How To Use Delicacy In A Sentence

The officials and diplomats spoke anonymously because of the delicacy of the negotiations on what tack to take on Iran.
He took an aesthete's view that some of the writing in the issue was ‘indecent in the sense of offending against delicacy’ but ‘would not deprave or corrupt save in point of literary style’.
Served rare, the meat of squab is a heady delicacy, both earthy and elegant.
A spider web, revealing its geometric perfection, hung half across one corner of the rude casement; the moonbeams without were individualized in fine filar delicacy, like the ravellings of a silver skein. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895
The space between these anterior and posterior openings makes a large chamber, divided by a vertical wall into halves, each of which is still further separated into three irregular cavities by three bones, called spongy, from the porosity and delicacy of their texture. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics

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In Beethoven's Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 44, the trio contrasted the music's delicacy with sheer boisterousness. Emerson opens string quartet festival with well-played Schonberg
Fortunately, she was lapping the soup up with great neatness and delicacy, which was sort of a relief: Jinx had been afraid she was going to slop it all over the table.
The grass plains have long been home to the rhea, whose eggs are thought a delicacy, as well as the flesh, which is either jerked or eaten fresh.
Here was a soft-pedalled, soft-grained performance, miraculous in its level of delicacy attained and avoidance of the precious. Times, Sunday Times
Food is less available and expensive food such as red meat is a rare delicacy. Coping with Angina
You get a sense of shared solitude, conveyed subtly but precisely, with masterly delicacy and without ostentatious ‘acting’.
The Big House was of sturdy concrete, but here was marble in exquisite delicacy. CHAPTER XXVIII
Bilberry has been used as food for centuries due to its high nutritive value, and today represents a precious wild delicacy.
These were substantially built of timber and talipots, thatched with cadjans and bamboo leaves, and festooned and decorated as the Singhalese only can decorate - leaves, flowers and fruit being entwined together with so much delicacy and airy tastefulness as to impart an almost fairy-like form to the pavilion.
Coupled with the use of her given name, Elizabeth was too flustered to think very much about the indelicacy of the situation.
How about sweet peas for fragrance and delicacy of form and colour? 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
Oddly, Hopkins makes perfectly realistic graphite drawings of anemones, tulips and ranunculuses that have the delicacy of drypoint etching; he also paints straightforward Japanese watercolor ‘portraits’ of flowers.
Smoked salmon was considered an expensive delicacy.
The giant ocean mammals are considered a delicacy in Japan. The Sun
Her somnolent black eyes and tenderly pursed pink lips intrude upon the eggshell delicacy of her face with the most delicate affection.
Excuse my indelicacy, but how much are you worth?
Highly nutritional active lotion infiltrates into cuticle, soften deep derm, moisturize rough skin, at the same time remove wrinkles of cuticle, restores delicacy, smooth, natural health of skin.
The delicacy, a combination of congealed pigs' blood, fat and rusk encased in a length of intestine, is closely related to German blutwurst, French boudin noir and Spanish morcilla.
It was a flatbottomed outrigged deal boat, very long, and so narrow that to look over one's shoulder in it was a manoeuvre of extreme delicacy, especially where the rapids caused the water to be in wild commotion. Two Summers in Guyenne
Sauteed in garlic butter with crawfish and kohlrabi is a cajun delicacy. Ewwww, cont'd (Jack Bog's Blog)
Robert Hughes, the art critic, has pointed to Matisse, because of the delicacy of the outlining and colouration.
B. G.) which graced the board with its plastic forms, suggestive of the most pleasing objects, -- the spiral ringlets pendent from the brow of beauty, -- the magic circlet, which is the pledge of plighted affection, -- the indissoluble knot, which typifies the union of hearts, which organs were also largely represented; this exceptional delicacy would at any other time have claimed his special notice. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.
Her bloodlessness functions at times as delicacy here, especially in the awkward courtship scenes, but her acting always seems like play-acting to me.
They replied that for a day's work on a fruit farm, they can make 5,000 riels - but for a wild pig caught from the forest, whose flesh is a delicacy, they can get 30,000 riels.
A topic that needs to be treated with delicacy and discretion.
Irish visitors might be less entranced by the region's favourite delicacy, andouillettes.
