Anderson exults in the textures and tones, creating a vast infra-palette of beiges and off-whites, rarely admitting anything so gaudy as primary and secondary colors, direct sunlight and sharp-edged shadows, rendering visual surfaces that invite touch but appear too delicate to withstand that touch.
I started out by calling Mr. Haneke a sadist, but it seems to me that he may be too naïve, too delicate, to merit that designation, which should be reserved only for the greatest filmmakers.
"It took years, and even after we did it, all the literature said that clematis are too delicate to use like that, so we shipped samples to designers," he said.
One of the central arguments of the abolitionists was that slavery corrupted family relations, though they were often too delicate to say what that meant.
The Venezuelan government's silence was regarded as an implicit acknowledgement that the issue is too delicate to risk any miscalculation that might worsen the impasse.
But the net result — served on a bed of julienned leeks with hen-of-the-woods mushrooms, and a pale, foie gras sauce — was a dish that was too delicate.
Since then, a mobile version of the x-ray "scanner" has been developed, allowing museums to examine paintings that are too delicate to be moved or touched.
It's much too delicate and 'wallpaper-y' for that.
You do need mature spinach, of the kind that's so puzzlingly ignored by supermarkets, who favour the baby leaves that are far too delicate for this dish; I'm lucky enough to have a local market that sells it in big muddy bunches; greengrocers and farm shops are other good sources.
They have fairly long histories of supporting women's sports in general and are arguably among the most progressive countries in the world when it comes to ignoring the kind of gender stereotyping that holds that women are too delicate for strenuous sports.
