Sentence examples for supremely delicate from inspiring English sources

He may recommend mantis shrimp, which has an unexpectedly granular texture, or akagai, the supremely delicate red-fleshed ark shell clam.

On board was Frank G. Wisner, an adroit ex-diplomat whom President Obama had asked hours before to undertake a supremely delicate mission: nudging President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt out of power.

Characterization, never exactly one of her fetishes, is reduced to the level of advertising copy, as in the descriptions of Maxi's best friend India West ("Supremely delicate muscles... extraordinary features whose perfection bored no one but India herself... the most beautiful movie actress in the world".) and Maxi's former husband, Rocco ("absurdly gorgeous... with torrents of talent").

Electrons require just a conductor, but they are unruly, which complicates the creation of supremely delicate quantum states.

Somehow the whole image, including the blood, is supremely lyrical and delicate.

As she balanced, supremely, on one super-strong pointe and lifted one delicate, steely leg to graze her ear, Guillem was to some of her public the most glamorous dancer of the age – and to others, the most arrogant.

Devon Teuscher was a vivid and supremely lyrical Polyhymnia, whereas Melanie Hamrick as Calliope was more delicate and languid.

No matter how you dress it up, it's a childish children's book: It's not an expurgated fairytale, like the ones written for adults and later laundered for the supposedly delicate childish earshells (in fact kids are supremely bloodyminded and take folktale atrocities in stride).

The uptown gallery contains the supremely realistic sculptures of Elyse, her youthful body taut, legs apart, a sprinkling of delicate veins and freckles across her flesh, as flawless as any human can possibly be.

It was a phenomenon embodied, the historian John F. Kasson writes in his slight but intriguing new book, in the oft-repeated story of how President Theodore Roosevelt overcame childhood adversity, transforming "his 'sickly, delicate,' asthmatic body into the 200-pound muscular, barrel-chested figure of a supremely strong and energetic leader".

Woodberry's supremely observant style suits his exquisite work with actors; Nate Hardman's quietly explosive, self-pitying performance makes explicit the delicate ties between stable employment and masculine self-worth; and Kaycee Moore (Killer of Sheep, Daughters of the Dust) gives an exceptionally nuanced performance as the family's primary emotional laborer.