Mr. Spitzer's team delicately reminded Ms. Kelly that her signature did not mean she was voting for him, only that she believed he should be on the ballot.
The longing for the past may have been intentional, but Stucky surrounded the waltzes in wistful musical mists delicately reminding us that this is all an impossible dream.
Chef Adelaide Fonseca fuses traditional Portuguese recipes with contemporary flair: our meal is stunning, from delicately fried fish – reminding us it was the Portuguese who introduced tempura to Japan – to cataplana, the famous fish stew popular on the Algarve, dotted with coriander and fish-stuffed ravioli, to a reinvention of sericaia, a fluffy, meringue-y hybrid of soufflé and sweet omelette.
They remind her delicately that few of the French women who have left for Iraq or Syria have returned; the average one survives less than a year.
Senator James Inhofe, for his part, announced a change of heart on the subject of climate change, after an aide reminded him delicately that he has family members living on planet Earth.
Especially lovely were the delicately etched crystal glasses that reminded me of those I had once seen in an antique shop in the Île Saint Louis neighborhood in Paris.
As heavy gates and foreboding ramparts uncomfortably readjust themselves to make way for delicately flowered facades, one is reminded of how clumsily a heavily clad warrior might have carried around a lady's patterned kerchief as a token of affection.
Buckley plays Moll, a delicately beautiful and unhappy young woman and put-upon daughter (the character reminded me of her Marya Bolkonskaya in the BBC's recent War and Peace), who has a terrible job that she hates: a tourist bus-trip guide.
As Alan Rickman so delicately embodies the complexities of Severus Snape, or the loving but flawed husband in "Love Actually," it reminds us that even those we love the most have shortcomings; and that to love wholly, is to love in spite of imperfections.
