All 3 Uses of
delicacy
in
The Hunger Games
- All year, the Capitol will show the winning district gifts of grain and oil and even delicacies like sugar while the rest of us battle starvation.
p. 19.4 *delicacies = things that are rare or expensive
- Not to model flashy costumes and eat delicacies.
p. 80.3delicacies = rare and expensive types of foods
- I have dinner that night in my room, ordering an outrageous number of delicacies, eating myself sick, and then taking out my anger at Haymitch, at the Hunger Games, at every living being in the Capitol by smashing dishes around my room.
p. 118.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(delicacy as in: eat the delicacy) something that is rare or expensive -- usually a prized food
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(2)
(delicacy as in: discuss with delicacy) care and gentleness -- especially speaking or acting with sensitivity and tact
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(3)
(delicacy as in: offend her delicacy) the quality of being easily hurt or damaged
(often referring to the fragility of someone's emotional well being when it is easily distressed by something that is offensive or disturbing) -
(4)
(delicacy as in: delicacy of the brushwork) pleasant subtlety or fineness