All 8 Uses of

delicacy
in
The Magic Mountain

His relatives had sent him these homey delicacies to help him build up some strength.†
Chpt 4.3

delicacies = things that are rare or expensive -- usually prized foods

Oh, the sweet inner surfaces of the elbow and the hollow of the knee, with their abundance of organic delicacies beneath the padding of flesh!†
Chpt 5.9 *

One must eat, eat properly, in order to give life's demands their due, he informed them, and then ordered refreshments for everyone: a selection of meats and cold cuts, tongue, goose breast, and roast beef, sausages and ham—plates piled with delicacies and garnished with little balls of butter, radishes, and parsley until they resembled showy flowerbeds.†
Chpt 7.3

"Behold the hour is at hand—" And he told them to deal him a card, set a horn-rimmed pince-nez on his nose, its high bridge jutting up into his brow, and ordered champagne: three bottles of Mumm and Co., Cordon rouge, tres sec; plus petits fours—luscious cone-shaped little delicacies, tenderest pastries glazed with colored sugar and marbled with chocolate or pistachio creams, each presented on a paper doily with a lacy trim.†
Chpt 7.3

Given his natural tact and delicacy, Hans Castorp seemed not to want to think of it until the very last moment.†
Chpt 4.10 *

The poetic adolescent's delicacy only served to spur him to take the opposite course, to find occasion for paying frequent visits to unhappy Frau von Mallinckrodt and for performing little nursing services that required no special training.†
Chpt 5.8

But, as noted, all this delicacy seemed futile now, since his actions had been robbed of their spontaneity and thus of any value.†
Chpt 7.2

Or, as Herr Settembrini would have expressed it with belletristic delicacy, what a "wag"—reckless, even brazen, when dealing with personalities, but just as clever at extricating himself when he must.†
Chpt 7.3

Definitions:

(1) (delicacy as in: eat the delicacy)
something that is rare or expensive -- usually a prized food
(2) (delicacy as in: discuss with delicacy)
care and gentleness -- especially speaking or acting with sensitivity and tact
(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