Sentence examples for is rather fragile from inspiring English sources

The test (internal skeleton) is rather fragile with four porous spaces, or petaloids.

Far from being the Napoleonic tyrant of Fleet St oligarch imaginings, the EU is rather fragile.

We've come to agree that the human mind is rather fragile and that it is best to consider many emotional experiences and mental states as illnesses that require professional intervention.

"The Thai economy is rather fragile and is still recovering from the impact of the political turmoil that ended following a military coup that was staged in May 2014," Chan said.

It should be noted beforehand that the theme on a chemical bond is rather fragile and subtle (see, e.g., Introduction in [39] and references therein).

Although the stem is initially loosely stuffed with cottony hyphae, it eventually becomes hollow in maturity; overall, the mushroom is rather fragile.

The Watkins prints are "rather fragile creatures but over all in quite good shape," Ms. Paterson of Christie's said.

Optical rotations are known to be rather fragile, being sensitive to small variations in conformation and solvation, but the electronic circular dichroism spectrum is regarded as rather more robust.

Accordingly, the theoretical bases of present methodologies are rather fragile.

Despite their strength as "pumping units" adult cardiomyocytes are rather fragile and a good quality of cells can only be obtained when the heart is perfused on a Langendorff apparatus and collagenase disrupts the extracellular matrix, thus releasing rod-shaped cardiomyocytes [ 38].

Some artificial plants can be rather delicate and be made of fragile material.