The most beautiful moment, "Hotel Amour," written by Meow Meow and Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini, was a delicate, wistful reflection on a futile search for love that melted your heart.
A delicate, layered reflection that skips around through time, "The Hours," which opens today in New York, is Mr. Cunningham's homage to Woolf's first great novel, "Mrs. Dalloway," published in 1925.
Puw describes (a piece for solo piano, composed for the 2000 Bangor New Music Festival) as an "intimate reflection" upon the music of, and a tribute to, Robert Schumann, his "intricate compositional style" and "world of delicate expression".
Most of all it was a reflection of the delicate tightrope traversed by politicians promising something genuinely transformative.
In a reflection of the delicate moment in which Connecticut lawmakers find themselves, Mr. Jepsen was not joined publicly by the top Democratic leaders of the House or the Senate.
W. G. Sebald, Adam Zagajewski, Witold Gombrowicz and, in the title essay, the American writers Glenway Wescott, Randall Jarrell and Elizabeth Hardwick: refined, contemplative, elegiac -- writers of delicate remembrance and sober self-reflection.
Ms. Lee's vocal reserve complements her delicate playing on songs that stimulate reflection as well as dancing.
The Biennale's website calls the work a "clear example of that branch of contemporary art research which does not want just to surprise, but that wants to offer the start for reflections on actual and delicate issues".
The shimmers, delicate groans and sighing glissandos of "Nymphea Reflection" renew a pledge that so much of the 20th century forgot: music's obligation to be beautiful.
On reflection, however, I say screw the delicate corkscrews of peel, and get the toddy down you while it's hot.
