Her fingers were so fragile and so beautiful. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’s very fast for someone on crutches, and I’m convinced he’s not participating in a Spartan Race because he wouldn’t want to hurt the fragile male egos of his opponents. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I stood aside, afraid to move or speak against the fragile balance in the air. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Occasionally the ground beneath my feet shook from some faraway pounding and I felt that this world, despite its massiveness, was somehow dangerously fragile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seen this way, the making of a youthful artist is a process as fragile as growing up itself, and one that can be stunted at any step by the vicissitudes of life. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glided a hand laxly into her loose hair, twisting those soft yellow strands around his thin fingers which felt fragile and likely to snap, as if made of hollow, unhinged porcelain. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they weren’t in the protected section, so she figured it was fine to run her bare fingers over the smooth and fragile paper. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

All over he looks fragile, the model of someone grieving. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her thin, fragile form has become slim but muscular, and when she holds the gun, it looks easy. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Imprisonment, they say, now creates far more crime than it prevents, by ripping apart fragile social networks, destroying families, and creating a permanent class of unemployables. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Delicate silver and gold threads unraveled and wove themselves into the fragile wings of the frozen mariposas, converting the tiny creatures into magical designs stitched meticulously into the bodice of La Llorona’s gown. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The anaesthetized area was clearly defined by the patient and after a time the doctor’s fragile delicacy was exhausted and he said it would be better to have an X-ray. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I carefully turned the fragile pages of the sketchbook with my toes, and stopped on a sketch of a tarantula. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There’s not a lot of love for the girl who steals your brother away in a world where family is so fragile, where people lose each other daily. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You couldn’t fire a gun if you wanted to. You forget, I’m intimately familiar with your poor, fragile psyche. It’d give you nightmares.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I push the thought away because it’s too impossibly painful to dwell on without losing my fragile hold on the situation entirely. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But it is illusion to think that there is anything fragile about the life of the earth; surely this is the toughest membrane imaginable in the universe, opaque to probability, impermeable to death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you want to see a teenage illegal immigrant's already fragile self-esteem hit rock bottom, just take them to get their passport photo at a location where they might run into someone from high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The green light was gentle about them and the conch lay at Ralph's feet, fragile and white. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Support for American independence, for example, was always fragile and shifted with each victory or defeat in the field, which was often a matter of pure luck. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She had no idea how fragile everything was. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Everything in the here and now looked weird, too fragile, like it wasn’t supposed to be there. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own mental state became more fragile when I went to the bathroom and saw blood on my underpants. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Cooperation and communication broke down, and civil unrest caused fragile peacekeeping to crumble. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You cannot command us, child of war. Your own life is fragile. Your soul could burn at any moment. ” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sense of purpose crew gave him brought with it the constant danger of failing and thereby losing the precious but fragile pride that his early successes had brought him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Since she no longer had RiRi to comfort in these situations, Wab had to face herself, and it made her more fragile. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The problem for Bobby became that, since his teeth no longer had fillings, they also no longer had any support and became more fragile. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Both Carol and Grace are stubbyshaped, but this girl is thin without being fragile: lanky, sinewy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The skin of his face had shrunk back against the skull until it defined bone, not flesh, and made the nose and chin seem sharp and fragile. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind Harry, the entrance to the marquee revealed rows and rows of fragile golden chairs set on either side of a long purple carpet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The guilt stayed with him, ineradicable, like the silent alarm in the fragile chest. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bit of a shock, then, when Fang jeopardized our fragile flight pattern by leaning forward and slapping a picture against my left cheek. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t crying, not yet, but she was moments away from falling apart, and Ophie didn’t want to be the one to break her fragile control. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Connor studied the necklace while Zion flipped gently through the fragile sketchbook. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her voice sounded fragile, like fine crystal that might break at any moment, but each note was true and clear. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She said the birch-bark scrolls I used when I first came to the wilderness were too fragile for notes, but I still have them and they are as good as ever. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was terribly ashamed of herself for luring this fragile little creature out of her book. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Knowing that the procedure would be painful, they didn't want to disturb Garfield while he was in such a fragile state. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Due to my fragile health, I couldn’t go to Washington, D.C. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Its fragile arms and legs are hooked up to machines ten times its size. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“You understand, don’t you? It is important to all of us. Not only for your sake, but for this fragile world.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The colt tried to get up on its feet, but its fragile newborn legs folded under it and it fell down, looking helplessly up at its mother who neighed a greeting to the morning sun. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

