It was in 2006 that I first met Taika Dahlbom, a delicate, fiercely intelligent cultural historian from the University of Turku in Finland.
Because, according to someone who has begun to suspect that Renée Michel's ingredients are not what they say on the tin, she is a hedgehog – sharp protective quills on the outside but sensitive, delicate, fiercely solitary and terribly elegant within.
Her poems convey raw, personal experience with fiercely inventive language that elevates them above less delicate demonstrations of trauma.
In the Credit Suisse case, for example, regulators from the Federal Reserve and prosecutors worked for months to persuade the Swiss bank and its regulators to release full data, an especially delicate proposition because of Swiss laws that fiercely guard client information, according to the law enforcement officials.
The unfurling ribbons of, usually, primary colors are delicate rather than frail, and shift emphasis to the fiercely white grounds that they cross or incise.
The unfurling ribbons of, usually, primary colors are delicate, rather than frail, and shift emphasis to the fiercely white grounds that they cross or incise.
But the delicate balance of their relationship - which Denis shows as fiercely reticent, entirely reliant on the protective intimacies of precedence and rank - is upended when Bruno conceives a fatherly interest in a new recruit, Gilles Sentain, played by Grégoire Colin.
Six years ago, she took the galvanic lead as the fiercely articulate yet emotionally clenched Agnes in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Mr. Albee's 1966 play, "A Delicate Balance," earning a Tony nomination.
"We're fiercely independent, fiercely rational".