Up next was the 1990 Mount Mary Vineyard Lilydale Cabernets Quintets, a lighter but rewarding style of cabernet that showing very well with a secondary blackcurrant note, lovely delicacy and great precision with no greenness or herbaciousness. A historic tasting Down Under – Bin 60A, Grange, Hill of Grace | Dr Vino's wine blog
Three bars later, though, he'd be back tickling the finer notes out of Beethoven with utmost delicacy.
The first tentative encounter between Paul and his offspring is handled with considerable wit and delicacy. The Kids Are All Right – review
“A new delicacy I found out about,” he said, and looked sidelong at Picard, “called hardtack.” INTELLIVORE
Across the gallery and down the stair -- it might have been the Golden Stair linking Near with Far -- came a score of exquisite women in all the glory of their youth, of perfect physical beauty and splendid strength and fullness of life; and the wonder was not their beauty more than a kind of dryad delicacy of that beauty, which was yet not frailty but a look of angelic strength. Romance Island
The food we did get was absolutely delicious in its delicacy and subtlety. Sarah Brown's Vegetarian London
Freekeh, roasted green wheat, is an exceptional delicacy of the Arab world.
Both had the same hard delicacy of form and feature, both were tall and almost emaciated, both had a sparse growth of gray blond hair far back from high intellectual foreheads, both had an almost noble aquilinity of feature. The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural
The exhibition will explore the world of plant and flower painting, combining exquisite scientific detail with beauty, delicacy and expressiveness.
Today I cannot help but call to mind that great delicacy of love that she had for him. Daily Readings with Mother Theresa
But I believe that in such trying times as these precision of meaning trumps political correctness or delicacy of phrasing.
One was a kind of thrush, the other a small dove called the ortolan, and esteemed a very great delicacy on account of its exquisite flavour. Swiss Family Robinson
But the traditional way of preparing the north-west Indian delicacy, which is made from dried bummalo fish, is for it to be dried in the sun on the beach.
Once an expensive delicacy, it is now farmed extensively so is relatively cheap. Times, Sunday Times
B. G.) which graced the board with its plastic forms, suggestive of the most pleasing objects, -- the spiral ringlets pendent from the brow of beauty; the magic circlet, which is the pledge of plighted affection, -- the indissoluble knot, which typifies the union of hearts, which organs were also largely represented; this exceptional delicacy would at any other time have claimed his special notice. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
This most mistaken opinion gives an indelicacy, a brusquerie, and a roughness to the manners. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
This most mistaken opinion gives an indelicacy, a 'brusquerie', and a roughness to the manners. Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752
Her skin had the delicacy of a flower.
A great Kyrgyz delicacy reserved especially for guests is a combination plate of fresh sliced sheep liver and slices of sheep tail fat.
They lack, in short, sculptural nobleness and delicacy. The Philosophy of Art
It lacks the fluidity, delicacy and grace of the best. Times, Sunday Times
The story of a nun and a marine could have easily become a cliché, but in their hands, it comes across with sensitivity and delicacy.
This Texan delicacy is a cutlet of tenderized top-round beef, battered and fried in a skillet (much like fried chicken, hence the name), and served with cream gravy. Independence and chicken-fried steak | Homesick Texan
Rudeness is defined as: lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse; of untaught manners; uncivil; ignorant; lacking chasteness or elegance. Ed and Deb Shapiro: How Does A Waitress Deal With Rude People?
You notice the thin vermilion perimeter of the crypt image, the slight shadow at the edges of each piece of paper, the delicacy of the perforations, the gently authoritative physicality of each of the forms.
The ortolan was so prized as a delicacy that it was almost hunted into extinction.
A Cook's Tour, Bourdain travels the world sampling local cuisines such as fugu, the poisonous blowfish delicacy prepared only by specially licensed Japanese chefs, or haggis, that Scottish dish made from various sheep parts and oatmeal, which he describes as "glorious ... peppery, hot and meaty. The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories
Girls of Sidwell's delicacy do not misally themselves, for they take into account the fact that such misalliance is fraught with elements of unhappiness, affecting husband as much as wife. Born in Exile
The second movement's courtly elegance brought out the delicacy of the imitation through its vibrato-less, pastel shading through which every note could be heard.
