(Long, fragile stems snap more easily in downpours).
The golfer, who is suing the PGA Tour to let him ride a golf cart, limps badly, his atrophied right leg hypersensitive to the touch and so fragile it could snap on an errant step.
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Even the head of the Daisy party, Francesco Rutelli, was bold enough last month to snap the fragile chain of leftist unity and pick a fight with the professor.
So when fragile pieces of metal snap, when delicate spring hinges malfunction, or when the whole thing gets run over by a car, opticians turn to these craftsmen.
The second problem is that the 19th-century artwork is irreplaceable, is awkwardly shaped and has about a zillion fragile protuberances that could snap off under just a small amount of misapplied pressure.
Do not hang on branches that are fragile or these may snap off (losing your ornament in the process).
"Oh," I say, and keep staring into her eyes with mounting desperation, wondering if maybe I've snapped some fragile synapse in my brain from too much driving; the final breakdown of road madness, right here in Indianapolis.
The slump was if anything sharper and quicker because of the impact of globalisation - but then again the impact of stimulus was also more dramatic: the modern economy is, like a highly trained athlete, simultaneously fragile and robust: it snaps a ligament but responds well in the oxygen tent.
It took about an hour to get each kid bundled up enough to go outside and then when they did, they wiped out on the ice and snapped their fragile bones.
It's a tumbling wisteria vine of a beat, translucent xylophone blooms winding around a delicate twig of bass so fragile you worry it might snap off in a strong breeze.
