Delacroix used the traditional genre of flower painting throughout his career to examine form and colour, and both his small studies of delicate irises and jasmine as well as large oil paintings of carefully composed floral still lives are on show.

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In a dancer there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

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During the course of the story, Kerbouchard sees the Islamic world at its peak, Byzantine in decline, and the small, delicate green shoots of intellectual ferment developing in Paris.

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The new and delicate challenge: Attracting small fries willing to pay a small monthly charge (or at least able to expense without approval) while not cannibalizing Zoom's high-end customer base.

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Southern Vietnamese live large compared with the agriculturally poor central Vietnamese who eat delicate, small servings, and the hard-core traditionalists in the north who adore pure flavors and eschew the sweetness and extravagant embellishment characteristic of the south.

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