"The way he [Erdoğan] speaks: he makes them [women] fragile with his messages, whether subliminal or explicit.
To that end, Mr Rafsanjani helped ensure the eclipse of Ayatollah Hosein Ali Montazeri, who had been Khomeini's heir apparent and who now, a fragile octogenarian, sends messages in support of Mr Mousavi's cause.
But shadow chancellor Alan Johnson, for Labour, called the review a "reckless gamble with people's livelihoods" which risked "stifling the fragile recovery" - a message echoed by the SNP, despite smaller than expected cuts in Scotland.
So if you work at, say, UPS, you scan a box coming in, that info is transmitted wirelessly to your warehouse servers, and then you print another barcode or "FRAGILE" or some other message onto the package itself, all in the blink of an eye.
There were mixed reactions in Greece, with the fragile coalition government issuing cautious messages of solidarity with the Cypriot government and the president, who has significant influence but limited executive powers, criticizing the European Union for its tough treatment of Nicosia.
Most people have $20,000!" Our public health situation is so fragile that bland toothless nutrition messaging will not do the trick.
Don't give anything less than a year or, in our fragile state, we may get the wrong message.
And we can protect them and we must remember these things are fragile," then it's a more empowering message.
But it is too fragile a cinematic vehicle for the portentous messages it is supposed to deliver.
