The entire movable part of the telescope weighs more than 500 tons, yet it is so smoothly supported and delicately balanced on hydrostatic bearings that a 1/12-horsepower motor can turn it to follow the apparent rotation of the sky.
He handled her delicately, supporting her as she arched over his outstretched arms, her sternum drawn to the ceiling by an invisible thread.
Mr. Dickman has kept his instrumental vocabulary at a minimum: only four instruments, flute, violin, cello and vibraphone, delicately support large stretches of declamatory song.
The commissioned score by Bright Sheng, City Ballet's resident composer, sets the atmosphere from its magical first moments, providing aural color and near-melodic climaxes that delicately support the ballet's emotional climaxes.
Each delicately sketched supporting character comes with a story to tell – among the most successfully rendered is Daisy Dupree, Dr Osner's longstanding assistant, whose beautiful, accomplished exterior conceals a heartbreaking secret.
Tax credits and mortgage guarantees keep the housing market alive yet compound distortions that contributed significantly to the debt mountain in the first place.Mr Obama's supporters on the left want him to attack imbalances by supporting domestic manufacturers (an activity delicately termed "industrial policy") and punishing other countries, particularly China, that they say trade unfairly.
"We support Vietnam," reads one white cloth stretched delicately across a Singaporean-owned factory.
He delicately argued that Vietnam's people should support the reformers in the government who are pressing for a loosening of the state controls that have choked the economy here and sent foreign investors fleeing.
James delicately chipped ahead for Rougerie to gather and the centre popped an inside pass to his supporting outside-half, who sprinted clear to score underneath the posts, giving Parra a simple conversion for a 15-6 lead.
Do I delicately place each step, aware of every movement I make hoping the fragile thin ice below my feet will support me?
