The sceptics will see Balotelli as the sort of erratic player and combustible personality who could upset the delicate dressing room balance and work ethic Rodgers has strived so hard to build up so successfully in his two seasons at Liverpool.
Whether riding a horse or walking into a room, friends say, Alexandra Lammers had a strikingly delicate way of carrying herself.
Don't waste any of the delicate flesh to make room for the stuffing – just pack it on top of the halved vegetable.
In most cases with heated rooms, the vapour condenses as a liquid first, but if the conditions are right, as in an unheated room, the delicate, pure crystalline forms are predominant, evoking a variety of fanciful descriptions.
His deft rendering of the rest of the room — the delicate pattern on the bedspread, the floral still life on a shelf on the other side of the bed, the cool, clear light — generates an almost mystical mood.
The rich, cream-and-chocolate room furnishings, delicate finger foods and "speed networking" sessions at the five-star Jumeirah Carlton Tower hotel in Knightsbridge, London, are just what you would expect from an oil industry get-together.
Big shaggy things the size of a baby's hand, they roamed the basement of my parents' house, and evoked from my sisters the prolonged, spine-tingling screams called for in movies when the mummy invades the delicate lady's dressing room.
It depends whether they care about fifty delicate egos in the room or the 200 million people watching at home who want a laugh.
The place where I sat fairy princess-style, watching Ms. Larkin skip around the room, a delicate crystal prism dangling from her fingertips.
