He often ate in a delicate manner.

They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.

It's a very delicate situation,

I couldn't afford to get delicate with it.

Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful.

True strength is delicate.