Sentence examples for delicate sort from inspiring English sources

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He softens his voice to imitate the director, William Gaskill, telling them: "'It's a very delicate sort of play, we've got to do it really delicately.' He dealt with it so gently," says Pickup, "that the full impact of it only crept up on us".

As the gefilte fish cooled, a jelly of an extraordinarily delicate sort coalesced, and, as a child, I had a passion for the fish balls and their rich jelly, along with the obligatory khreyn (Yiddish for horseradish).

Sharing the stage with a large, fuzzy piece of poultry might have daunted a more delicate sort of aspiring First Lady, but Obama took her eclipse by Cocky with the seen-it-all aplomb of one of the human characters on "Sesame Street".

This new novel, except for the accidents that took Mrs. Connulty's husband and Dillahan's first wife, is a delicate sort of drama — there is no corpse in the basement, no bomb lies hidden in any drawer — but even so, a reader will have his heart in his mouth for the last 50 pages.

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While more delicate sorts claim to find Christmas pud too "heavy", I've yet to meet anyone, regardless of religious affiliation, who eschews a Shrove Tuesday treat.

"They clearly don't have the personnel in place and the mindset to accomplish much in these delicate sorts of exchanges," said Joshua Pollack, a senior research associate with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

Bhi Bhiman What a voice Bhi Bhiman has: full-bodied and brawny but delicate, the sort of instrument that might encourage a singer to rest on his laurels and not worry about the words he applies it to.

Over the next few months, I consumed several of Mr. Darsky's pizzas, which in keeping with the Neapolitan ideal were intensely flavorful yet ineffably light and delicate, the sort of thing you might inhale in the blink of an eye.

"The idea was to create 'statement' pieces that are also delicate, and are sort of just fluid on a woman's body," Fusco says.

The one after that is a silk taffeta strapless gown with a really straight corset, and some really delicate tulle that sort of drapes over the corset, so it almost creates a shell.

First, the New York City native animator wrote a 52-page novella entitled Quincy And The Delicate Dandelions, a sort-of memoir that chronicles a string of his own failed relationships over a span of seven years.

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