Sentence examples for fragilely from inspiring English sources

Earlier that morning, Gregory Evelyn, an almost fragilely small sixteen-year-old junior, with whom I had taken swimming class, had shot a sophomore named Stanley Pacheco, following what was said to have been a dispute over a girl.

Washburn, after all, is a town of "fragilely rigid postwar traditions," where a woman wearing a backless black dress to a party offends "communal decorum" because all the other women are in bows and plaid taffeta; so it wouldn't take much to bring social retribution.

Fitzgerald says: "We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end.

Now, as she emerged from prison - poised, emaciated and fragilely beautiful - she had acquired a new glamour.

If you don't feel fragilely alive afterward, you weren't listening.

(Yes. A croissant should leave you licking your fingers. It is butter fragilely encased in flour).

With Ms. Moore's body as thin as Calista Flockhart's and her face almost as taut, this older Mary does not seem youthful so much as fragilely in control.