People look at their pages like the screaming blankness is already invading their fragile minds. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Basta had put a plate over the top of the jug, but the fragile little thing didn't look as if she had the strength to fly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But now that she was trying to accomplish the task for the first time by herself, all her fragile hope was shattering. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“My husband was an important man, and I am pleased that you remember his films with such fondness, but he’s become so fragile. It’s not a good idea to dredge up the past for him.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He hoped that, after, he could begin to dream of the fragile joy of the months before the explosion and of the family that they had made for themselves in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, the tiny earth also appears very fragile, as if a giant hand could suddenly reach out and crush it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His freckled skin was lighter-hued, but they shared the same fragile eagerness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This was much the same: the fragile skin, the soothing water, the gentle motion of his hand, slippery with soap. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kira always stood at her mothers side, never touching the fragile ancient cloth, marveling each time at the rich hues that told the history of the world. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her wrists look fragile and breakable, and her long, skinny braids seem too heavy for her small body. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The natural state of things is coldness, and houses are fragile havens, holdouts in a death landscape, unforgettably comfortable, simple though they are, just because of their warmth. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked fragile right then in a way I’d never seen her look before. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

One struck the dead globe, causing it to sing its strange filamental music of the spheres, fragile and high-pitched above the outside noises. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These might look fragile, but they’re far from it. We could drop it from the top of the Lincoln Building and it wouldn’t break.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For hadn’t Leslie, even in Terabithia, tried to push back the walls of his mind and make him see beyond to the shining world— huge and terrible and beautiful and very fragile? Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the way back, he spotted the rarest and most delicate object in the wild, an old hummingbird’s nest, fragile and expertly woven, smaller than an eggcup. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then he simply says, “It is fragile, but not in the way that you suppose.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The shell around that once-perfect egg that held my childish faith was more fragile than ever, and I feared she was going to say something hurtful. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But Pinmei did not notice, for moonlight also fell upon a small, fragile figure crumpled in a heap not far from her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But it was also a fragile plate, one that would last only until fate smiled on some other quarterback rising up out of some other mud puddle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fragile balance depends on things we’ll never be able to see, hear, smell, taste, or touch. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

That was the last thing I wanted to do, but my mom had this fragile look in her eyes—a kind of warning, like if I pushed her too hard she’d start to cry. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

From this height, Perchance seemed puny and fragile, as delicate as one of Connor’s puzzlers. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And, really, what is more fragile than a jellyfish, which doesn’t even have any bones? The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At Independence in 1960, Nigeria was a collection of fragments held in a fragile clasp. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Carole had purchased first-class tickets on a commercial flight, but now everyone worried that John’s condition was so fragile, his appearance so scary, that the airline pilot might not allow them to fly. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She wanted to watch Mo giving Elinor's books new clothes, pressing fragile gold leaf into the leather with his stamps, choosing endpapers, stirring glue, fastening the press. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The dishes seemed impossibly fragile, the china thinner than a cracker and painted with brightly colored elephants. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then, as now, world peace seemed something we had only the most fragile grasp of, and I wished to do my part.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The more fragile the animal, the more it needs to protect itself. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The houses on either side were inhabited by I didn’t know who; wispy, fragile old ladies seemed most likely. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aquamarines near the shoreline, the azures of deeper waters, the eggshell blues beneath by grandmother’s eyes, the fragile indigos tracking her hands. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are much too fragile to risk. Let me finish them off?’ The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

On the sideline, he unzipped his backpack carefully, as though it contained something fragile and precious, which in a way it did: a single black oversized sneaker. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

There was something helplessly fragile about him; he looked as if a wind would blow him down. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The soils are fragile red laterite and the rain is savage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hang them low on the original tree, which looks too fragile to climb. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A gust blew down the chimney, threatening the fragile fire. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had watched Granddaddy poke a hole in the dirt with a pencil before tenderly easing the fragile green stalk into its new home. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Gum Baby worries about him. He’s so fragile.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I blew gently on the fragile flames and saw one skinny twig start to burn, then another. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He held the bundle in front of him as if it were fragile. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her own voice sounded fragile to her, thin. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Not for a while, at least. She's fragile. I see it in her eyes." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was practising strokes, looking very fragile under the light that came down above the billiard table. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

