Plagued by physical weakness and by intimations of mortality, he is vulnerable and reflective, prey to surges of fragile feeling: "A minute later, he was alone, in the kitchen, trying not to succumb to an unexpected flood of emotion, with trembling hands spooning coffee into the percolator".
And so into work I went ― feeling fragile, feeling a little bit less than capable, and feeling ashamed and anxious for having requested the time off that I thought would have been accepted in the first place.
"I wanted to create a biological optical filter thin as bubbles in order to maximise the transparency and to give a fragile ethereal feeling to the sculptural piece," he explained to The Creators Project. .
It's the put-on, the aforementioned cackle, that clears the space for fragile feeling to thrive.
Boundaries are necessary to protect fragile feelings and create a consistency that both you and your ex can count on.
Weather becomes a way of understand our transient and fragile feelings in David Shearings interactive public installation.
But the selection of a new showcase for the exquisite and ephemeral orchid has bruised the already fragile feelings of those at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center, home of the show for the last 11 years.
So, you know how it is: there are people you have to invite, like the relatives you've always disliked, but whose fragile feelings you don't want to trample over.
That is one of the things that I see in my culture that makes me very angry". "So all these fragile feelings of imitation, of not having, of being angry with your own country, with the west, with everything" - he has elsewhere called these feelings simply "shame" - "I think that the whole non-western world is living these damning personal dilemmas.
