They were delicately constructed from cotton or silk, and small enough to fit in the palm of a hand.

This thesis is illustrated on every page of her delicately constructed memoir, "Time to Be in Earnest," whose opening trick is to pretend to be just a diary.

The story is delicately constructed, its ironies quiet and affecting.

As President of Serbia, Mr. Milosevic engineered the destruction of Marshal Tito's delicately constructed Yugoslav federation.

The proceedings of such a day occasion various fluctuations in the human thermometer, and especially in instruments so sensitively and delicately constructed as Mrs Varden.

The delicately constructed positions of the statewide officials are a reminder that the complications of closing a nuclear plant go far beyond fervent and visceral emotions.

The format was the same each time: dinner at some elegant place, well-managed conversation, ultimately a delicately constructed invitation for her to spend the sleep-period with him.

The delicately constructed subject matter and figures subordination to the buildings represent a movement away from fête galante, however this development was cut short by Pater's death in 1736.

Benjamin Britten's delicately and beautifully constructed opera.

The negotiating program had to be watered down so much to obtain agreement that one Japanese trade official called the delicately constructed declaration "a perfect balance of unhappiness."