Mr. Edwards handles this sequence with less tact than gingerliness.

Finally, Dr. Levine laid down a frayed volume with almost indescribable gingerliness.

For the past 10 years he has lived with his family in New York, and a reader senses in his rather elaborate approach a gingerliness about going back.

Artaq was saddled and shaking his head with impatience, and Allanon mounted the black at once, a gingerliness in his movements suggesting that his wounds were not yet fully healed.

Ever since their confrontation before the board of trustees over his diversion of budgeted pathology department funds to the cardiac surgical program, Reese had dealt with her with the gingerliness of an apprentice handling high explosives.