At the same time she delicately touched upon the social questions of the day employing language in the balladic-melancholic key.

Then a burning green star delicately touched the rim wall at the point where the earlier star had rested.

She delicately touched the edge of it; she could feel the ball move.

He delicately touched and then prodded the white area around the punctures.

"Yes," she said, continuing to watch the screen while one hand delicately touched the monitor in her ear.

It was almost as if a loving hand reached out and delicately touched her, with affectionate fingers.

He delicately touched my forehead and recoiled, as if my skin might burn him.

The dandy delicately touched his lips with a scrap of lace.

Several are delicately touching; others range beyond satire into comic mystery.

Again I touched delicately, knowing the child's fear of the notus.