Sentence examples for sound fragile from inspiring English sources

Rose Polenzani's songs can sound fragile and unguarded; their openness is their strength.

Young's sound, fragile though it was, never took on the glacial delicacy and deliberation of the Cool School manner of playing, even though his influence did so much to inspire it.

Even in the cheeriest songs, she sounded fragile.

Returning after a battle with Ménière's disease, an inner-ear disorder, Mr. Adams sounds fragile but determined, in a Glyn Johns production that gives each discrete instrument a natural glow.

The songs sounded fragile, which is perhaps why the band incurred so much bilious response — even when troubled, rock stars are supposed to stomp and preen, while Coldplay only moped.

The BBC's State Department correspondent Kim Ghattas says the agreement sounds fragile, and could yet be derailed before talks begin.

/ No new ideas in the house, and every book has been read" was an examination of the band's longevity, stating "Bono sounded fragile, wounded, seeming even to ponder the band's usefulness".

It's a beautiful, elegiac ballad, Bowie's voice sounds gorgeously fragile – not the fragility of someone nearing 70 who's lost their vocal power to the ravages of age, but the fragility of someone who wants to communicate an aching wistfulness.

He places his melodies near the top of his range to sound more fragile, so the tunes straddle the break between his radiant tenor voice and his falsetto.

Mid-paced murmurs such as Me Again and Stumble capture his perennial mood of stoned torpor and yet sound as fragile and exquisitely troubled as Bon Iver.

Kenyon Farrow as Baldwin can appear and sound so fragile, he can make you want to rock him to sleep, as Jake does.