It is in such delicate probing of the surface of social life that Gay excels.
When the girl's family is held in a hospital, following rumors that the beast may be the source — the host — of a menacing virus, we get a delicate probing of the generational split.
It seems barely credible that Victorians once flocked in droves to private Bloomsbury consulting rooms to have costly quacks with delicate fingers probe the surface of their heads looking for bumps and depressions indicating the relative strength of such qualities as benevolence, veneration and firmness, or to assay how much "amativeness" — sexual desire — might lie untapped within your skull.
Stiff probes are capable of overcoming surface attraction forces, while delicate flexible probes are capable of making contact with a sensitive part without causing damage.
While it doesn't sound sexy, it harnesses the power of light from distant stars and galaxies to probe delicate structures on Earth, so that's an undeniable plus.
This year, he's shown a bit more nuance with the ball in his hands, suggesting he's picked up a thing or two from Paul in to the delicate timing of probing and compromising a defense without losing control.
In the present study, we have taken advantage of the sensitivity of SPR, which allowed us to probe the delicate interaction between polymerases and DNA strands containing arylamine DNA lesions at the binary and ternary complex levels.
In typically quirky and delicate style, Burton is probing away at such matters as cultural snobbery, sexism, the predicament of married women in late 1950s America, and artistic jealousy.
Thanks to the ubiquitousness and affordability of these shielded, 4-wire cables, this solution aims at representing an alternative to expensive and delicate glass-based platinum probes, normally used in the study of stratified flows.
United were strong, muscular and stoic, while Celtic kept probing for the delicate, subtle pass.
