Sentence examples for over delicate from inspiring English sources

The security of the installations themselves is adequate, the report says, although it questions whether contractors should take over delicate assignments like bomb disposal and aerial surveillance.

His background in haute new American cooking asserts itself in small, elevating details, like preserved lemon and gentle but persistent espelette pepper on a razor clam pizza, and a pistachio crumble over delicate fava bean agnolotti.

They are full of the glories of Mr. Nascimento's work: soaring, churchlike falsettos over delicate harmonies.

Morning, my father still home, in the kitchen drying dishes, his tie loosened, his sleeves rolled over delicate wrists.

Over delicate piano on "What Love Is This," one of the most striking songs on the album, Ms. Jobe sounds uncharacteristically uncertain, her voice shivering.

But in rich, moist soil, the deeply indented leaves, aloft over delicate flowers, can reach a foot in diameter and make a wonderful ground cover.

Southern white people like me are accustomed to the culture of niceness in which every communication is mediated through self-deprecation, innuendo, and other pleasantries in order to smooth over any delicate, contentious point that needs to be made.

At Pitchfork, Andrew Ryce memorably dissed the arrangement, writing that, "unfortunately, a hammy choir over-emotes all over his delicate late-night vulnerability, taking Smith's raw honesty and overcooking it to a grey pallor".

Censorship often spills over from delicate topics to searches that would ordinarily be bland.

Already there are divisions over the delicate question of whether the union should admit Turkey, a country of 70 million.

"I marveled at the long red hair falling in waves over the delicate yellow nightgown I had never owned before, trimmed with little useless ribbons.