Sentence examples for as a fragile object from inspiring English sources

He is, first and foremost, convincingly old, treating his body as a fragile object that demands vigilant care.

A fragile object is an object likely to get damaged or to break with time.

Other artists such as Mickalene Thomas create a less fragile object if only to communicate the point that permanent damage has already occurred.

Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, by contrast, is a "young, fragile object".

As many pollutants are deposited on any available surface in contact with the indoor air, the aim is to collect the airborne and easily dissolved species; specifically not to take samples from a potentially fragile object, but rather the materials in the surroundings of the object subjected to the same influence of the indoor air as the object itself.

And paradoxically, it is up here that a sense of paintings as fragile objects threatened by time comes through.

At the same school, Cybulski noted another problem: the teachers treated the Foldscopes as precious, fragile objects, collecting them from students after each classroom use — the opposite of what he and Prakash had intended.

So while the Stoics advised that one can prepare oneself for death and bereavement by imagining our children and wives as fragile objects, Montaigne insists: "No wisdom is so highly formed as to be able to imagine a cause of grief so vivid and so complete that it will not be increased by the actual presence, when the eyes and ears have a share in it".

But now Egypt is demanding that the fragile object, perched alone in a domed room that overlooks the length of the museum, be returned home.

Pro tip: this technique works for any flat, fragile object.

Instead, the city has been rediscovered as a fragile community.