Comtesse de Bouchaud is a fairylike thing, with white petals edged lavender, delicately curled. |
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He looked unkempt and in some distress as he stepped delicately from his car wearing blue pyjama bottoms, slippers and a collarless white shirt. |
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But amongst the books were also handwritten journals, and she even found a delicately drawn out family tree. |
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Here is her contribution, as delicately phrased as one might expect in such an august literary journal. |
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She had layered, raven black hair which framed her delicately featured face. |
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The same woman waited until the delicately poised last chords of Mahler's slow movement to get up and leave. |
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There were handsome ships anchored in the harbor, many-sailed with delicately carved figureheads. |
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The tears were still fresh in her eyes, balancing delicately as they rippled across her eyes, filmy and scared. |
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Who am I to interpose in the delicately poised quadrille of consumers and the fulfillers of dreams? |
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Daisy has a fragility that is beautifully conveyed in her delicately ungainly first-person narration. |
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The art is delicately done on a textured paper and a fixative is applied before mounting. |
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After that time, you can take a peek, and check delicately that the fish flesh flakes easily. |
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My mother bought me some earlier in the year and it is a very delicately flavoured tea. |
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Smiling caterers, in long white robes, served delicious spiced lamb, chicken, mounds of delicately flavoured rice and plump dates and figs. |
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A delicately stitched 19th century sampler conveys the idea of women's handiwork and family bonds. |
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This is the most delicately flavoured rhubarb there is, cosseted and pampered to keep its subtlety. |
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A side order of courgette fritters might have been more delicately and less greasily battered but this too was enjoyable in a chipshop way. |
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It was composed of remnants, fragments, collages, woven together delicately with words. |
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Stone tools include delicately made blades, microburins, burins, scrapers, and adzes. |
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The pastry was delicately flaky, rich and buttery but not overwhelmingly so, and the frangipane was soft, flavorful and simply marvellous. |
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She shook her head, short cropped red hair dancing delicately in the movement. |
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The Muricidae includes many large, spectacularly spined and delicately fronded species which are favourites with collectors. |
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It has a soothing, refreshing, and delicately fruity taste, and is served, very sweet, several times a day all over the Arab world. |
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I followed his lead but as I sipped my soup delicately my mind was awhirl with thoughts of Annabelle's new personality. |
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Its face, beneath a shaggy fall of raven black curls, was delicately shaped and as stark as bone, with no hint of rosy cheek or kind intention. |
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Colorful, full-length skirts are worn with delicately embroidered white blouses, sometimes worn off the shoulder. |
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It consisted of delicately inlaying colored clays into white bodied pottery. |
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He wouldn't let go of his grip on her as he kissed her ear lobe delicately. |
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A smile was playing around her lips as she dabbed delicately at the corner of her eyes. |
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Katrina held up a light blue diamond flower, which hung delicately from a dainty chain. |
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Andrew Christofides's asymmetrically gridded paintings are delicately graded and modeled. |
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She looks down her dainty nose, her delicately featured face wrinkling in genteel distaste. |
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Pieces are delicately crafted, with full use made of the wonderful texture and colours ingrained in the wood. |
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Fred Astaire's attire, in his RKO musicals of the 1930s, was always delicately and meticulously designed with performance in mind. |
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In Sadness, these two threads are delicately and skillfully woven together to create an elegant and intensely moving documentary. |
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There were stalls set up all along the boardwalk, people selling delicately crafted jewellery or gorgeously coloured paintings. |
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It was a beautiful arrangement of white roses and baby's breath, and he slipped it onto my wrist delicately, as if I might break. |
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The building's delicately sculpted arches, domes and turrets are brilliantly mirrored in the waters below. |
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A young woman photographer, much more delicately sketched, snaps a picture in the background. |
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Her detailed works are precisely and delicately rendered in a colorful, flat style worthy of high-quality children's picture books. |
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The spice is light brown in color and has a delicately fragrant aroma and warm, sweet flavor. |
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The pretty stripes, soft flannels, and delicately shaded plaids are worn for lawn-tennis, croquet and archery suits. |
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The girls' love is treated delicately, like any young love affair, and never in an exploitative manner. |
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Faye had asked, finishing her tea and delicately placing the teacup on the small coffee table. |
