Discussions abroad, of course, are always delicate, particularly in China.

He seemed more delicate in clothes than he had without them.

Delicate in the sense that it could be a focus of confrontation.

But after the initial violence it stopped, and became delicate in its movements.

Also, they both were delicate in their relationships with people.

They are delicate in a way that most meatballs aren't.

His long brown fingers were delicate and precise in their movements.

At a very young age he was very delicate in health.

The latter, therefore, have remained too delicate in their development during the period of growth.

They may have built up a tentative, but beautiful, theory, perhaps rather delicate in its structure.