The phrase 'delicate performance' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use this phrase to describe a performance that was especially elegant or precise. For example, "The ballerina gave a delicate performance that captivated the whole audience."
The album opens with a pensive, delicate performance of Mr. Sorensen's short, hushed and enigmatic "Lullabies".
Now the actor Noomi Rapace joins their ranks by turning in her own delicate performance for this week's cover.
Also of interest is the delicate performance by a teen-age Hideko Takamine as the farm girl, Ine.
Silas Weir Mitchell anchors the show as Monroe, the beast who became Nick's first ally, in a deceptively delicate performance that constantly balances peace-loving, bourgeois nerdiness with steadfast, formidable strength.
That opera is older than the rest of the works Ms. Grimaud played, but in her delicate performance, simultaneously stark and melodic, the piece fit in perfectly with the rest of the program.
(Brantley) ★ 'Wit' Cynthia Nixon gives a large, lucid and delicate performance in this immaculately staged (and inevitably moving) revival of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama from 1998 about a terminally ill English professor.
Works by a master cellist are given fleet, delicate performances full of subtly sensuous life.
Among all the fine, delicate performances, Ms. Tomita's Lily is the most dazzling.
And – thanks to years of loving, careful, delicate performances by two of the finest actors ever to grace those fabled cobbles, Julie Hesmondhalgh and David Neilson – every moment, for the viewer, was a pleasure.
Gamble & Huff were a couple of years shy of their string-driven soft-soul peak, but songs such as Let Me Get in Your Way and Never Love Again are ornate, exquisite and just-so for the singer's most delicate performances.
Julia Roberts is a good actress, one remembers, and she's surrounded by rooted, delicate performances from (among others) James, Spacek, Whigham, Alex Karpovsky as a counselor and Jeremy Allen White as a member of Cruz's old unit who suspects that all at the honeycombed Homecoming Transitional Support Center is not what it seems.
