A tricky and fine footballer.
It is exceptionally tricky because the fine line created by the sharp metal tip is almost impossible to erase.
This aesthetic of feeling the most and showing the least can be tricky — there's a fine line between underacting and nonacting — and it isn't always rewarded at prize-giving time, when flashier turns tend to carry the day.
What is, is that it's hilarious – walking the fine and tricky line between sweet and fist-chewingly crude, with Helm's musical interludes providing frequent, welcome whips of surrealism.
The rules can be tricky; there is a fine line between what's appropriate and what's not, and sometimes it's hard to tell where exactly to draw that line.
This year the lone major musical to open, "Young Frankenstein," landed with a splat and proved how tricky it is to fine-tune the work of a stage full of talent in the context of a machine-tooled megamusical.
Midway through the illness, the chorea and lack of coordination would make anything requiring fine motor movements tricky to enact.
Hicks's fine translations overcome tricky problems — one dénouement involves "Paris" being misread as a word written in Cyrillic — and successfully capture Zoshchenko's knockabout use of everyday speech.
The answer is the 19th-century novel, with its knowing looks and chilly drawing rooms, the chink of fine china, and tricky questions about social class and marriage prospects.