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He was obliged to hint delicately at the dire news to his invalid and still absent wife. |
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The watercolor illustration of men and women and landscapes was framed in gold, and the letters of the title were delicately hammered gold leaf. |
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The bandage was delicately applied to the tender joint, where a bruise was starting to develop. |
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The same forces pushed both towards a resolution of their delicately balanced positions in favour of business and trade respectively. |
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In her new spring collection, which ranged from large tote bags to delicately embroidered evening bags, there was something for every occasion. |
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In one hand, balanced delicately between her fingers was a half full balloon glass of red wine. |
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Fretted screens diffuse the light, and wooden doors and panels are delicately carved. |
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He had a delicately masoned stone plaque built into a wall by the fortress bearing his coat of arms and the year of construction. |
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The girl seems delicately poised between past and present, youth and eternity, bedlam and meditation. |
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Redundancies are never happy news, but word reached El Reg that things were not handled terribly delicately in Bristol. |
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Ben watched with amazement that turned to pride as Hoss delicately guided Alberta Evans into the first few measures of the dance. |
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A threaded through ball from Cabanas is placed delicately past a sprawling Barthez by the excellent Vonlanthen. |
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He touched his blue silk bathrobe delicately as he wandered around, admiring his exorbitant surroundings. |
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When he conducted, the baton looked small and yet he held it so delicately. |
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This will be the team's third challenge, and as ever the outcome will hang delicately in the balance. |
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His name was Marc Saison, and to hear it pronounced from his own delicately full lips gave it such sweet melody it charmed one's ears. |
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Anna held a tea service and Sarah bore a tray with a small mound of sandwiches from which the crusts had been delicately cut. |
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Every tree, every bush, even the grass, all covered in butterflies, gently beating their wings, and flying delicately from one perch to another. |
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Put delicately, this large and disparate family finds it difficult to agree on anything. |
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It sounds like a primarily comic conceit, and an undertone of drollery does indeed resonate delicately throughout. |
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Macdonald's delicately woven, bejeweled, scanty costumes were elevated to their very best effect by Balfour's exquisite lighting. |
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Director Miranda Harcourt deals delicately with this script, loaded as it is with double entendres. |
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Instead of explosions, we find delicately crafted compositions of shadow and darkness. |
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Secret shames are divulged delicately, drawing viewers into the lives of the characters. |
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If your nails lack luster, try delicately massaging some oil into them to give them a nice shine. |
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She wore a yellow satin dress with a white sash tied delicately around her waist. |
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She had an intricately carved wooden box tucked under her arm that she cradled delicately. |
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My eyes were trained on her as she delicately stepped off the curb ran lightly across the street. |
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She sniffed delicately as her ears moved to the sounds of crickets chirping. |
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The delicately branched woodland horsetail and two ground pines also grow here. |
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Other small-scale terra-cottas are delicately modeled beach and seascapes in the form of small relief plaques. |
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Federal doorways may have been preferred because of the appeal of the delicately mullioned fanlights and sidelights that usually framed them. |
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The skeletal mouth opened in a wide yawn, a centipede unknown to Anthony sleeping delicately on his tongue. |
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The huge, green-lentil dosa based on mung beans is a delicious triangle filled with a delicately textured, well-seasoned stuffing. |
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War twitched her reins slightly as Archer arched her neck and pranced delicately on the spot. |
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There is a thin coating of make-up on her face and her silvery hair is delicately cut. |
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In Charlotte Street, where girls simper, giggle delicately and live on Marlboro Lights, this is fighting talk. |
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Signaling my server for more brandy, I broke the cake in two, and delicately bit off a morsel. |
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This is a couple of country miles from the way mental unbalance is delicately suggested by Henry James. |
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When delicately colored, the resulting print resembled the original watercolor. |
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We must delicately wince at their uncleanliness, while empowering them to sterilise their living spaces. |
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Locally, linear grooves have been delicately eroded to form small meanders with undercut walls. |
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They take their glasses delicately by the stems and bring them together in a mock show of etiquette. |
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The colours, like delicately tinted porcelain, of the gods, figurines rather than figures, accord with the unemphatic grace of the composition. |
