Sentence examples for seems delicate from inspiring English sources

Shimmering in a figure-hugging dress, she seems delicate rather than commanding, despite her cut-glass accent.

Her ability to transform herself extends even to her physique: when she's Tara, her head seems delicate, wedge-shaped; when she's Buck, it's a blocky oblong.

Each alien object seems delicate and soft, asking to be felt with the hand though any courteous art-viewer who practices a "look and don't touch" etiquette can see the works are true successes in conveying sculptural texture.

The balance between the benefit and harms of the intervention seems delicate.

His effects successfully link surface characteristics and imagery inspiration but at the same time seem delicate, subjective and inventive.

They may seem delicate and fragile, but Joyce's songs are sturdy, and pulse with a deeply confident intent.

Ray Neufield makes toughness seem delicate and beautiful in "Event Horizon," a wall sculpture made from tire scraps collected along the Long Island Expressway.

The lighting is erratic, and the sound system makes Broadway amplification seem delicate (although the big barn settings where the show plays limit the options).

He exaggerated male uniforms so that they seemed delicate: suits with flared pants, jewels as buttons, baroque jackets that flaunted his chest like décolletage.

Ms. Bove's best-known pieces seem delicate enough to balance on a pin, but she has long been interested in the category of materials that Robert Rauschenberg, art's great scavenger, called "what was available" — junk, primarily urban.

And it still manages to seem delicate and weighty, introspective and commanding — quite an amazing accomplishment, given the centuries of religious conquest and plunder that have stripped it of nearly all its trappings.