In other words, many of the patterns covered have that Western 'bulkiness' which stems from use in waters that tend to be 'heavier' while still retaining a certain 'delicacy' consistent with older, traditional styling combined with a certain allusion to realism. Epinions Recent Content for Home
But people writing impolite comments online are rarely in delicate situations; they are merely thrilling to their own indelicacy. The Times Literary Supplement
He had, indeed, that strong aversion felt by all the lower ranks of people towards four-footed companions very completely, notwithstanding he had for many years a cat which he called Hodge, that kept always in his room at Fleet Street; but so exact was he not to offend the human species by superfluous attention to brutes, that when the creature was grown sick and old, and could eat nothing but oysters, Mr. Johnson always went out himself to buy Hodge's dinner, that Francis the black's delicacy might not be hurt, at seeing himself employed for the convenience of a quadruped. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson
When they feast a friend they kill an ox, and set immediately a quarter of him raw upon the table (for their most elegant treat is raw beef newly killed) with pepper and salt; the gall of the ox serves them for oil and vinegar; some, to heighten the delicacy of the entertainment, add a kind of sauce, which they call manta, made of what they take out of the guts of the ox; this they set on the fire, with butter, salt, pepper, and onion. A Voyage to Abyssinia
The tea was always brewed and he poured with great delicacy, his long and tabescent fingers clasping the handle of the silver teapot.
So I now appeal to know, to unlock the secret of this mystery delicacy.
To prove his courage, he told her of his present way of life; Louise had known nothing of its hardships, for there is an indefinable pudency inseparable from strong feeling in youth, a delicacy which shrinks from a display of great qualities; and a young man loves to have the real quality of his nature discerned through the incognito. Two Poets
There is an interesting quality of delicacy attributed to Elizabeth.
The morning special was little more than a nice warm pan of a sweet raspberry turnover, a delicacy at the little shop.
Absolutely pure, delicately medicated, exquisitely perfumed, CUTICURA SOAP produces the whitest, clearest skin and softest hands, and prevents inflammation and clogging of the pores, the cause of pimples, blackheads and most complexional disfigurations, while it admits of no comparison with the best of other skin soaps, and rivals in delicacy the most noted and expensive of toilet and nursery soaps. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
Yesterday, a group of us went up to the mountains to pick waxberries, which are a local delicacy.
His father asked him how he was a dozen times a day; his mother talked continually of "that dear boy's narrow escape"; and grandma cockered him up with every delicacy she could invent; and the girls waited on him like devoted slaves. An Old-Fashioned Girl
The springtime delicacy of their budding stands in terrific contrast to the autumnal head beneath.
The high the latest fashion that autumn winter series contains clarity is delicate divine marrow, the outside indelicacy of firm independence shows meticulous woman idiosyncratic.
We found lobsters among the rocks, too, and on some beaches a strange kind of lobsterish delicacy called in Tahiti _varo_, a kind of mantis-shrimp that looks like a superlatively villainous centipede. White Shadows in the South Seas
My father did not witness enough of our cousin's indelicacy to give alarm or he would have acted.
The plaintiffs are not portraying any abnormal sensitivity or delicacy in seeking to worship in an atmosphere of quiet and calm reflexion.
In these three central symphonies, a large orchestra is used economically, with passages of delicacy and refinement akin to chamber music.
The exercise of the voice on the stage is womanly, while she gives out the thoughts of another; but suppose (and it is not unsupposable) a living female Shakespeare to appear on a platform, and utter her inspirations, delicacy is shocked, decency is outraged, and society turns away in disgust! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
His hands were of singular delicacy and beauty.
D darkness of calamity dash of eccentricity dawning of recognition day of reckoning daylight of faith decay of authority declaration of indifference deeds of prowess defects of temper degree of hostility delicacy of thought delirium of wonder depth of despair dereliction of duty derogation of character despoiled of riches destitute of power desultoriness of detail [desultoriness = haphazard; random] device of secrecy devoid of merit devoutness of faith dexterity of phrase diapason of motives [diapason = full, rich, harmonious sound] dictates of conscience difference of opinion difficult of attainment dignity of thought dilapidations of time diminution of brutality disabilities of age display of prowess distinctness of vision distortion of symmetry diversity of aspect divinity of tradition domain of imagination drama of action dream of vengeance drop of comfort ductility of expression dull of comprehension duplicities of might dust of defeat Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
I sink my teeth into the hot, steamy, juicy delicacy.
My favourite plant, lavender, is something of a delicacy for goldfinches - when they've finished all the thistledown, that is.
Today wild rice with its nutty flavour and chewy texture is considered a delicacy, often served as part of gourmet meals.
