delicateness
Example Sentences
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A memo stated that Secret Service officials “explained the delicateness of the situation, in terms of potential damage in the trust of our protectees” to the agent.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
Cornell turns soulful when he tackles Lorraine Ellison’s “Stay With Me Baby,” letting his voice soar by replacing the delicateness of the original with a powerful neediness.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2020
Seen across the span of SundanceNow’s retrospective, it’s an awkward delicateness that grows into a principle.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2013
Compared with Nabisco and Keebler, both of which had been around for decades by the time Pepperidge Farm’s new line debuted, Rudkin’s cookies exuded an air of European sophistication and delicateness.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2012
At one moment he was dismissing the idea of such delicateness, such super-refined super-sensitiveness being taken with a man of his imperfect bringing-up and humble origin.
From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by Phillips, David Graham
