Mr. Dickman has kept his instrumental vocabulary at a minimum: only four instruments, flute, violin, cello and vibraphone, delicately support large stretches of declamatory song.
The commissioned score by Bright Sheng, City Ballet's resident composer, sets the atmosphere from its magical first moments, providing aural color and near-melodic climaxes that delicately support the ballet's emotional climaxes.
He handled her delicately, supporting her as she arched over his outstretched arms, her sternum drawn to the ceiling by an invisible thread.
Each delicately sketched supporting character comes with a story to tell – among the most successfully rendered is Daisy Dupree, Dr Osner's longstanding assistant, whose beautiful, accomplished exterior conceals a heartbreaking secret.
The health insurance industry is delicately balancing its support for short-term funding that would benefit them with its anxiety about longer-term cuts to Medicaid and health insurance subsidies that would harm them.
On a recent day, Mr. Ojara delivered a bitter elixir of water and vine root to the tiny contorted hands of Charles Okello, 12, and a line of other child patients supported delicately by their parents under the shade of a duru tree.
The entire movable part of the telescope weighs more than 500 tons, yet it is so smoothly supported and delicately balanced on hydrostatic bearings that a 1/12-horsepower motor can turn it to follow the apparent rotation of the sky.
"Oculus," a mobile eight feet wide, like a Chinese lantern, is made of dozens of aluminum rectangles, paperback-sized, precisely suspended in a circle, the elaborate geometry and variety of the intricate, delicately balanced hooks and supporting devices providing the work's main visual excitement.
Persons with dementia, caregivers and health support staff create a delicately balanced circle that enables a new equilibrium for different phases in the continuum of dementia care.
He delicately argued that Vietnam's people should support the reformers in the government who are pressing for a loosening of the state controls that have choked the economy here and sent foreign investors fleeing.
"We support Vietnam," reads one white cloth stretched delicately across a Singaporean-owned factory.
