The stack of books had been delicately balanced on the counter, and now the woman's enthusiastic round face was visible.

Then he delicately balanced a couple of tent poles so that any movement would dislodge them.

But she balances delicately, introducing comedy at awful, unlikely moments.

Randolph is delicately balancing a desire for momentum heading into the playoffs against a concern for health.

The world tipped edgewise and he balanced delicately and managed to maintain his equilibrium.

At the heart of the challenge for artist-educators is the need to delicately balance the interests of two very different - sometimes irreconcilable - audiences.

What might strike some listeners as jumpy or jarring is delicately balanced with standards, nuanced and newly seen.

Rescuers and law-enforcement officers in Oklahoma City talk about the way the two teams have delicately balanced their missions.

Thus three powers were delicately balanced in Sicily by 483 BC.

I found myself balancing delicately on a sack of flour, my camera bag swinging with every swerve of the truck.