If my ancestors decided to choose foods cooked in oil as symbolic of Hanukkah, my foremothers found a winner in the potato pancake or latke which is Yiddish for the delicacy. Archive 2006-12-01
Among others, I was much pleased to find a cat-fish, taken in the lake by one of the island fishermen, and also a kind of chub, not found in Switzerland, and called by the fishermen here “Our Lady's Fish,” because it occurs only on the shore of an island where there is a convent, the nuns of which esteem it a great delicacy. Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence
So intent are they upon handling each attendant issue with the utmost delicacy that they risk losing sight of the greater picture.
Alan Donaldson Scottish woodcock, bread sauce and woodcock giblets on toast; When you tell a resident of Edinburgh that there are three one-star Michelin restaurants in the town's old port of Leith, you are usually met with the sort of astonished look reserved for someone who claims to adore the skirl of bagpipes last thing at night, or insists that he craves the Scottish chip-shop delicacy, the battered, deep-fried Mars Bar. From Ships to Michelin Stars
At M. Lambercier's a good maidservant was discharged for having once made use of an expression before us which was thought to contain some degree of indelicacy.
Then, in 1963, he travelled to California and developed a Pop Art style all his own - blazing colours, delicacy of line, geometrical buildings painted in oil and acrylic.
A roast sweetbread was sauced with a Madeira and truffle mix of improbable delicacy.
At the front of her refrigerated stall, prominently displayed near the regional delicacy, Weisswurst, a sign in German reads, Chiemgauer accepted here. Fiscal Localism On Rise In Germany
Conductor Alan Gilbert's approach was large-scale and Wagnerian, with an orchestral sound that stressed power rather than delicacy and often covered the voices, making it difficult to distinguish the text an English translation by Norman Tucker without relying on the supertitles. The Beauty of the Beasts
That's a popular delicacy, much more appealing to some tastes than "pottage" - especially when it is said to be a "mess". Archive 2009-03-01
Do not turn down the native dish of jellied scrod; being offered this delicacy is a sign of respect.
A roast sweetbread was sauced with a Madeira and truffle mix of improbable delicacy.
Didn't she love to eat that delicacy when he cooked it? Times, Sunday Times
Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and inwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost. The Conduct of Life (1860)
One of the culinary favourites here is asparagus and some of the stalls in the vegetable market were piled high with this succulent delicacy.
Many shots are composed with such delicacy and grace that I forgot I was watching a television program.
MEDITERRANEAN KIWI said ... please excuse me for forgetting to mention that the commentators know their greek well: the terms KLEPHT and EXOHIKO are common greek words whose meanings are clear. as for that word TRADITIONAL, clearly salmon klephtiko doesn't fit into the tradition: where on earth would an arcadian find salmon? and if an arcadian of the foregone klepht era ever managed to get one, i wonder whether they would ever think to cook it klepht style? no, they couldnt possibly have put it in their head to do so - it just wouldnt be TRADITIONAL (les kai kollousan sto noima tis lexeis) if i were an arcadian in the late 1800's and i were given a gift of salmon, i would definitely have cooked it klepht style, because i wouldnt have wanted even the NEIGHBOURS to find out what delicacy i was cooking ... what on earth is the traditonal method of cooking salmon in arcadia anyway??? Recipe for Salmon "Kleftiko" (Σολομός Κλέφτικος) and Kleftiko: Its Modern Meaning
The traditional Scottish delicacy is made from a lamb or deer's stomach stuffed with offal such as the lungs and heart, suet, oatmeal and seasoning.
This region produces wines of great delicacy.
Something perhaps in his white set face gave her a momentary qualm, for at tea that afternoon there was toast on the table, a delicacy which she usually banned on the ground that it was bad for him
In short, this was the safest, politest, and, at the same time, the most thorough house of accommodation in town: every thing being conducted so that decency made no intrenchment upon the most libertine pleasures, in the practice of which too, the choice familiars of the house had found the secret so rare and difficult, of reconciling even all the refinements of taste and delicacy with the most gross and determinate gratifications of senuality. Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
The root is the real delicacy of the plant though — called gobo and very popular in Japan, it’s considered the most yang of roots. Reason for Not Eating Out in New York #10: Oh Foraging You May Go
They're considered a real delicacy and are meant to pick up the flavours of the dish they are cooked in. Times, Sunday Times
'Have you never observed through my inexpressibles a large prominency circa genitalia?' he inquired with exquisite delicacy of a colleague. Archive 2004-03-01
But this superb chiller honored the delicacy of the original in its subtle shading of childhood horrors and its wintry evocation of Los Alamos, while delivering two or three terrific set-pieces.
