Sentence examples for tricky and delicate from inspiring English sources

Balancing these two sets of values is tricky and delicate in a capitalist democracy.

Mr. Serkin, despite his strong soloistic temperament, has long shown a gift for tricky and delicate collaborations, playing without weight but with enough intensity to make the piano register strongly yet unobtrusively.

They, like others, have initially considered social to be a relatively trivial thing and dismissed it and they're now coming to the realization that it is as complicated and tricky and delicate in a different way than figuring out the algorithmic data approaches to doing search.

"But it's a tricky and delicate situation because there will be teams who feel we should be punished and I can totally understand that.

The politics of climate, for the reasons described above, are incredibly tricky and delicate no matter the circumstance.

Far less attention has been given to machines capable of performing trickier and more delicate tasks like washing, wiping, shaving or brushing a patient's teeth.

"It's going to be tricky and it's delicate, but it's going to be solvable, because in the end the Shia clerics are open to a state that's a democratic state but is also respectful of Islam," Mr. Feldman said.

Multi-layered dresses can be notably tricky, and fabrics that are delicate or slippery can also be difficult for an amateur to work with.

Pop had plenty of time, therefore, to reopen the étagère, lined with reflecting glass or German silver (something exquisitely delicate and tricky), and as soon as the two Selbsts had said thank you and goodbye and were in mid-street again up to the knees in snow, Woody said, "Well, I covered for you.

Ms. Silverstone, whose Broadway debut came in the dreary stage adaptation of "The Graduate," gets a happy chance at redemption in a tricky role to which she brings warmth, actorly intelligence and delicate humor.

The "real-world" consequence: with reduced flying time, Sikes' pilots can't all practice in-flight refueling, the trickiest, most delicate and dangerous part of long-distance missions.