But one pitcher has resisted the trend toward fragility.
Her fierceness underpinned by an affecting fragility, she slipped toward and away from a powerful floor fan, lashed out into gorgeous aerial kicks or curled into a tight ball.
Coupled with these advances has been a move toward fragility analysis techniques to uncouple the hazard (e.g., seismic, wind) from the structural system response, thereby enabling more efficient probabilistic analysis and inference.
We moreover observed strong tendencies toward sleep stability in conjunction with low-frequency power (including slow-wave, delta, and theta activity) and toward fragility in conjunction with high-frequency power (beta activity).
The mechanisms that mediate this relationship may include the presence of chronic inflammation-induced decrease of muscle strength, sarcopenia, or renal osteodystrophy with bony fragility and a tendency toward fracture [ 23, 24].
Lady Macbeth suppresses her instincts toward compassion, motherhood, and fragility — associated with femininity — in favour of ambition, ruthlessness, and the singleminded pursuit of power.
But there was something else, as performing Chubbuck's very public last act became a kind of exorcism, or at least a point of finality, but also highlighted the fragility and empathy that Hall felt toward the character and the real person she was portraying.
He grabbed the ball and gazelled toward the goal, his speed belying his fragility.
When I walk toward the lake, I understand Tibet's environmental fragility — crunching under my feet, the ground is little more than a thin veneer of grass over cold hard tundra.
You're repelled by swarthy southern Europeans, post-Hiroshima western guilt, and being reminded of your own fragility, qua human being, and of our species' inexorable march toward oblivion.