This fragile sky has terrified you your whole life. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

By him stood Piggy still holding out the talisman, the fragile, shining beauty of the shell. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We carried the tree home and decorated it with Grandma’s antique ornaments: ornate colored balls, fragile glass partridges, and lights with long tubes of bubbling water. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he tries to explain our delicate relationship with the Indians, how we trade and work to keep a fragile peace, they scoff at him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Despite his fragile physical and mental health, William still had an unequaled breadth of cryptographic experience, as well as close and long-standing friendships with key people in European intelligence circles. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Back in the darkest corner of my heart it lay, so well pressed that its fragile edges might chip, break off, even disintegrate if I tried to touch it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hit the road. You better grab that whole bag of candy cane truffles from the backseat. I think we need them in our emotionally fragile state.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Lina opened the fragile notebook and laid it on the ground in front of her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lee would sit smiling a little, and his quick fragile hands flew about their work as though they had independent lives. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The one picture I had seen of her as a young woman showed her in a shimmering blue dress, her dark hair framing her face, a fragile grace holding her in the studio photographer’s chair. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t tied her scarf around her head yet this morning, and her bare scalp looked too soft, too fragile in the morning light, like a baby’s. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Crumbley had become a desiccated cast of himself, so fragile that a strong wind could blow him apart. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And most of them were here now, on the dead seas, in their resurrected ships, by their dead chess cities, one of which had just fallen like some fragile vase hit by a pebble. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so cold that the youngest, most fragile branches snapped in the frigid air, and very quickly, I started feeling it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As she and I watched, the fragile growth disappeared from the earth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I was awarded tweezers and a small boost to my fragile self-esteem. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was as light and as fragile as paper. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Nothing seemed to have changed about him, yet my new, fragile life was about to break into pieces. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her beauty had gone to a kind of fragile gauntness. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline was so tiny, so fragile, she must be given every chance of life. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others were driven to what, in retrospect, was a sort of permanent state of mourning: for our loved ones, who always seemed at risk, and for our own lives, which felt so fragile and vulnerable. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

More people should be privileged to fly in space and get the chance to see the fragile earth as it appears from afar. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow everyone knew that this was not a time for talking, as if the loud words placed in the fragile air would break something. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She handed it, wrinkled and brown and fragile, to the Owner. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even the most fragile things would never break. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His neck seemed so thin and fragile, his arms skeletal. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As if, she thought, it contained something too fragile and too valuable to let go of; he wanted to keep it perpetually in his hands. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

His downcast face was fragile and forlorn as a swallow’s, and he rubbed the back of his arms rhythmically. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Shadow lifted her and wrapped her, fragile and almost weightless, in a blanket, and placed it onto the bag. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snow’s greenhouse. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Children are also inundated with sounds that enhance life or distract from it, dividing children’s already fragile attention and making it difficult for them to filter out unwanted noises and focus. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The knots fell apart in my hands, the rope fell apart, and he wrapped his fat hands around Astelle’s neck and squeezed until the room crackled with the snap of fragile bones. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Annabeth now saw just how fragile the marble tiles were under her feet. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Faber peered out, looking very old in the light and very fragile and very much afraid. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure Jupe would say something about a “fragile male ego” like she did the first time I expressed astonishment over getting dumped. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In fact, everything seemed to be drawn toward the face of this god—the dim light, the poisonous clouds, the essence of the monsters, even Annabeth’s own fragile life force. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They are ancient paper lanterns, translucent, unlit, strung across the courtyard, too fragile to move — though when he sees Ralph, his father, still a brave man, tries to speak. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked so small now, tiny and fragile. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now she was fragile and delicate and light—dry grasses wrapped in crumbling paper that might fall apart in a gust of wind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was a big, wicked- looking weapon that made the M-16’s look almost fragile in comparison. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breeding Hippogriffs build nests upon the ground into which they will lay a single large and fragile egg, which hatches within twenty-four hours. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own life was as fragile as a half-burned piece of wood. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They felt momentarily young and untroubled, almost like teen-age lovers, and they instinctively shied away from talking much for fear of upsetting this fragile miracle, a gift they had never expected to receive. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her thin body seems so fragile she might break. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Against the dark fabric of my slacks, my hands seemed thin and fragile. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On top of her already fragile state, she is now terribly concerned—and feels guilty—about Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Or are you one of the fragile creatures who will fall in love with a lord’s son and pine away?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

