John Burroughs

Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.

American Author

Jodie Comer

I feel particularly passionate about being a part of 'Rillington Place' because I've never had a job where I've felt so much responsibility and I've had to handle something with so much delicacy, because this story and these people were real.

English Actress

Jason Fried

Meetings should be great - they're opportunities for a group of people sitting together around a table to directly communicate. That should be a good thing. And it is, but only if treated as a rare delicacy.

American Businessman

Jane Austen

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

British Writer

Lindsay Duncan

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

Scottish Actress

Marie Corelli

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

British Novelist

Gustav Mahler

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

Austrian Composer

Leonor Varela

I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled.

Chilean Actress

Elton Gallegly

Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

American Politician

James Broughton

American Director

What's a delicacy in one culture may be ordinary or even undesirable in another.

Cultural Variance

Describing food as a delicacy usually implies it's a treat or esteemed.

Positive Connotation

Delicacies are often rare, exotic, or require effort to prepare.

Rare or Exotic

Delicacy can describe intangible qualities, not just physical objects.

Metaphorical Use

Delicacy can refer to the intricate and refined nature of something.

Beyond Fragility

Use delicacy when discussing something that must be treated with care and thought.

Context Sensitivity

Delicacy implies that a situation has layers and complexities needing careful approach.

Nuanced Situations

Expressing feelings or tough truths often requires delicacy.

Emotional Tact

Use in contexts where sensitivity and discretion are paramount.

Sensitive Matters

Delicacy can refer to a person's fragile health or sensitive condition.

Health and Well-being

It can describe someone's emotional vulnerability or need for gentle treatment.

Personal Sensitivities

 Soon it was popping up in markets all over the world and is now a delicacy. Unfortunately, these deep water fish don't reproduce until they're at least ten years old, making them extremely vulnerable to overfishing when the young are caught before they've had the chance to spawn. Consumer taste and prices can also have harmful effects.

Will the ocean ever run...

 but otherwise you survive on meat, that's all. And so it means, you're the hunter, but you're the butcher. Everybody, all the hunters they know how to butcher their meat. That's how you survive, traditionally in the Arctic. That's how they have been doing that and surviving for thousands of years. One delicacy that they all love

We Are What We Eat:...

 Delighted by his invention, Frank begins making the frozen treat for friends, and as he grows older, begins selling them as Eppsicles, a contraction of his last name and the word icicle. It is rumored that later, Frank's own kids dubbed the icy delicacy Pop's 'cicle.

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 from stored cereal grains. This beer was available to all social classes, and workers even received it in their daily rations. They also made wine, but because the climate wasn’t ideal for growing grapes, it was a rare and expensive delicacy.

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 how would you make it without the tomatoes of the New World? No, instead, you would be served probably a lot of porridge, some vegetable -- mostly cabbage -- some cheese, and maybe if you're lucky, the absolute delicacy of that time --

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 high praise with his power to transform the taboo into the tantalizing chef Cho may win new converts to this ancient delicacy diners who may seek it out not just for its romantic and medicinal effects but also for its taste

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 That's the right texture. Can you cut that, please? Is this a joke? Oh my lord. Oh my god. It's like putty. Why is this so-- a special rare delicacy when it stinks? You should not think about the smell.

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 delicacy and the word is still used with the sound post of a violin the small peg hidden right underneath the bridge which transmits the vibration of the strings to the body of the instrument the soul

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 People in developed countries often take it for granted that they can eat whatever delicacy they want from anywhere in the world.