delicado
gentle ; sensitive ; tricky ; delicate ; ticklish ; awkward ; choosy ; touchy ; frail ; tender ; dainty ; lissom(e) ; fragile ; fussy ; picky .
Melanie Stanton broke into a gentle laugh as she recalled him executing a shuffling fandango and announcing mischievously, 'Women in the SLA, get ready, here I come!'.
Numerous different models are available, ranging from models where communication is via a heat sensitive screen, through to terminals linked to an outside computer by a telephone line.
Bertrand Russell has written a great deal of sense about the tricky problem of individual liberty and achievement and its relationship to government control.
Despite the incompetence of most eighteenth-century block-makers, woodcuts never quite disappeared, and they returned to favour in the delicate form called 'wood-engraving' at the end of the hand-press period.
The vast majority of management problems, even those which seem at first glance to be wholly planning or organizing or controlling problems, usually turn out to be bristling with ticklish human relations problems.
Access is impaired by archaic, awkward, or simply strange headings that most normal persons would never look for on their first try.
I became a hungry reader who was not choosy at all about the food.
Censorship is a touchy subject with prison librarians.
Previous research has demonstrated that frail elderly living in subsidized high-rise apartments have greater unmet needs than elderly who reside in traditional community housing.
A single drawing can have a highly emotional impact and can be effective as either a heavy, bold statement or a tender reminder.
They then went to a rather dainty little Italian restaurant where they ate a scrumptious meal and drank a bottle of wine.
She is not just lissome and beautiful, but also cultured, artful, expressive, and energetic.
The material which carries the message is fragile.
Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.
If by chance she gets close to a boy that she likes she suddenly get very picky and think of all his negative points.
asunto delicado
sore subject
sore spot
sore point
sensitive issue
hot potato
prickly subject
thorny subject
This probably has more to do with that and the fact that the movie is about Hitler, which is still a sore subject in Germany.
Hence comparison is known to be a sore spot for men because it challenges their ego and masculinity.
The sore points in most marriages are money, sex and children.
The hectic pace of developments in IT applications has raised many sensitive issues for educators.
When you're handed a hot potato such as the sickly economy, as is the case with President Obama, the responsible solution is to let it cool down.
Labor rights are still a prickly subject in Wisconsin.
Sex education in schools has always been a thorny subject.
pregunta delicada
awkward question
The press spokesman 'ominously warned' Americans to 'watch what they say,' which amounted to telling citizens 'to accept the administration's version of events, not ask awkward questions'.
ser muy delicado con la comida
be a picky eater
You shouldn't cook special meals just for a picky eater, but do include something he or she likes in every meal.
ser muy delicado para comer
be a picky eater
be a fussy eater
You shouldn't cook special meals just for a picky eater, but do include something he or she likes in every meal.
Good news is that my dinner was a class act, and they even got the steak perfect, which is a feat for such a fussy eater like me.
tejido muy delicado
gossamer
Its gossamer parts, the precise location and alignment involved in its construction, would have occupied a master craftsman of the guild for months.
tema delicado
sore subject
sore spot
sore point
sensitive issue
hot potato
prickly subject
thorny subject
This probably has more to do with that and the fact that the movie is about Hitler, which is still a sore subject in Germany.
Hence comparison is known to be a sore spot for men because it challenges their ego and masculinity.
The sore points in most marriages are money, sex and children.
The hectic pace of developments in IT applications has raised many sensitive issues for educators.
When you're handed a hot potato such as the sickly economy, as is the case with President Obama, the responsible solution is to let it cool down.
Labor rights are still a prickly subject in Wisconsin.
Sex education in schools has always been a thorny subject.
