Sentence examples for delicate people from inspiring English sources

"We always had the impression that foreign musicians are very delicate people," said Natalya Voinova, assistant concertmaster of the Moscow Symphony.

She could take offence in an instant, but like many delicate people, could be just plain rude without noticing.

"2 p.m.," an Iverson-written tribute to Paul Motian, rode an off-angled structure to a tangled sprint between the pianist and Redman, and the saxophonist was at the heart of the delicate "People Like You," which the group dedicated to Haden.

That might be a better lesson to teach our daughters -- who are playing because they love the thrill of competition -- rather than the idea that they are delicate, emotionally fragile people who need to be protected from embarrassment.

Separated from Robert by only a delicate membrane, people were blowing their noses and talking on phones.

RULES OF ROMANCE A Delicate Balance People living in nursing homes have rights and responsibilities governing their sexual expression.

Pale-fleshed and much more delicate than people think, it has more character than, say, your average ultra-mild white fish, like flounder.

"It's something delicate that people don't like to talk about, but we have to get ready for the next generation" of both musicians and fans, said Ulrich Pierre-Louis, a son of the Septen founder who is also a band manager.

That's what you would see in my house: a black-and-white stone lithograph of Barnum, so delicate most people think it is a pencil drawing, in between an 18th-century unillustrated playbill of a 'teritoepiest painter' capable of rendering a picture in under two minutes of a subject mentally chosen by a spectator, and an image of a juggler balancing a piano on his head while playing a trumpet".

"It is delicate because people's belongings are private," said Hill.

But our 'Nam was not the Vietnam back home: These were entirely different concepts that shared only the name of a lovely and badly scarred country in Southeast Asia, whose delicate-looking people, history and customs very few of us -- "in country" or "in the world" -- ever bothered to learn about.