As usual, he was hoping for a good catch of webfoot octopus, which are a delicacy in Korea. Octopus Finds 900-Year-Old Treasure | Impact Lab
The fins are the key ingredient in shark fin soup, a Chinese delicacy. Starbulletin Headlines
The police deployment lasted some four hours, which gives an indication of the delicacy of the situation. Times, Sunday Times
Considering the form of the thoracic space in reference to the general form of the trunk of the living body, I see reason to doubt whether the practitioner can by any boasted delicacy of manipulation, detect an abnormal state of the pulmonary organs by percussion, or the use of the stethoscope, applied at those regions which he terms coracoid, scapulary, subclavian, &c., if the line of his examination be directed from before backwards. Surgical Anatomy
Yet now, resolutely, as only a man can do who is capable of martyring himself for the cause of science, he proceeded to violate all the fineness and delicacy of his nature by making love to the unthinkably disgusting bushwoman. THE RED ONE
The music for harp, vibraphone, xylophone, bell-like glockenspiel and cimbalom often possesses the textural delicacy and sound color associated with the music of Mr. Boulez since the premiere in 1955 of "Le Marteau sans Maitre" ( "The Hammer Without a Master"), which brought him to public attention. Both Challenging and Cool
The incident underlines the delicacy of the political situation in Burma. Times, Sunday Times
They brought a delicacy back to fly fishing on lakes that some of the new techniques had removed. Times, Sunday Times
She was a Romantic ballerina of fugitive lightness, with a delicacy as much like steel as late.
The miniature acquired an aesthetic of its own, an intimacy and delicacy of charm not derived from or possible for the full-size oil portrait.
The delicacy is made with strips of goat meat mixed with curry powder, chopped red chillies and salt. The Sun
Shameful state includes the exposure of physical indelicacy and off intellectual and moral weakness.
I'd used a pale celadon glaze, trying to match with color the airiness and delicacy of the pieces. THE SAVING GRACES
Waterblommetjie bredie is regarded as a great delicacy in the Western Cape.
The name, the accompaniments, and the child's expression betoken a rare delicacy of conception. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
The ensembles are performed with delicacy or gusto as required.
Can she who professed delicacy of sentiment and sincere regard for me, use me so very basely and so very cruelly?
What he meant, and what Mademoiselle Valle knew he meant -- also what he knew she knew he meant -- was that a woman, who was a heartless fool, without sympathy or perception, would not have the delicacy to feel that the girl must be shielded, and might actually see a sort of ghastly joke in a story of Mademoiselle Valle's sacrosanct charge simply walking out of her enshrining arms into such a "galere" as the most rackety and adventurous of pupils could scarcely have been led into. The Head of the House of Coombe
Apologising for the indelicacy he asks Nelly the amount involved.
Besides, between friends, I, who know the world, can see that half this prodigious delicacy for the little usurper is the mere result of self-interest; for, while her affairs are hushed up, Sir John's, you know, are kept from being brought further to light. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
He can be rather repetitive, but his best work has great delicacy of colour and handling and a poignant sense of lost innocence.
I learnt that the most precious things in my life have never been treated with any delicacy.
Instead, each delicacy is divided among several small plates, which are strategically placed around the table. The Greek Holiday Table: Recipe for Soutzoukakia/Smyrna Sausages in Tomato-Wine Sauce (Σουτζουκάκια Σμυρνέικα)
Food is less available and expensive food such as red meat is a rare delicacy. Coping with Angina
Mr. Grantley, without any indelicacy or mention of their previous meeting, smiled at her when the customary salutations were being made.
Delvile, though their total separation but the moment before had been finally decreed, she considered as a weak effusion of tenderness, injurious to delicacy, and censurable by propriety. Cecilia
Instead of the elegant simplicity which once characterized this sweet secluded retreat, an air of voluptuousness reigned in every quarter: the paintings, the artfully concealed recesses in which the sofas were placed, the mirrors — all, in short, evinced a taste repugnant to the nicer feelings of true female delicacy — all breathed a fascinating influence, rather calculated to derange the virtuous sensations of the heart, rather than to render them more permanent. Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
He handled the situation with extreme delicacy.