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The bottom halves of the cookies were imbued with the rhubarb juices and thus softened, while the top halves remained delicately crispy. |
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After delicately dipping a last onion ring in mayonnaise, he moistens his throat with a slug of brandy, and starts to talk. |
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A breaded, delicately seasoned pan-fried grouper fillet brought our attention back to the food. |
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I'm sure my neighbours must have loved me, since the noise it made could delicately be called an absolute racket. |
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The fate of the cricketer, however, is hanging in the balance rather delicately. |
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This has to be handled VERY delicately, and there are no easy answers or obvious solutions. |
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Made from delicately embroidered cotton, the gown looks almost new on the happy baby. |
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Tiny perfume bottles in delicately colored glass always brought Laura to mind. |
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When confronted with a waffle for the first time, Sugar sniffs delicately and digests a tiny nibble. |
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The humour is broad and robust, but underneath the comedy is delicately balanced with pathos. |
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The chicken is delicately spiced and served with a griddled vegetable couscous. |
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Kira was laying, her head laying delicately on a rock, her hair splayed out around her head like a nimbus. |
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It's a soft-smelling, nutty, delicately aromatic beer that tastes similarly light and delicate. |
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Consumers are seeking out specific specialty honeys, from delicately perfumed sage to citrusy orange blossom. |
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A whole carp steamed or braised with fresh ginger and delicately seasoned with Chinese rice wine will be the third course. |
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He was particularly excited about a delicately flavored burrata from Brooklyn he plans to serve over toasted garlic bread. |
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She was a dark, muscular figure sipping delicately at her spouted wine goblet. |
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Her face was delicately formed with a thin, shapely nose and a slightly pointed chin. |
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The spiced pork was flavoured only delicately, and a touch on the dry side, but that just allowed it to soak up the rich jus with more gusto. |
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He walked across to the next room, delicately opened the door and peeped through. |
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The fat was distributed delicately yet densely throughout the meat, looking almost like snow. |
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I held my breath and awaited a reply as you shifted your weight delicately, calculatedly. |
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She gently pressed the note in her palm, touching the delicately written calligraphy with her fingertips. |
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It was a beautiful room, with its chequerboard tiled floor and delicately stencilled creamy walls. |
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When not harmonizing in delicately woven, acoustic guitar-based balladry, Rogue's vocals levitate above pedal steel, Moog and upright bass. |
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There's also roast beef, delicately sliced from the rare side or carved away in dense pieces on the well done side. |
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The scent of bougainvillea mingles delicately with the aroma of cannelloni. |
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She shifted her legs, being careful not to catch her trousers on the seat edge and sniffed the air delicately. |
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The sauce was rich and delicately spiced, with a hint of turmeric and a sprinkling of fresh coriander. |
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Inside, the ceiling's ornately moulded plaster-work has been delicately repaired and the entire room whitewashed. |
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Yes, Will's prose is more orotund and the moral is more delicately unfurled. |
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A door opens at stage left, and four small aoudads, delicately horned mountain sheep from North Africa, spring into the auction cage. |
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This is despite the likes of the Washington Post delicately skirting round the direct quote. |
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She smiles and even giggles constantly, and her otherwise flawless creamy complexion is delicately etched with laughter lines. |
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He's simultaneously attracted to and repelled by the locale, and the movie seems always balanced delicately between the two. |
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I donned a luminous green observer's jacket and watched in awe as the victim was delicately secured and taken away. |
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An additional untitled track appears on my copy, delicately picked strings give a warm, fragile romantic pastoral glossiness throughout. |
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She eyed the mounds of apples, bananas, peaches, and pineapples before delicately selecting one perfectly round peach. |
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Almost afraid to touch it, he delicately set it next to the small table lamp. |
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A woman dressed in a white doctor's coat walked in, delicately, like an ice sculpture might walk. |
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She sat, perched delicately on a stool at the bar that was right down the street from her dorm. |
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He took the seat, delicately perching himself on the rather precarious space. |
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He was vacillating, bombastic, insecure and perfervid by turns, but his poetry is as delicately complex as any. |
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The cell wall is usually delicately ornamented and perforated by minute holes. |
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The biographer delicately demonstrates the impact of this tumultuous childhood on the poet's work, without resorting to cod psychology. |