But for now, in a fragile peace dominated by the buzz of flies, they immersed themselves in experiments on genes and chromosomes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her face, turned to him now, was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

We heard the snap of fragile bones, the pop of bursting skin as the car rolled by, leaving a trail of collapsed green sacs in its wake. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There were her mother’s slender arms, which looked so fragile and birdlike, as if they might snap under too great a weight, but which could carry more than any woman Pearl had ever seen. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He even insured the girl’s life, since children after all were such fragile things and could be taken from the world in a heartbeat. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“He is but a fragile man, and you know their fortitude is weaker than ours.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted him easily and he hugged himself to me', his fragile arms as light as a necklace. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of it is a fragile land base where the elevation is high, rainfall is scarce, and drought is a part of life. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Badminton/” “At least it’s not as bad as the seniors,” I said, handing him the fragile racquet and the fey shuttlecock. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was also the political problem with the deepest social and economic roots in the new nation, so that removing it threatened to disrupt the fragile union just as it was congealing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The pod sat in its clamp, looking very fragile to be rocketing about on magma streams. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

To Estha—steeped in the smell of old roses, blooded on memories of a broken man—the fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine,” Toby said, sounding so desperate and fragile he could barely stand to hear himself. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The Earth is a tiny and fragile world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only trouble with this change was that Beta cloth is also very fragile, and if your knees or elbows got even a little bit worn, the glass fibers would come loose. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being sick made me feel fragile, like I might break. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I did not want to hear that I could not set forth to seek Hallows with a fragile and unstable sister in tow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There before him was the great carven dais where the old lady had sat, her fragile, tended body wrapped in silvery satin. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She looked worn, her skin pulled tight against the fragile bones, and she still wore black. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald, tough, brown, and wiry, seemed almost gentle as he helped the fragile, pale child balance on the bicycle. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She does her best to make them, but they are fragile and break easily. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The red nails made her look womanly while the rest of her—the thin pale arms, the fragile neck—remained as girlish as always. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You need this,” she whispers, and on her way out she murmurs to Fiona, “A quick visit, okay? She’s still very fragile.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

At the end of his life, when his ninety years had turned him into a twisted, fragile tree, Esteban Trueba would recall those moments with his granddaughter as the happiest of his whole existence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There he sat, that Sunday, in Florence’s tiny, fragile parlor, a very rock, it seemed to the eye of her confusion, in her so weary land. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then his eyes touched on the book under Montag's arm and he did not look so old any more and not quite as fragile. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Xan closed her eyes and pressed her feet to the ground and felt the magic flow through her fragile bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Dragon, too, looked at the U-shaped bridge, with its fragile ropes. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He had no way of knowing that during the night, his wife in great pain, and after nearly twenty-four hours of labor, gave bloody birth to a fragile baby girl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you will need to hold on to my arm very tightly. My left, if you don’t mind — as you have noticed, my wand arm is a little fragile at the moment.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