The first thing you will need for this delicacy is a big bowl. Archive 2007-03-01
How about sweet peas for fragrance and delicacy of form and colour? 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
In public their relationship is characterized by an unfamiliar delicacy and restraint. The Times Literary Supplement
But it was not to be avoided: he made her feel that she was the object of all; though she could not say that it was unpleasantly done, that there was indelicacy or ostentation in his manner; and sometimes, when he talked of William, he was really not unagreeable, and shewed even a warmth of heart which did him credit. Mansfield Park
No such ban in Japan, where fugu is considered the ultimate delicacy. The World’s Wildest Delicacies | Impact Lab
The fine furnishings bespoke delicacy and elegance that belied the shop's humble line of business.
In his article he discusses the matter with considerable delicacy.
By now, he was firing on all cylinders, yet managing passages of the most mercurial wit and exquisite delicacy. Times, Sunday Times
Their delicacy, their vigor, their penetrativeness, their unlikeness to those called for on the material plane, show the contrast of the earth-life to the spirit-life. Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect
The shape recalls a baignoire , or bath—a form Cartier has featured for decades—and implies a sense of indulgence and delicacy also reflected in the name. Time for Something Special
He floated alongside the feeding turtle, amazed by its beauty and delicacy; like a breed of angel itself.
How about sweet peas for fragrance and delicacy of form and colour? 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
Though he acknowledges the delicacy of criticizing the Soviet regime, Eliot's political objection was that the only good guy in Orwell's allegory seemed to be Trotsky, and he didn't like Trotsky: Now I think my own dissatisfaction with this apologue is that the effect is simply one of negation. “Your Pigs Are Far More Intelligent”
Personally, I want to say he was a ‘gentleman,’ to signify some old fashioned manner he had, a courtesy and delicacy and diplomacy.
The large, nutlike seeds found between the scales of the cones are no delicacy, being starchy and bland, but provide a useful food to many peoples.
Dr Jaffrey handed us a plate of dates:traditionally the delicacy with which to break the Ramadan fast.
Smoked salmon was considered an expensive delicacy.
President's picture, full of grace and life, and richly meriting the term exquisite: nothing can be finer than the dark luxuriant hair contrasted with the alabaster delicacy and elegance of the features; the eyes too beam with benignant expressiveness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829)
Sixteen species of New Zealand's native freshwater fish have been recorded in the region including the threatened giant kokopu (Galaxias argenteus), short-jawed kokopu (G. postvectis), and the inanga (G. maculates) whose young are considered a culinary delicacy. Westland temperate forests
The restaurant, "Kibunya," was unlicensed to prepare and serve puffer, a delicacy in Japan known as fugu, and owner Iwao Aizawa, was being questioned by police on the suspicion of professional negligence resulting in injuries. Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS)
The music begins with an allegro animato which is reflective and oriental in its delicacy, but also contains more dramatic percussive music.
Such escape tactics, in which the image of the castrato is wrenched from the sound of his voice in the name of delicacy or comfort is significant both to the study of the castrato specifically and to the study of image/sound relations in romanticism more generally. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
Through a delicacy of shading, like the art of Bach himself for purity, poignancy, and clarity, he envelops us with the thrilling atmosphere of the most absolutely musical music in the world.
Fish glacial delicacy basically is hairtail, breed yellow croaker, pomfret, flatfish, mullet, Spanish mackerel to wait.
The boiled chrysalis of a species of silkworm is exposed for sale as a great delicacy, and so are certain kinds of hairless, fleshy caterpillars. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
The result is wines unique in the world for their combination of low alcohol (often only about eight per cent), striking aroma, high extract, and delicacy of texture.
Catalano, who could be robust and forthright in the expression of his views, was a poet of great delicacy and precision, a master of the fragilities.
For the eye has every possible defect that can be found in an optical instrument, and even some which are peculiar to itself; but they are all so counteracted, that the inexactness of the image which results from their presence very little exceeds, under ordinary conditions of illumination, the limits which are set to the delicacy of sensation by the dimensions of the retinal cones. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
There's a sense of delicacy and detail in his approach that saves it from descending into rarefied archness.
These structures are delicate and avoidance of injury requires delicacy and precision while performing the surgery.
These pieces are engraved with the delicacy of a fine line pencil drawing.
