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
Even when he’s playing the tenor saxophone, his main instrument, Mr. Speed’s muted warble bears the delicateness of a clarinet.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2017
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
Day and night, in spite of her own delicateness, Elsa has nursed and cared for the child, holding her tender mother-hand protectingly before the little light which every breath of air threatened to extinguish.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip
