All 11 Uses of
delicacy
in
Anna Karenina
- Levin was grateful to him for his delicacy and was very glad of his visitor.†
Part 2
- What kind of bird may it be, pray?" added Ryabinin, looking contemptuously at the snipe: "a great delicacy, I suppose."†
Part 2
- It was just for this fineness of perception, for this delicacy, that Darya Alexandrovna liked Levin.†
Part 3
- How could a woman of any intelligence, of any delicacy, put her sister in such a humiliating position!†
Part 3
- The men stood round the strong-smelling spirits and salt delicacies, and the discussion of the Russification of Poland between Koznishev, Karenin, and Pestsov died down in anticipation of dinner.†
Part 4 *
- It seemed to Levin that they knew all about it already and sympathized with him, saying nothing merely from delicacy.†
Part 4
- What was extraordinary was that everyone not only liked him, but even people previously unsympathetic, cold, and callous, were enthusiastic over him, gave way to him in everything, treated his feeling with tenderness and delicacy, and shared his conviction that he was the happiest man in the world because his betrothed was beyond perfection.†
Part 4
- The elegant, whiskered manservant, who used to be continually complaining to his acquaintances of the delicacy of his nerves, was so panic-stricken on seeing his master lying on the floor, that he left him losing blood while he ran for assistance.†
Part 4
- Then a small gentleman, very young-looking but very malignant, began to say that it would probably be agreeable to the marshal of the province to give an account of his expenditures of the public moneys, and that the misplaced delicacy of the members of the committee was depriving him of this moral satisfaction.†
Part 6
- One would have thought that out of two dozen delicacies one might find something to one's taste, but Stepan Arkadyevitch asked for something special, and one of the liveried waiters standing by immediately brought what was required.†
Part 7
- "I don't expect you to understand me, my feelings, as anyone who loved me might, but simple delicacy I did expect," she said.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(delicacy as in: eat the delicacy) something that is rare or expensive -- usually a prized food