Sentence examples for fragile surface from inspiring English sources

The method does not touch the fragile surface of the object or cause any detectable alteration, which is essential when dealing with cultural heritage objects.

And as always there is the sense that Russian civilization is but a fragile surface beneath which brew shadowy and ineluctable forces of history, ready to erupt at any moment and bring with them chaos.

Rather than just blasting the eye and letting its fragile surface slowly heal, surgeons began slicing into the cornea, peeling back a layer, using the laser and then replacing the flap to act as a bandage.

Chris Burden's five-ton sculpture "Medusa's Head," which just came down at the Museum of Modern Art, is a gigantic orb whose fragile surface is crisscrossed with toy locomotive tracks that wind through intricate rock-encrusted tunnels.

It is protected on either side by several polymer sheets, and conservators carefully wind the work onto the device when preparing it for storage to avoid creating wrinkles that could expose its fragile surface to oxygen.

The level of care is evident in Hoxton (2000), which is muted in colour and somehow evokes the fragile surface of porcelain in paint, and Christina With Green Necklace (2000), which is obviously indebted to Richter.

These are heavy machines on fragile surfaces".

The most difficult pieces to move are oddly shaped solid masses with fragile surfaces.

The researchers have not yet heard some of them at all for fear of damaging their fragile surfaces.

It is a staggering work, leathery and reliclike, with most of Pop Art embedded in its fragile surfaces.

For example, when contacting fragile surfaces the probe stiffness should be low to prevent damage; however, for a more robust probing system the stiffness should be increased.