"He's delicate," she said, "but his spirit is extraordinary".
He is delicate with surfaces of water and hidden depths.
He's delicate and dangerous, recalling young soul stars of the late 1980s and early '90s, like Ralph Tresvant and Tevin Campbell, who also used soft voices to salacious effect.
ART is for weeds and sissies whose mater hav said Take care of my dear little Cedric, he is delicate you kno and cannot stand a foopball to the head.
When, in 1915, Streatfeild was dying of tuberculosis, his final injunction to her was to "take Noël Coward home with you, he is delicate and wants taking care of".
In an interview Mr. Lelyveld, a former executive editor of The New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, said he thought he had "treaded very carefully" with the information, which he knew was delicate.
He was aware of the news, but only said that the situation on the Iberian Peninsula was delicate; he did not confirm the fall of the Junta.
Even at this age, Sullivan's health was delicate, and he was easily fatigued.
I realized that he was being delicate, that he didn't want to voice his true opinion of my collages.
