Sentence examples for fragile manner from inspiring English sources

Mara, so glacially spiky in David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, retains some of that nervous intensity in Alice's alert, fragile manner; it's an intelligent, magnetic performance.

Each glass sheet shuddered slightly as it was turned this way and that, in the impossibly fragile manner of airborne soap bubbles, and my own arms kept going out toward it, as if to save the sheet from crashing to the floor — but, of course, no glass crashed.

As for boxing being boring, Ms. Oates responded, "Muhammad Ali boring?" And as for the judge not liking to read about dying people, Ms. Oates, whose genteel and even fragile manner belies the ferocity of her intellect, responded, "Like King Lear?" Mr. Posner said three death scenes in Tolstoy's "War and Peace" satisfy his interest in death and literature.

He looked fragile, but his manner was jaunty when he cast his ballot in Monastir.

Walpole's fragile, oddly absent manner can't quite match Harris's evil-eyed intensity when it comes to holding the attention, but there's an arresting turn by another newcomer, Oliver Kennedy, as a defiantly camp co-worker.

Back for the New York summer, Angelakos seems a stronger character than the disorientated, fragile mind responsible for Manners' lyrics.

Teo Ser Luck, the minister of state in charge of such matters, is in regular touch with entrepreneurs and investors, and the government recently decided to give over another building near Block 71 to startups.But ecosystems are more fragile than their leaders' confident manner suggests.

To assess whether DNA methylation affects fragile site expression in a manner similar to histone acetylation, we treated Blin and Molt-4 cells with 5-Aza, an inhibitor of DNA methylation, and examined the frequency of chromosomal breaks at CFSs.

As a putative venom component, it may stimulate BK B2 receptors (B2Rs) in a distinct manner relative to the fragile mammalian agonist BK.

Mr. Moi said the bombing demonstrated "in a most crude and violent manner that peace is a fragile entity that should not be taken for granted".

Accordingly, it will be true rather than false that if Suzy had not thrown her rock, then the actual bottle shattering, taken as a fragile event with an essential time and manner of occurrence, would not have occurred.