Sentence examples for overly delicate from inspiring English sources

It's a welcome change from the overly delicate handling that skate often gets.

The musical doesn't seem intended to compete with the big game on Broadway, where it would probably seem overly delicate.

While those with overly delicate feminist sensibilities may find the sexual politics of "Seven Brides" too horrifying to contemplate, the rest of us will want to play the barn-raising sequence -- choreographed by Michael Kidd, it is one of the most rousing dance numbers ever put on screen -- over and over again.

This is, at best, overly delicate, suggesting as it does that the American role was confined to training (it was not) and, less explicitly, that that the killing of targets wasn't the goal — it just sometimes happened, which gave people funny ideas about what was going on.

Her style directive involves the flounce of a woodland elf without being overly delicate or perishable, unlike some other designers channeling forest nymphs these days (heads up, Erin Featherston).

Too delicate.

This is should be done only if the light fixture is overly ornate, delicate, heavy or obstructs access to the fan blades.

"This explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure," said Roe. "That Keats was using opium to enhance what it meant to 'fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget' the world gives us a different Keats: a Keats whose struggle with life was more complex, and darker than we have previously thought.

Although Cornell never left the United States, he translated his dreams of faraway places into delicate, sometimes overly precious works that have a sense of longing.

Described by a former colleague as a "master facilitator", Alan carefully empowered colleagues without being overly directive – a very delicate balancing act.

A mountain of crème chantilly atop layers of delicate, not-overly-sweet meringue, dotted with fresh raspberries.