Sentence examples for delicate to the point from inspiring English sources

On Ms. Gainsbourg's 2006 CD "5:55," her first album after a 20-year musical hiatus, she sounded weighed down by her patrimony, singing in a voice delicate to the point of self-effacing amid orchestral pop arrangements that explicitly echoed her father's records.

It's delicate to the point that you worry it might start fraying at the edges the more you listen to it, all the usual tropes of a fragile ballad are in place – the plaintive riff, distant foreboding strings, whispered vocals – but it all hangs together so majestically.

Though he uses a large orchestra, Pintscher's scoring is extremely delicate, sometimes to the point of virtually disappearing.

Chinchilla, native to the high Andes from Peru to northern Argentina, were hunted for their delicate gray fur to the point of near extinction.

But where Ironside is delicate and sometimes convoluted to the point of whimsy, Vaughan is solid and dark.

On ABC, a former Clinton speechwriter, Michael Waldman, found a delicate way to point out that there were few memorable phrases in Mr. Obama's speech, saying, "He didn't strive for cheap quotability".

It's a very fine line one that every successful self-promoting entrepreneur has had to figure out - how to find the delicate balance point where you can achieve the buy-in without being pushy.

The relationship can be delicate; at some point, agents have to hand off their case and hope that the lawyers can carry it across the goal line.

The most delicate sticking point, though, promises to be the noncompliance clause for religious institutions.

The state of art related to this delicate equilibrium represents the starting point for designing future clinical trials, in perspective of clinical recommendations.

Unrest in North Africa is also strengthening Russia's bargaining position with Europe on natural gas exports and pipeline politics — although Russian officials have used delicate phrasing to make this point.