The best moment in this tour de force of paper engineering arrives just as the front cover opens, when a graceful swirl of slim white strips — a sinuous fan, playing delicately with its own shadows — springs up.
Arvell Shaw sang "What a Wonderful World" in a plummy ballad baritone, and the guitarist Russell Malone stood alone to play a delicately beautiful version of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot".
Two or four violins up front; three or four guitars, sized from ukelele to cello; and three trumpeters, playing as delicately as a brass section can, so as not to drown out the singer.
The first was a late cut, played so delicately that he might have been patting a baby on the head, but with such timing that the ball sped to the boundary; the second, an off-drive, punched effortlessly back past the bowler, beating mid-off to his left and so to the fence.
It displays an intense musicality, as Nyro fits a variety of musical textures around her own delicately sculpted piano playing, finely attuned to whatever emotional temperature she is trying to evoke.
Keane has done this with ease this season, dropping 10-15 yardshortrt of the center backs in behind the midfield, to turn and then delicately play in LA's other attackers.
Theobald delicately plays on the gaps between what Graham says and his real feelings and dependence on his mother, and Cole hints at the emptiness in a marriage where obsessive tidiness becomes a retreat from dealing with the loss of a baby.
His shoulders sag and his head slumps forward as he delicately plays piano, and later he picks up his jacket as if he's about to leave.
He starts Bonfa's "Manha de Carnival" with a delicately played intro that quotes Jobim's "Insensatez" before playing the main theme.
Genaro ignites the drama, but Plutarco keeps it going through a series of delicately played and directed interludes involving the grandson, a landowner, a donkey and, finally and startlingly, an army officer with an apparent sentimental streak.