Two girls are asking the assistant how to cook drisheen, the Irish black pudding which can only be described as a hard-core delicacy. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Your risotto looks really good, but although I respect sea urchin roe as a great delicacy, the smell of iodine really puts me off. Recipe for Sea Urchin Risotto (Ριζότο με Αχινό)
The chapter on the nest, its delicacy, its fragile nature and the monumental painful effort of the bird to build it is wonderful.
You may already be familiar with its crispy crust pastry and mildly spiced creamy filling but now you can prepare this tasty French delicacy in your own kitchen.
Gondi, which is full of delicacy and grace, in Borg 'Ognissanti, and that of Lanfredino Lanfredini, which is very ornate and rich in the variety of its compartments, on the Lungarno between the Ponte S. Trinita and the Ponte della Carraja, near S. S.irito. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto
The pale delicacy of marinated yellowtail is bolstered by a feisty trio of kohlrabi, radish, and mint.
She will expect to meet with all the good-breeding and delicacy that she brings; and as she is past the glare and 'eclat' of youth, may be the more willing to listen to your story, if you tell it well. Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1751
No, saris are not symbols of delicacy, of fragile femininity; of posh don't-get-your-hands dirty pettiness!
This creates a South African delicacy called biltong - which has been used since the 1600s by farmers, as a way of preserving and storing meat. SurvivalBlog.com
Lactones, phenolic aldehydes (such as vanillin), terpenes (essential oils) and wood tannins are all by-products of oak, so it is understandable that too much can rob a white wine of its fruit and delicacy.
The delicacy and the dignity of meaning attaching to the word render it an epithet especially appropriate to Beatrice, as implying all that is loveliest in person and character. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
A cornettist equally capable of filigree delicacy and challenging power, Barnard's contribution to jazz is considerable.
Love sublimed by a purity, by a true delicacy, that hardly any woman before her could boast of. Clarissa Harlowe
Such escape tactics, in which the image of the castrato is wrenched from the sound of his voice in the name of delicacy or comfort is significant both to the study of the castrato specifically and to the study of image/sound relations in romanticism more generally. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
The delicacy of the molecular structure and of the dynamics may also play a role.
You can taste the romance and refinement of European classicalism, the luxury and generosity of American pragmatism, the tenderness and delicacy of the Orient and the ardor of the tropical islands.
Ultimately, this gourmet feast of pan-Asian delicacy was a success, for the artists and those who attended.
Are we not ourselves creating our successors in the supremacy of the earth? daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their organisation, daily giving them greater skill and supplying more and more of that self-regulating self-acting power which will be better than any intellect? Erewhon
Crass suggests a grossness of mind precluding discrimination or delicacy.
There is a matter of some delicacy which I would like to discuss.
In public their relationship is characterized by an unfamiliar delicacy and restraint. The Times Literary Supplement
South Devon crab is a neglected delicacy in this country. Times, Sunday Times
As in statuary to the artist the partly undraped figure is suggestive only of beauty, free from indelicacy, so to the saint the personal excellencies of Jesus Christ, typified under the ideal of the noblest human form. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The kabab occupied pride of place in the new cuisine and Indian chefs vied to transform a rustic, spit-roasted barbecue into a rare delicacy with a combination of exotic spices, marinades and chutneys.
Considered a delicacy and served in restaurants, diamondback terrapins were heavily harvested along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts through most of the past century.
But, however that is to be, we have all laid our heads together, and are determined, for your delicacy — sake, to let this matter take its course; since, after an opening so undesignedly warm, you might otherwise imagine our solicitude in the affair capable of beiny thought too urgent. Sir Charles Grandison
She is prevented by motives of delicacy from accepting the renewal of his addresses.
The assistant moves with preternatural delicacy, and speed, and soon the ant is seated.
Brash, brawny but capable of a hushed delicacy, the duo's music owes as much to the psychedelic improvs of the US ‘jam band’ movement as to any notions of ‘jazz’ (um, whatever that is).
Artificial plants will suffice (unless you intend to breed your fish), but the glowlight tetra finds that real plants are a delicacy along with its usual fare of tropical flake food, tubifex worms, and brine shrimp.
Both countries are behaving with rare delicacy.
Catharine, on the other hand, considered him rather as an encroacher upon the grace which she had shown him than one whose delicacy rendered him deserving of such favour. The Fair Maid of Perth

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