Sentence examples for delicately said from inspiring English sources

"How do I put this delicately?" said Kearney.

"We need to handle the matter delicately," said Muchukund Dubey, former foreign secretary of India and president of the Council for Social Development, a New Delhi-based research group.

"He places his big hands very delicately," said Yuliya Firtich, the director of a St . Petersburgfolk-song-and-dance troupe that was visiting the farm, taking part in Mr. Nowick's performances and offering some of its own.

So Johnson said that the North Vietnamese had agreed to respect the DMZ (not a huge concession, since almost all their supplies came down the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos or through the port of Sihanoukville and the jungles of Cambodia anyway), and that they would not attack South Vietnamese cities. Johnson delicately said that the Viet Cong and South Vietnamese were "free" to attend.

As Peter Orszag, Obama's budget director, delicately says of the rich, "We are asking them to pitch in a bit more".

My first role was Aufidius in Coriolanus, a production for which the critical reaction was, as we in the trade delicately say, mixed.

AS Byatt, who sees Sebald's subject as "memory: its tenacity and fallibility", says, "he connects with immense pain, only to say you can't connect; he tries to make you imag ine things that he then delicately says are unimaginable".

"I can tell you from my own experience that there are owners of planes who say that candidate XYZ wants to use my plane, and how can I delicately say no? I'd prefer not to, and I need something to hang my hat on".

You may be too tired to delicately say, "I know she's not latching properly, but I'm just trying to get the hang of it," and instead say, "See off?

But he kept talking ("very delicately," he said), and she kept listening.

"Any kind of discussion of even pushing a wall out has to be treated delicately," he said, "but this is security related and its not expanding the airport to put those machines in a safer place".