With her papery skin and fragile, aging beauty, Ms. Lisi is quite moving as a woman who gives her lover a mother's unconditional love, though he was the tutor of her children, not her son.
At the young and, thanks to her upbringing, less-than-fragile age of 18, Adzem boarded a plane to start a new life in New York City.
Some of its growth reflects changes in the population: we are growing older and becoming fragile with age.
Zenaida Yanowsky was at her versatile best in the title role: revelling in the grandly theatrical body language of the young queen, turbulent and expansive in love, and turning progressively brittle and fragile with age.
The painting collection did not maintain and support Toklas in her fragile old age; in fact, in April , 1961 while she was away at a spa in Italy taking a mud cure for arthritis, it was seized from her apartment.
Slipping into a fragile old age, "she found herself staring at things, simultaneously puzzled by how particular a leaf was and how unbordered and vague she herself was becoming".
Increased access to vaccines and HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention services, has been one of the most important public health successes in the modern age--greatly reducing the number of childhood deaths, especially for those children in the fragile under-five age range.
With advanced age, fragile aromas and flavors can shrivel like dried flowers when exposed to air, leaving behind the husk of the wine.
My hunch is that films of this sort, in addition to bringing a younger demographic into the fold, appeal to the particular anxieties of parents raising children in such a fragile and fearful age.
But these look increasingly like the paroxysm of a dying giant – this is a 20th-century model of food distribution that isn't fit for today - too wasteful, too costly, and as we saw during the fuel blockade, too fragile, for an age in which food security, affordability and frugality will become new watchwords.
