Like the faint hint of garlic after an Italian meal, traces of a fragile isotope have hinted at the diet of stars.
Others worried that the recovery was too fragile to permit any hint of austerity.
Jones, spoilt by fame, snagged by the egos of Richards, Jagger and Oldham, victimised by the News of the World, returns to his little boy state, now with a hint of fragile exotic flower.
In a sign that the government expects the public finances to continue to be fragile, the chancellor also hinted that costly pledges, including the "triple-lock" on pensions, would have to be reviewed before the Conservatives draw up their manifesto for the next general election.
The veto-proof majority by which the bill was passed is fragile, and Bloomberg has hinted he might be able to convince some supporters of the bill to change their minds, allowing him to successfully veto.
But the statement also hinted at the fragile nature of the transfer in achieving a peaceful transition.
Nick Clegg, speaking at the CBI conference in Birmingham yesterday, hinted at the fragile state of the public finances by saying "the nascent recovery is at a very delicate stage".
So, really the panicked selling of stocks and bonds, and recent rise in interest rates are a sign that economic growth is still fragile, so that even a hint of credit tightening will depress markets.
It proved hard to hunt down in practice, however, because such "superposition" is a fragile phenomenon, easily lost upon any hint of disruption.
