Sentence examples for fragile face from inspiring English sources

"Strip Teaser and Dog, Paris" (1962) shows a young woman with long blond hair and a fragile face sitting in a chair and hugging a large poodle, which stands on its hind legs and looks quietly sympathetic.

And Ian and Mary might look like the perfect 70s couple – she barefoot in cheesecloth, Madonna hair drooping over a pale and fragile face; he with long, curly tresses, legs widely spread in tight denim – but how long have they got?

He had a gift for lingering on a ferocious or fragile face, and having us wonder what will happen next.

"Flood Insurance, Already Fragile, Faces New Stress" (front page, Nov. 13) is correct in its analysis of the federal government's National Flood Insurance Program.

But this government is already so fragile, facing pressure on many fronts, the PM still reeling from the election result only a week ago.

All of the fragile five face elections in 2014, making populism a risk.

The North Korean government has called on its people to wage an "all-out battle" against a record heatwave as the country's already fragile crops face drought and the authorities struggle to respond.

These fragile ecosystems face serious threats from climate change, ocean acidification, destructive and unsustainable fishing practices, and water-polluting land-use activities2, 3. Metapopulation connectivity, the exchange of individuals and genes among geographically separated sub-populations, is a key process for maintaining biodiversity and resilience in coral reef ecosystems4.

And I say, without maternal excess, that they are too young, too fragile, to face the burden of being considered adults by a legal system that does not correspond to international norms.

Even with all that labor, the fragile reality facing Puerto Ricans hits you in the face.

Such empires often turn out to be amazingly fragile when faced by intelligent idealists.