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Its silver reflection lay delicately on the calm, deep blue water, like the shimmering gown of a fair lady. |
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Like its brethren, it is encased by a frustule, a rigid cell wall delicately marked with pores in patterns distinctive enough for scientists to tell the species apart. |
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The cheery 69-year-old father of eight sits in the center with his wife and delicately brandishes a small, brown book. |
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He tops the concoction with a shot of bourbon and delicately spoons in a couple ice cubes. |
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Probably my favorite dessert, Ras Malai is dumplings made from cottage or ricotta cheese soaked in sweetened, thickened milk delicately flavored with cardamom. |
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Lipstick had stroked a thin line across her lips, while delicately manicured and bejewelled fingers beat out an impatient rhythm on the menu cover. |
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I just found it depressingly tone deaf for a show that typically handles these sensitive issues so delicately. |
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Each cluster is made up of circular grapes of fiery black opals and delicately tooled gold leaves covered in translucent green enamel, spaced equally along the chain. |
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A delicately crafted link bracelet was soon joined by a bracelet forged to look like a wreath of lilies and one of several strands of gold with emeralds woven into it. |
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This is probably the most nuanced, delicately expressed message of the film and it seems to be the one area where he doesn't go for the kneejerk answer or the easy lampoon. |
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Instead he emerges dripping wet from a bathtub and delicately buttons a dress shirt over his ripped, exposed torso. |
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So far, so predictable, but its huge flanks are encased in a delicately ribbed translucent skin that scintillates arrestingly with both natural and artificial light. |
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The leading edge of the ice freezes to the stem's papery bark, and as the ice grows it is lifted upward by the attached bark, forming delicately curved, lacy ribbons. |
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In other words, they end up inadvertently ordering something they aren't going to like, like a tannic red wine to go with a delicately prepared fish. |
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Then, as the car pulled away, he again began his slow movements with the girl delicately balanced on the hitching post. |
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They are part of a delicately balanced teeter-totter, which can exist in one state or the other, but transits through the middle stage almost overnight. |
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His delicately peroxided locks also contribute to his irresistible charms. |
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The mastheads were delicately carved with figures and trees, the sails were plain white that buckled and flapped in the winds like swans about to fly. |
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Big-bellied and slope-shouldered, he is suspended delicately in mid-air, his hands clasped patiently behind his back, his twin shadowing him close behind. |
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Himalaya, a new film by author, documentarian, and National Geographic photographer Eric Valli, is finally a feature that delicately captures raw Tibetan culture. |
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He serves it on a toothsome, melt-in-the-mouth compote of beetroot, red onion and red cabbage, delicately flavoured with a hint of caraway and possibly cumin seed. |
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I am given bhel puri delicately served in a small portion followed by the best version of the humble green sprouted moong dal served on a one-inch dia papad. |
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Once orbiting the Earth the crew delicately manoeuvred a 100 ft movable crane tipped with lasers and a camera to inspect the wings and nose for damage. |
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On my way back to the camp I nearly ran smack into the blonde girlfriend of the Range Rover pilot as she delicately stepped from the women's porto-can. |
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In the kitchen, marinara pots simmer with 100-year-old family recipes, potato gnocchi float delicately to the surface of boiling water, and braciola is prepared fork-tender. |
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There's no doubt in my mind that Christina can sing soft and delicately. |
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There was a delicately made chest of drawers and a vanity table. |
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Six Ceduna Bay oysters were chilling on a bed of ice, topped with a mixture of shaved leek, soy sauce, lemon juice, wasabi and delicately garnished with a thin sheet of nori. |
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It dispenses the necessary white stuff delicately with the minimum of fuss while the oafs around you flounder with fiddly lids and squeezy bottles. |
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That is what might delicately be referred to as one helluva stretch. |
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In that dwelling place Connor presented Emmanuelle with a golden Celtic cross which he placed delicately upon her breast and secured about her neck. |
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I held it delicately in my hand and continued to stare at the oak chest. |
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As we journey through Cook's life, we get a clear if passionless commentary, which delicately glosses over unpleasantness and is regularly brightened by, fancy that, facts. |
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If the lamps add the glow to your home, the delicately woven throw rugs from Europe, in pastel colours and soft texture, promise to add more warmth by the hearth. |
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Along the tops of the walls and gullies are many small hydroid clumps which, in turn, attract a range of delicately coloured nudibranchs that feed on them. |
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Basically resembling a pear-shaped melon, the papaya, with it's delicately scented, creamy orange coloured flesh and sweet flavour, is one of the best of all tropical fruits. |
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The brushwork is exuberantly coloristic, the palette composed of delicately keyed harmonies of rose and coral, cool aquamarines, frothy whites, pale golds, and blues. |