A master luthier, Illien transformed the archaic, fragile, unwieldy court lute into the marvelous, versatile, seven-string trouper’s lute we use today. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Lord never sends you more than you can bear— That was an ancient Maycomb phrase employed by its fragile ladies who sat up with corpses, supposed to be profoundly comforting to the bereaved. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was very fragile and covered with crinkly paper with a miniature spray of purple wisteria painted on the top. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he was tall and tough as nails, he seemed almost fragile compared to the captain of the Crux. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now she reached through the things within and took from near the bottom a fragile bit of folded cloth. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We met O’Dell at the Frog Level crossroads, and he squeezed into the back in between rockets, careful not to bend the fragile fins. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s that we both keep losing the peg game and we’re emotionally fragile.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Soft fragile life emerging from within the hard shell. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She felt as fragile as glass in his hands, her limbs as weak as water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Many of his colleagues knew that he'd had some kind of breakdown during the war, and that he was still somewhat fragile, but they didn’t know much more than that. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She embraced her gently so as not to crush the fragile marble bones, and anxiously inhaled a mouthful of her unmistakable perfume. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But despite the heated words, a fragile consensus emerged. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Here the rooftops are too fragile for my air rope launcher. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She mentions the fragile constitution of the Belles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They were followed by a wobbly-legged youngster that looked as fragile as a Christmas ornament. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are so fragile, children of blood and bone. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Remember, her condition is fragile. The doctor gave you specific instructions to get her on board,” the recruit said to me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was struck by how traumatized, fragile, and confused Shin seemed. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As he brushed himself off, Skinny ran down the mountain toward the fragile, papery house he shared with his family. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You were a rare and fragile flower once. You remember.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It took only one person to tear away the delicate strands of the web, spilling the rays of sun into the sand, and the fragile world would be injured. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I believe that your immune system is especially fragile given what I could surmise about the nature of your upbringing. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed her backpack, climbed out of Harold, and slammed his precious, fragile door behind her. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon Parkhill did some target practice in one of the dead cities, shooting out the crystal windows and blowing the tops off the fragile towers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He somehow makes a fragile peace, somehow convinces the gentlemen to wait just a little longer for an east wind. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I could not be attracted to Al—I could not be attracted to anyone that fragile. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And the texture of skin around the eyes, how fragile it was, and earliest to wrinkle, and the dart and flicker of the orb beneath the lid. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Since facing down the cow monsters in Venice, Frank had barely thought about his fragile lifeline. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And just like that, the fragile connection we were starting to build snapped. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though a manless house was an uncompleted home, and though the father was keenly missed, there was a laxity and fragile vigor that could not survive his homecoming. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the core of a volcano, fragile things burst and disappear. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had dark hollows beneath his eyes, and the fragile, trembling build of someone who had missed several meals and didn’t seem to care. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Supplies aren't nearly so fragile as humans and can hit the ground really hard. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Messenger, compared to them, seemed fragile, almost tiny. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its fragile golden skin is punctured, and the sun bleeds oranges and yellows across the bottom of the sky. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That day, I knelt with a bunch of fifth graders as we carefully put seedlings into the ground, patting the dirt into place around the fragile stalks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was quiet, with a slightly nervous demeanor; when Kathy met him she’d thought he was a fragile sort of man. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Still, we knew how fragile our security was in the face of constantly changing German rules and policies. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She knows better than you do how fragile life is. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He looked a little fragile—but he wasn’t. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was hard to hate a fragile old lady, even one so vile. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Madam,” said Lucius Clarke, “could you please attend to your daughter. She is holding a very fragile, very precious, quite expensive doll.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ever since the encounter in New Mexico—whatever had happened when that wild wind blew through—he seemed really fragile, even more emotional than usual. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It is not far through the Labyrinth. And try to stay alive, will you? Humans are much more fragile than automatons.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was sure to roll over and crush out his life or break those fragile bones. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone forgets about the smallest, most fragile ones when there's high drama going on. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I felt myself naked and fragile, an intruder, and my eyes, searching for anything but the bearded faces to look at, settled, finally, upon the sidewalk at my feet. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The robot gently cradled the fragile thing in her hand. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The skin felt fragile and greasy, like waxed paper that had curled in an oven’s heat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My stomach is fragile enough that even though the lot is well beyond the stockyards, I stay inside the stock car until everything’s been set up. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She knew what she would see, and she went cold the moment the door swung open, and she was faced with the fragile silence inside. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Must treat her carefully, because she is fragile and might break if expected to do the same as everyone else. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He considers me also a little fragile, because artistic: I need to be cared for, like a potted plant. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was flipped onto my back, one of the man’s forearms braced against my neck, crushing the fragile rings of cartilage. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

My mother was not a fragile, sickly woman. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Last night I watched her pack up all the fragile cups, moaning about what she’d have to leave and who’d get it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When everyone treated him as if he was fragile, as if he would crumble any second. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The earth truly is fragile, in the sense that its surface can easily shift from blue and white to black and brown. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was heavily medicated and extremely fragile both physically and mentally. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

