The phrase "delicate skills" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase whenever you need to emphasize the subtleties and finesse of a particular skill set. For example, "The surgeons at this hospital have very delicate skills and great attention to detail."
Orchestrated post-Wozzeck in 1928, they called for more delicate skills.
Revitalized and treated with the delicate skills that make all the difference between the word "seduction" in French and in English, even the clothes looked sensual and classy.
An evening gown, showing pink ribbons down the backbone as the model writhed on a wine red sofa, was a reminder of the designer's delicate skills.
A4 Circus Ensemble find some lovely moments thanks to delicate skills; a performer moves around a suspended hula hoop, paper umbrellas are set rotating on the top of another's feet.
But unexpectedly, delightfully, she's an environmentalist who loves the scale, ingenuity and power of engineering -- her description of the Dutch Oosterschelde Storm Surge Barrier approaches the erotic -- and appreciates the delicate skills and realistic minds of the politicians and the regional authorities who govern the water.
It's a delicate skill, and authors like Ruth Rendell have made it into something of an art form.
Sneery types, then and now, called it Laura Ashley cinema, but that's to demean its delicate skill.
It's a specialized, delicate skill, more common among British than American stars, and part of the highly satisfying spectator sport of watching expert performers juggle jeweled words.
Mr. Kasprzak is one of 10 dancers in "Revolution," a show that improbably combines the delicate skill of tap-dancing with the raucous sound of live rock.
Today that sadomasochistic terrain has been so well tilled that Strindberg's symbol-freighted psychodrama can register as campy melodrama unless it's performed with brute conviction and delicate skill.
Her camera gently forces us into intimacy with the pain of other ordinary people and makes it our own, while we, paradoxically, admire the delicate skill with which Ms. Wearing pulls the whole thing off.
