Sentence examples for excessively delicate from inspiring English sources

Mayne plainly applied a dictionary sense of "precious" as "affectedly or excessively delicate, refined, or nice" and none of the alternatives: "of high price or great value"; "highly esteemed for some spiritual, nonmaterial, or moral quality"; "dear, beloved".

Too delicate.

"So not excessively excessive.

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson delivered some beautiful singing, oddly delicate in this context, marred only by Mr. Eschenbach's excessively slow tempo.

Clearly, CNV is an important evolutionary driving force, and a delicate balance is needed between compensating for variations in gene doses (thus permitting variability) and selection against excessively destabilizing variation.

Everyone excessively tidy, excessively generous.

"I was excessively disciplined.

Very delicate.

"He was excessively lustful.

"Like" is "used excessively".

Silly, excessively sober me.