Sentence examples for a fragile surface from inspiring English sources

And as always there is the sense that Russian civilization is but a fragile surface beneath which brew shadowy and ineluctable forces of history, ready to erupt at any moment and bring with them chaos.

A painting with a fragile surface (like those of artist Günther Umberg, who uses layers of pigment) will be tucked into carefully constructed trapezoidal stacks of hard foam so its surface 'floats'floats

If you're working on a fragile surface (like, for example, a fine wooden tabletop), be sure not to damage your surface with an abrasive rag or sponge.

Chris Burden's five-ton sculpture "Medusa's Head," which just came down at the Museum of Modern Art, is a gigantic orb whose fragile surface is crisscrossed with toy locomotive tracks that wind through intricate rock-encrusted tunnels.

What results is a fragile matte surface from which paint gradually falls away.

As sharp instruments penetrated the fragile surface of her eyelids, reshaping them from a single lid to form a creased, double lid, Weijue Wang remembers likening the sensation to someone felting on her skin.

Rather than just blasting the eye and letting its fragile surface slowly heal, surgeons began slicing into the cornea, peeling back a layer, using the laser and then replacing the flap to act as a bandage.

The method does not touch the fragile surface of the object or cause any detectable alteration, which is essential when dealing with cultural heritage objects.

It is protected on either side by several polymer sheets, and conservators carefully wind the work onto the device when preparing it for storage to avoid creating wrinkles that could expose its fragile surface to oxygen.

The level of care is evident in Hoxton (2000), which is muted in colour and somehow evokes the fragile surface of porcelain in paint, and Christina With Green Necklace (2000), which is obviously indebted to Richter.

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