Sentence examples for proves fragile from inspiring English sources

It's easy to mend if you get any tears, so don't worry too much if it proves fragile.

But, though they may be management, they're in the trade, too; their game is to use sex itself to render the girls desperate, glued to their abusive bosses by more than mere fear — a racialized hypermasculinity that proves fragile once Mob-run brothels move in.

Though life ultimately proves fragile and fleeting, the best of humanity occurs when we band together and create new understandings that allow us to spend that time with the ones we love.

And public support may prove fragile.

Unsurprisingly, the one-way romance proved fragile.

The perception of stability linked to Mr Putin is proving fragile.

Her body has proved fragile in the past, her nerves suspect under the greatest pressure.

Most of the country's major banks struggled during the third quarter, as the stock and debt markets proved fragile.

But subsequent governments proved fragile, and full-scale north-south ethnic and religious civil war erupted in 1962.

Under what circumstances, Shakespeare asked himself, do such cherished institutions, seemingly deep-rooted and impregnable, suddenly prove fragile?

The birth in 1918 of the post-Habsburg, downsized, monoglot Austria of the First Republic inspired little enthusiasm among its people, and its democracy soon proved fragile.