Lately his subject matter has been prisons or dungeons, and his large Polaroid of a dungeon is both forbidding and brittle-looking.
With the increasingly brittle Alex Rodriguez looking more like an eventual designated hitter, could Jeter be headed there, too?
But the rest of the spine is more brittle: Gilberto looked past it for Arsenal a couple of seasons back, so can he really keep it together if Xavi and co start pinging passes around him?
I saw an elderly tuberculosis patient whose brittle body looked as if it could shatter into a million pieces.
There are harsh images of Hillary, looking brittle in dark glasses, to go with the harsh words.
Supposedly, it was a cheerier occasion, and there was a brightness to Catherine that has now been overcast by her fug of grief; yet even then the mood was brittle, with Virginia looking at the happy couple and declaring, "You seem cripplingly codependent".
The Times's Giles Whitell was the most outspoken reviewer of Jodi Kantor's "laboriously researched and thoughtfully written" The Obamas: the portrait it paints of the US president and his wife "is unflattering almost to the point of being toxic … President Obama emerges from the Kantor treatment looking brittle, introspective, moody, out of touch and naive.
If the spline is looking brittle or dry, replace it with a new one.
Smoking reduces blood flow to the scalp, causing hair to turn brittle and dull looking.
"You getting enough sun?" "Your bones are looking pretty brittle, you sure you can stand up properly?" "Oi, dickhead, why don't you and your bow legs fuck off and find some vitamin D?" Ah, limitless nostalgia... Smallpox.
