Sentence examples for oddly delicate from inspiring English sources
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson delivered some beautiful singing, oddly delicate in this context, marred only by Mr. Eschenbach's excessively slow tempo.
The trouble is, Marclay's paintings are a bit too pat, and oddly delicate for all their noisy blather.
Peppery lamb chops, the meat tender yet intensely flavorful, come with fat slices of minced lamb sausage and a side of oddly delicate cassoulet, a seeming oxymoron.
In her e-mail, Rockwell said that she admired the way Wills nailed the paradox of Wayne's appeal: a masculinity all the more powerful for being graceful rather than forceful, oddly delicate, looking offhand but actually being carefully crafted.
"David is oddly delicate, so highly strung, so highly involved in his work," said Daphne Guinness, the socialite, fashion fixture and frequent model for the photographer and a woman whose abstracted femininity puts her oddly in line with other LaChapelle muses like Pamela Anderson and Ms. Lepore.
The hero of Kim Jee-woon's amusing, oddly delicate film is Daeho, (Song Kang-ho), an unhappy bank clerk who finds in wrestling both relief from the humiliation and boredom of his daily life and an opportunity to suffer further humiliation.
It allowed him to show that he had finally learned how to use his voice, an oddly heavy but delicate instrument that always seemed to be about 20 years older than he was.
Set in northern China in the 1980's and based on a true story, the novel is a delicate portrait of a decent but oddly passionless man.
His rosy cheeks and delicate features, and the rakish tie he wears, contrast oddly with the hefty Colt pistol he clutches in one hand.
With their oddly footless fusewire legs, Jeffers's characters are drawn with a delicate, minimalist bravura - he aimed, he says, for a "toylike" simplicity - but they also resemble the tiny figurines of ancient Cycladic art.
They provide an extraordinary glimpse into a little-known, continuing process — the delicate care and management of a cooperative former terrorist — that can seem oddly nuanced and even gentle in the era of Guantánamo and debates over torture.
