenchman's spell and Reading's narrow back line clear.
