"delicate understanding" is a valid phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to a sensitive or subtle comprehension of something. Example: John's delicate understanding of human emotions and behaviors made him a great therapist.
They develop delicate understandings of what is required in a given place in time.
A Delicate Balance: Understanding the Four Humors.
A Delicate Balance: Understanding the Four Humors, Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
She has a delicate cultural understanding of the city.
He added, "The problem is that this stuff is hard to talk about, because everything hinges on some delicate technical understandings".
The beginning is a very delicate time for understanding.
There are all sorts of delicate complications to understanding a player's role and effect, some of which statistics can illuminate and even settle.
So, the Roman or religious historian has the delicate job of understanding and analyzing these networks of complementary but conflicting meanings and at the same time, the exciting task of finding, inventing, or borrowing best methods for constructing critical paths through or round our patchy knowledge of what inevitably remains an alien society.
Understanding the delicate balance between the role of effector and memory cells on eliminating cancer cells remains an elusive problem in immunology.
A must read for cognitive scientists, philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists, and more generally, for all those who are interested in understanding the delicate weave of perception and its relationship with brain, body, and action.
