Trio Mediaeval, "Stella Maris" (ECM): At once more daring and more delicate than Anonymous 4, their predecessors in the a-cappella-female-vocal category, these three Scandinavian singers bring a crystalline magic to a range of ancient and contemporary polyphonic works.
That makes a change from up to 48 parties in parliament in the 1990s.All the same, the proportional system for choosing a quarter of the seats, which allowed so many of those midgets to get into the last parliament, is still untouched, storing up instability for a time when the balance of power between the big blocks once again becomes more delicate.
With private values, the second-price auction allocates efficiently, however the question is more delicate once values are interdependent.
She repeated the trick on my stomach, although with a rather more delicate touch once I told her I'd just eaten lunch.
The movement in "Once" is often slower and more delicate than in the duo's six earlier collaborations, but it is no less precise than the ceremonial regiment marches in "Black Watch" or the lurching and stumbling of young women and men that Mr. Hoggett choreographed for "American Idiot" on Broadway.
But there's at least one area where our sensibilities are far more delicate than they once were: the representation of American battlefield casualties.
Recent digs (source of most of the 500 objects on show) have also turned up bronze tweezers, a wash basin, a glass mirror – and, once more overturning the wild berserker image – delicate spoons of bone or horn.
But - to quote the Herald editorial once more - "freedom of expression is a delicate flower" and, despite the roughness of our trade, its benefits outweigh its faults.
Once, right after picking to preserve the grapes' more delicate flavours.
Judging performers is a more delicate matter: how to be at once truthful and not gratuitously hurtful.
