For more substantial meals, Asitane (Kariye Cami Sokak 6) serves delicate, historically researched Ottoman cuisine, like a 16th-century dish of baked melons stuffed with minced meat, herbs, rice and almonds.
Historically, tundra, a landscape of lichens, mosses and delicate plants, was too damp to burn.
American presidents have historically found relations with China to be a delicate dance.
Enlisting religious groups in family planning campaigns has been a delicate task, as faith leaders have historically been wary of efforts to limit family size.
Because relations between the Tibetan population of the region and the Chinese government had been historically tense, the politics of the official response were delicate.
That's a delicate balancing act for a company that has historically taken a robust pro-free speech position, yet at times appeared to be on the back foot when its platform has been appropriated by co-ordinated hate groups and used as a tool for sustained harassment.
Mr. Chambliss, a graduate of Jackson State University who now teaches at the historically black Texas Southern Law School, is ambivalent about the integration issue, always a delicate subject among the black institutions.
I'm amazed, especially, by the delicacy of his technique — remarkably delicate and precise, and this in someone who has been thought of, historically, as massive and powerful.
Neither thin nor delicate, clinker brick is the Marlon Brando of masonry: misshapen, blackened in the kiln, historically regarded as trash by brickmakers.
