Sentence examples for fragile about from inspiring English sources

They also have something beautifully fragile about them.

"There was something childlike, delicate, fragile about the nickname Jon-Jon".

There is something very fragile about all this neo-conceptualism, which can only exist within a finely tuned curatorial apparatus.

Presumably first-time writer-director Virginia Gilbert (daughter of Brian Gilbert, Wilde) was aiming to make something oblique and fragile about Brits abroad, in the style of Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago).

Amid all the familiar moments connected to the Yankees' advancement yesterday, with all the advantages of home the Yankees possess for the championship series, there is still something fragile about this team.

There was also something vulnerable, even fragile, about him that I responded to — a sense that he had fought hard to get where he was, and that success hadn't calcified him but, on the contrary, made him all the more modest about himself, and generous about other people's travails.

Somalia remains fragile with about 3.8 million people in need of life-saving assistance, out of a population of 9.5 million, and 1.4 million people internally displaced.

Mitchum's Eddie has a nondescript, regular-tough-guy demeanor, but there's also something fragile, almost delicate, about his face.

To obtain the images, Dr. Kuhn and his colleagues at Purdue chilled the fragile virus to about minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit in liquid ethane, a hydrocarbon, then bombarded it with high-energy electrons.

The president's high job-approval ratings have a fragile look about them.

It has always struck me as poised uneasily between realism and expressionism and in danger of seeming a fragile anecdote about the frustrated hopes of a shy recluse.