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Example sentences for: delicacy
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To the ancient Mexicans, the maguey plant was considered sacred, and the fact that the worm had ingested a part of the “spirit” of this revered plant made consuming them both a delicacy and a way to obtain good luck.
Mitchell, who has built his business on the delicacy of his palate (he was profiled last week in the New York Times as the prime supplier of the city's high-end fish), speaks with the understated authority of a master craftsman.
For the private client, there are still masterpieces of rare delicacy and breathtaking beauty or exquisitely simple practicality, all made possible by the materials and hand-workmanship available to couture houses, and conceived by designers modifying their ideas to suit each client's taste and figure.
Their streamlined edges help create a new mood in de Kooning's art, one of delicacy, radiance, and calm.
Note the characteristically airtight yet elliptical prose, the world-weary delicacy that records "the difference between a rule and a moral point" but commits neither to one nor the other.