Sentence examples for modest delicacy from inspiring English sources
Yet far from being merely cleverly retro, his new compact configurations of elemental shapes have a startling freshness and a robust energy that belie their seemingly modest delicacy.
But Maine, or northern, shrimp -- Pandalus borealis and Pandalus jordani -- are a modest delicacy, with about 40 whole unshelled shrimp in a pound, as against 15 or so cocktail shrimp from southern waters without the heads.
The modest delicacies served in paintings by Kai Althoff suggest that a new type of man, imperfect and proud, has emerged in art in the last few decades, though not without resistance, as Ken Okiishi's astute video on one questing man illustrates.
The turkey arrived in England some time during the reign of Henry VIII, and by the mid-sixteenth century was being widely bred, especially in East Anglia, a barren, windswept, flat land, distinguished by its open sky and its miserable damp climate and its modest agriculture — beets, cabbage, and eels were regional delicacies.
In a good cover version of the song, Phil Collins, a sophisticated drummer who was never a modest performer with Genesis, does a tight roll that begins with featherlight delicacy on a tomtom and ends more firmly on his snare, before going back to the beat.
Through his strange and ethereal buildings, which range from modest houses for the urban recluse to a library whose arched forms have the delicacy of paper cutouts, he has created a body of work almost unmatched in its diverse originality.
There is a modest, exploratory eccentricity in Michaux's work, an exquisite, Asian-style sensitivity to paint and paper and an elusive delicacy of soul (Johnson).
"A little femininity and delicacy.
