Sentence examples for brittle line from inspiring English sources

For the optional coconut brittle: Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

A brittle line separates a great grudge match from a ludicrous donnybrook.

Ms. Peters invests each brittle line with a full measure of feeling without losing the arc of the music or any of the delicate irony in the lyrics.

It's pleasingly diverse, too, catering to all manner of ages and sexualities rather than the brittle line-up of Jane Norman mannequins and arseholes that Take Me Out unflinchingly adheres to.

It calls up shallow characters uttering brittle lines about frivolous affairs.

minimalist drawings: Brittle lines intersect tentatively; geometric.

It remains to be determined whether this six-rowed allele was derived from extinct two-rowed cultivated barley or it is directly derived from wild barley and then outcrossing with non-brittle lines resulted in six-rowed cultivars with the vrs1.a1 allele.

His portrait of Charles VII (c. 1447; Louvre, Paris), though a panel painting, displays the use of brittle, incisive line characteristic of miniature painting.

(In "I'll Still Kill," a mesmerizing song based on a brittle keyboard line, Akon sings the menacing refrain. No one does ominous falsetto R&B better than Akon; come to think of it, no one else does it at all).

After all the years of defensive stringency, it is incongruous to witness so brittle a line-up.

There was an unyielding quality to Sallinen's music, too, with its tolling chords and brittle melodic lines.