Sentence examples for fragile character from inspiring English sources

For a more fragile character that would have been the end of a glittering though brief career.

It would be easy to exploit her ambition: behind the colourful front she seems to be a rather fragile character.

The outcome of last night's race will contribute to the sense that Powell is a fragile character.

Someone like Noomi [Rapace], she was just like this broken, fragile character, and she was giving it everything and weeping and doing these incredibly detailed things.

JAY WINIK opens his account of the most dramatic month in American history with a brief, throat-clearing disquisition on the fragile character of our constitutional Union.

Depending on the degree of crystallinity, but whatever the nature of the crystalline morphology (spherulitic or oriented crystallites), it is found that the initial fragile character becomes stronger as the degree of crystallinity increases.

Though "tragedy pervades the entire movie and all these tiny, fragile characters," she said, "we are left with some kind of exuberant possibility.

But on the whole these little plays are deeply moving; the laughter and sorrow in each of them come together naturally as our understanding of the fragile characters grows.

Its early print and television ads used the slogan "Earth's first soft drink" and featured the artist R. O. Blechman's lovably fragile characters with large noses and grape-shaped bodies.

Moran's disturbing novel explores the moral climate of post-World War II Europe through a collection of fragile characters, including Anja, a girl from Krakow longing to be invisible after six years as a Nazi informer.

In the figures of Rufus Scott (Another Country) and Leo Proudhammer (Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone) Baldwin created fragile characters shouldering the weight of what he saw as a cruel and oppressive world.