How can anything so delicate have so much flavor?
On the runways, the more delicate shoes, so much easier for the models to navigate in than the high and wobbly platforms, have changed the look of the clothes.
But she is breaking some of the nation's most delicate political china, so much so that one recent Vancouver newspaper article described her as the "the Mick Jagger of the accounting profession".
The selection process is different to 12 years ago when each of the four home unions supplied a selector, but it remains a delicate balance, not so much an avoidance of trampling on national sensibilities as spotting potential partnerships and identifying players who will not allow personal disappointment to pollute the team environment.
"It was a really delicate operation and so much was at stake, particularly as we had never been involved in anything like this before.
When you get it super-fresh, it has such a delicate texture and so much more flavour.' The garden and the menu are planned together, and vegetables star in the dishes, from rocket pappardelle with carrots, fennel and goat's cheese, to kale salad with apples, roasted shallot and red wine vinaigrette.
She was a delicate presence — not tentative so much as gentle.
"It's so delicate that if you so much as look at it, it just vanishes," she said.
It was salmon pink, and he was struck by the luscious fabric and the delicate stitching: "I felt so much admiration for it.
You would never expect to find so much delicate writing for harp and celesta, or so many plaintive solos for horn and muted trumpet, in a work on this subject.
I saw it from a picture, and in person it was much more delicate, so I went with a completely different idea.
