Sentence examples for fragile forms from inspiring English sources

Even rather fragile forms, such as mosquitoes and butterflies, survive in sheltered, relatively dry places out of doors.

The simplest stalactite form, therefore, is a thin-walled stone straw, and these fragile forms may reach lengths of 0.5 m (20 inches) or more where air currents have not seriously disturbed the growth.

Looking at the cut-outs now, we are apt to forget how they looked before the positions of his shapes were finally mapped and traced, and before these floating, fragile forms were fixed and flattened to large paper sheets that were then laid down on canvas, and contained once again by a rectangle and a frame.

Given the already fragile forms of democratic representation and accountability in the NHS, it is difficult to see how the "new democratic way of exercising the power of the people" that he recommends can be effectively applied, short of a referendum.

After all, Mr. McCarthy's inflatable "Balloon Dog," the 80-feet-tall hot-water-bottle-red mascot that towered over last weekend's Frieze New York art fair on Randalls Island, all but thumbed its nose at Mr. Koons's own balloon dog sculptures, those sleeker, more fragile forms made of stainless steel with transparent color coating.

More fragile forms of collagen can make you more susceptible to sun damage, and in turn, wrinkles.

Occasionally, an artist manages to capture the poignancy of a beautiful garment displayed on a fragile form.

One of the most interesting discoveries of neuroscience of the last 20 years is that when you acquire memories, they're stored in temporary, fragile form, like cement.

That error might have been considered evidence of fragile form, an extension of high-profile traumas at Euro 2016, though it was probably more reflective of recent upheaval.

I think that Merivel existed only in fragile form before I read the Diaries and that the composites of his personality (his self-indulgence, his ability to see the hilarious side of every situation, and the way he is constantly torn between hard work and sloth) were only properly assembled afterwards.

Which parent has not watched anxiously over a sleeping son or daughter, their small, fragile form tucked up in the bedclothes, and not fought to suppress the awful imagining of "what if?" Which child has not looked at a mother and father and imagined themselves as an orphan, alone and bereft in a world full of hostile strangers?