In late fall, elk come down from the mountains to pick their way across gravel bars toward the water, on hooves impossibly delicate beneath their thick bodies.

With an impossibly delicate gesture she presses her clenched hand, sheathed in a pale leather glove, to her chest as if it were a spiral brooch.

Shop like royalty (or window-shop like mere mortals) for exquisite crystal and jewellery here, where the simplest ring - impossibly delicate - goes for €150.

It was a broad blurred disc, deep crimson, streaked with spots and bands of sable, hazing at the edges into impossibly delicate coronal arabesques.

The new regulations for London 2012, reducing team sizes and forcing certain riders to cover more than one event, will require an impossibly delicate juggling act.

It was a fine face, an impossibly delicate body.

The big right hand, large-knuckled and short-nailed, descended on the keys with an impossibly delicate touch.

Her little body seemed impossibly delicate; a strong wind would shatter her, I thought.

The courtyard, with its impossibly delicate spires, gargoyles and statuary, is accessible via a metal detector from rue aux Juifs; this is also the entrance to use if you'd like to sit in on a trial.

The salad was served with an impossibly delicate vinegar dressing that was almost sweet but not quite.