It's quite a sight to see her move from airily bashing an ingot with a five-kilo hammer to delicately handling the final fragile, translucent leaf.
The cheese was a very good, savoury cheddar with vegetal undertones that interplayed with flavours of a similar type in the wine (which in burgundy, I think, come out as woodruff in the whites, and as a more fragile, tindery leaf smell in the reds).
Maybe Blankie was holding the boy's love hostage; it was certainly capable of this, despite being as thin and as fragile as a leaf skeleton.
It had a crust, fragile like a dry leaf, that led to a moist, downy layer of ground almonds and sugar.
On the platforms, her assistants are handling fragile strips of gold leaf, like glowing Post-it notes; these have been going up and down in value as Whiteread and her team have worked through these tense economic months.
Traces of her "Rupestrian Sculptures" remain, as does a single leaf drawing, a fragile reminder of the artist, in a Havana museum.
The curators cringe at the thought of decades of schoolchildren's feet vibrating like jackhammers on the fragile models, truncating an iris leaf and shaking green chips off a shrubby trefoil.
"It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love," wrote Gian Carlo Menotti of his contribution, "The Old Man's Song," a wisp of fragile color, like a dried leaf.
Both, fossil and extant leaf cuticles are very thin and fragile; the cuticles of the seeds are thick.
When leaf senescence, membrane became fragile and leak.
Xu et al. [40] established a diffusion model with pulse and proved that the pulse migration was beneficial to the balanced development of the white headed leaf monkey in the fragile environment.
