The turning point arrived at Worthy Farm last June as their volatile sound, which at its best balances the heaviness of classic rock with the more delicate proportions of its indie cousin, closed the main stage on the Friday.
I loved their complex flavors and their delicate proportions.
The paper observed that it is a mistake to consider Pinafore a burlesque, "for while irresistibly comical it is not bouffe and requires to be handled with great care lest its delicate proportions be marred and its subtle quality of humor be lost".
In recent years, both the Whitney Museum in New York and the Kimball Museum in Fort Worth have been spared -- after much controversy -- massive additions that would have overwhelmed the delicate balance of their proportions.
Tackling this question requires a delicate balance.
The proportions of the horse received the greatest amount of criticism, with observers calling it "too light, too delicate, too thin, too timid, and dreadfully proportioned".
Still, in popular imagination, Barbie is Barbie: The blond teenager with unrealistic proportions and delicate feet made just-so for stepping out in high heels.
The two works on the program--Berlioz's song-cycle Les Nuits d'été (Summer Nights) and Rimsky's "symphonic suite" Scheherazade--made an unlikely pair, the one a gossamer thing of modest proportions and delicate expression, the other a rip-snorting war-horse of the pops repertoire.
If he gets it right, we'll see a delicate appreciation for scale and proportion - learned at Jefferson's "Academical Village" and refined in Vicenza and Venice - with designs filtered through a modernist's spare and reductive lens.
Later, he met with popular success with his delicate figurines, graceful "Dolphins", strange proportions of peacocks, and portrait heads of children.
