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delicacy
synonyms for delicacy
- elegance
- fragility
- lightness
- subtlety
- tenderness
- airiness
- debility
- exquisiteness
- frailness
- frailty
- infirmity
- slenderness
- smoothness
- softness
- tenuity
- translucency
- transparency
- weakness
- diaphaneity
- etherealness
- gossameriness
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Not content to just mass-produce lab-grown fish fillets, it has focused on developing prized delicacies, especially fish maw.
I Tried Lab-Grown Fish Maw. Here's Why It Could Help Save Our Oceans | Amy Gunia/Hong Kong | September 17, 2021 | TimeEnjoy the local delicacy with this summery cocktail that uses TINCUP’s bourbon, which is aged for 10 years.
Add These 5 Backcountry Lodges to Your Adventure Bucket List | elessard | August 12, 2021 | Outside OnlineIt was a delicacy from the gods in order to not go to sleep hungry, which is one of the worst sensations in life.
She next took on four papers that had been rapidly published early in 2020, two of them in Nature, describing viruses in pangolins—endangered scale-covered mammals sometimes eaten as delicacies in China—that shared similarities to SARS-CoV-2.
They called it a conspiracy theory. But Alina Chan tweeted life into the idea that the virus came from a lab. | Antonio Regalado | June 25, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThe latter work’s delicacy, typical of Yamaguchi’s style, is infused here with new urgency.
In the galleries: Images focus on the future of the planet | Mark Jenkins | May 28, 2021 | Washington PostAt the time, the island had not yet been named after the delicacy, and went by the decidedly less fantastical Twickenham Ait.
C, lastly, I just think [Perritaz] has a natural taste for purity, delicacy, and ethereal balance.
His hilarious parody-fable, “A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig,” traces the supposed genesis of that culinary delicacy.
Phillip Lopate’s Book Bag: The Essay Tradition | Phillip Lopate | February 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn their scenes, there is delicacy, there is love, and there is hope.
‘Downton Abbey’ Season 3: Julian Fellowes, Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, and More | Jace Lacob | January 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSt. Peter Damian damned her for “excessive delicacy” in preferring such a rarefied implement to her God-given hands.
The Strange Way We Eat: Bee Wilson’s ‘Consider the Fork’ | Bee Wilson | October 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTFlowers, fruits, and insects were her favorite subjects, and were painted with rare delicacy.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementI think that he had more virtuosity, and yet more delicacy of feeling, than either Rubinstein or Blow.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayThe officer, with less delicacy of attention to the supposed slumbers of an invalid, followed him.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterMany of these pipes are sculptured from the most obdurate stones and display great delicacy of workmanship.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.He evidently avoided taking a share in the discussion of his Transatlantic career, probably from delicacy to his English auditor.
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