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Between the slab and the black marble base is a double arcade of carved alabaster delicately embellished with trefoil arches, crocket capitals, and pinnacles. |
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Not only were these eyesight correctors the brightest shade of pink ever discovered, but also scattered on their surface were delicately shaped diamonds and various gemstones. |
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Occasionally I came upon a precocious spray of Dutchman's breeches, or wild bleedingheart, hung frailly with delicately transparent shell-like blossoms. |
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Beautiful blonde locks and bouncy curls framed the delicately shaped face. |
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Special attention was given to the altar screen, which is made using an extremely complicated technique of thin and delicately carved ivory, ebony and mahogany plates. |
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The Gothic palace is a stark monstrosity that is in striking contrast to the delicately chiselled and embellished Palacio Nazaries, the Moorish royal palace. |
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Dawn ate delicately, popping the hot pieces carefully into her mouth. |
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She took her time to reach me, walking delicately in my direction. |
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The situation now is proceeding delicately in view of that assumption. |
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With the game delicately poised, it was anybody's in the second half. |
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Like the polar bear, the groundhog, and other creatures of the wild, professional eaters have internal barometers, delicately calibrated to different times of the year. |
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Clasped behind the helmet on the neckband was delicately embroidered silk, decorated with jewels and parrots stitched between painted purple flowers. |
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So these things have to be handled very, very delicately, and the way I'm trying to do that is to evoke a sense of memory as opposed to a sense of anger. |
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I imagined myself, some ancient Neronian diner, gourmandizing on a delicately flavoured lark's tongue, or a lightly killed dormouse on a stick. |
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Among the available prints are delicately rendered portraits of a platypus, a weasel and a tenrec from A General History of Quadrupeds. |
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Ancient oaks and a smattering of loblolly pines shade us while the sun seeps delicately through the branches. |
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The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost! |
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This deft, delicately wrought story is Murakami at his best. |
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The intergrown foliage atop a xylosma hedge appears to be delicately balanced on long wooden fingers. |
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Looking through a microscope, researchers find each nanotube and delicately bring it in line with an electrical contact. |
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The large wooden tree that took centre stage came alive for Wait It Out, a beautiful little song with Heap plinking away delicately on the piano. |
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Its delicately painted decoration depicts vine and myrtle leaves, both associated with Dionysos, to whom wine parties were dedicated. |
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Her choker and earrings, made of dentalium shells, hang delicately, framing her face. |
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The establishment has to tiptoe around her and handle her delicately. |
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Flavours are usually subtle and delicately spiced, unlike the spicy curries typically associated with Indian cuisine. |
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After the first firing, Camarot painted underglaze colors and delicately scribed highlights. |
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These sweet, succulent premium wholetail Langoustine, are delicately hand-peeled, then filled with a delicious garlic butter. |
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Tension is well done and builds delicately through a spiderweb of plots and subplots in this fine haunting, chilling tale. |
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The old nomenklaturas of the Soviet era were always delicately balanced among the several different regions of Tajikistan. |
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The gingerbread was delicately, if imprecisely, captured by the brushstrokes. |
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Boards are often like Swiss watches, finely tuned and delicately balanced, sometimes requiring years of care and nurturance from the CEO and chair to achieve this state. |
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The Chef's Choice award went to Terrel Smith, whose buffet items all incorporated blueberries, featuring a wedding cake with a delicately crafted sphere as one tier. |
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The balance of power was very delicately calculated, so that winning a battle here was worth the slice of territory there, with no regard to the wishes of the inhabitants. |
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Maria Marte is delicately spooning a smooth parsley sauce from a blender into a bowl, in preparation for one of the most exclusive meals money can buy in the Spanish capital. |
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To achieve a balanced taste, characteristic flavorings such as saffron, dried lime, cinnamon, and parsley are mixed delicately and used in some special dishes. |
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Much of the porcelain from the early Kangxi period is delicately painted in underglaze blue, and these are beautifully decorated with flowering branches and flying insects. |
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Frank's Biro taps delicately at the topmost of the little yellow notes. |
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His broad Scottish brogue is countered by some delicately fingerpicked guitar and his work is shot-through with the folk traditions of these islands. |
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Before you reinstall the thermostat, you may want to take very fine emery cloth and delicately polish the gallery walls where the thermostat is installed. |
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