She also called for substantial injections of public and private capital into dangerously frail European banks.
And then you found a way to inject that essence into a frail little leaf, no longer than a blade of grass.
Panting, he bent over and grabbed a handful of snow, shaped it into a frail snowball, and threw it at the house.
Davies, on the other hand, was manufactured into a delicate heroine by her man and she was dependent on him, since he had turned her into this frail, wispy star.
One overwrought young girl burst through security lines on Saturday night and hurled herself into the frail pope's arms as if he were a pop star, and he gently patted her head as she wept on his shoulder.
Ms. Hajewska-Krzysztofik too seems to have withered into a frail simulacrum of a human being, a pile of bones and skin only held together by the frayed finery she insists on wearing.
The episodes transformed the once-independent man, who used to work as a chauffeur, into a frail person who was plagued by confusion and was in need of constant help.
The opening novella, "Banishment", sees a woman narrator hooking up with an elderly architect, both of them going into this frail and damaged relationship with eyes wide open, the sense of impending catastrophe is all pervasive.
