And she played the title role in the 1993 television movie "Zelda," based on the life of Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's ferociously competitive and emotionally delicate wife.
But Obama is the more emotionally delicate candidate, and the one who has the more feminine consensus management style, and the not-blinded-by-testosterone ability to object to a phony war.
Their best work melds their omnivorous tastes, animating Hynes' very-now, emotionally delicate production with Knowles' impressive vocal artistry and grounding in the less-hip heritage of R&B (tonight she throws in a cover of "I Could Fall In Love" by Latin artist Selena).
Given the gaudy violence that frequently moves his stories forward and keeps them jumping, it may come as something of a surprise that he has directed a heartfelt, emotionally delicate children's movie about life and death and all the parts in between.
As in Tennessee Williams' play, we have an emotionally fragile, delicate flower of a heroine, whose past slowly blossoms into view, forced to live with her working class sister and her brutish man.
That might be a better lesson to teach our daughters -- who are playing because they love the thrill of competition -- rather than the idea that they are delicate, emotionally fragile people who need to be protected from embarrassment.
(Scott) Film Series AMERICAN AUTEURS: ROBERT MULLIGAN (Wednesday and Thursday) This weeklong retrospective explores the delicate, emotionally vivid work of the director Robert Mulligan, who died in December at 83.
"At its core, this is a romance of the most emotionally resonant, but delicate, order – and we look forward to working with our colleagues at Universal to transform E L James's vision into a great film," James Schamus, the chief executive officer of Focus Features, said in a statement.
Célestine was employed in a situation straight out of Marcel Proust: she had to tend to a handsome, delicate, emotionally vulnerable young man with some kind of tubercular disorder, who is being cared for by his grandmother, at a place by the sea.
Both Mr. Lepage and Ms. Michaud, who together wrote the script for "The Blue Dragon," give subdued, delicate and emotionally resonant performances.
From the bare bones of the case, writer Peter Whelan has spun a delicate and emotionally luminous play that speculates on what might have happened, and about the state of Susanna's marriage.