And, of course, as replication became the test, historical facts, which had once seemed so solid and reliable, came to seem increasingly fragile and tenuous. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He grew awkwardly into a tall, strange, dreamy boy with fragile eyes and a very delicate mouth whose tentative, groping smile collapsed instantly into hurt disorder at every fresh rebuff. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I can’t hear anything except a few phrases: Cadence is so fragile, needs lots of rest. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Mother didn’t want to tear the fragile tissue, so she cut the bag away slowly, carefully, until the leg was visible. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To his surprise, his father began very carefully to direct the needle into the top of the newchild’s forehead, puncturing the place where the fragile skin pulsed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

That's great, but having seen the fragile nature of my handiwork, I wanted a good long test of the pressure seal. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels somehow epic and fragile, and I want the night to last forever, and knowing it can’t already has me sad. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was a fluke that they even had a cello; they’re very expensive and fragile. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down at the flat, fragile shapes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Her belly was so huge that it could barely be supported by her fragile frame. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were storing all the fragile pieces in the cellars, including the harpsichord. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her body was so slim and fragile one got the feeling that if she fell over she would smash into a thousand pieces, like a porcelain figure. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

For all her careening and jangling, Ess knew to be gentle and still with the fragile thing. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Fundraising envelopes were piled on the table, and next to them was a stack of colored tissue, like fragile cloth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But sitting at the dining table, with her enormous hips concealed, she managed to look almost fragile. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His little hooked arm is curled tight against his body like an extraordinary seashell, pale and fragile. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

But after that day the weather, and the way people remembered it, became something more; something potentially more deceptive, and yet something much more meaningful, more fragile and rare, and even more beautiful. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

His hand felt so small and fragile, as though it was blown from glass. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The power is not divinity but a deep knowledge of how fragile everything—even the Dream, especially the Dream—really is. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There is a fragile peace between the gentlemen who were willing to kill us by starvation, and us commoners who were ready to murder them in their beds. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Coming within strangling distance of the Crown Prince of Adarlan, son of the man who sentenced her to a slow, miserable death, her self-control balanced on a fragile edge—dancing along a cliff. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He had barricaded the most fragile of his convictions—that purely hereditary influences could explain such patterns of accomplishment—from any scientific challenge. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The medicine seemed to have quieted his dad down, too, but Gregor was still unnerved by how fragile he looked. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every time the door swings open, your fragile world gets a little more broken. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

To his left is a life-size print of Michelangelo’s David, so vivid in the fragile afternoon light that I keep expecting his chest to heave as he claims his first breath. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Children are fragile, Amir jan. Kabul is already full of broken children and I don’t want Sohrab to become another.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After they’d dropped their bombs, those guns that were firing from the ground had torn through their fragile aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The upper class, however, in whose hands were concentrated all the power and wealth, was unaware of the danger that threatened the fragile equilibrium of their position. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few fragile seconds, she remained as detached as the clouds overhead, suspended in an intermediate space between nightmares and dreams, where reality couldn’t reach. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

One fragile musical thread did survive the collapse of Greco-Roman civilisation, given impetus by what seemed at first to be insignificant events in a troublesome frontier territory. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It was only a watch. Nobody got hurt, not like that poor Ross Wilcox lad. Nobody died. Be more careful with fragile things in the future, that's all. Is there anything left of the watch?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Life is a fragile thing, Percy. If the Fates will the string to be cut, there is little I can do. But I can try.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You seem that fragile to me,” says Mummy. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

A relief that survived for one fragile second. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She looked out at the clouds outside her window, smoky thickets drifting by, and thought how fragile they were. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That is, Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I squeeze it lightly, out of fear that he is fragile now, that he could break from the sadness. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She was obsessed with them for some reason, even though anything so fragile seemed anti-Twig. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s John Adams. He meant democracy is fragile. All we can do right now is go along.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And when she handed it back to him the next morning, she always acted as if she were handing him something fragile. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Beyond the fragile security of the familiar walls of Marina’s home, her Motherland was exploding. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They were out of place in that fragile delicate room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then he slid a spoon under the fragile, trembling sac of yolk, and popped one, then the other into his mouth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dugout canoe seems such a fragile bird to carry that weight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For nearly a decade, she and my father held a fragile truce between them, with Jagu living under her care, eating meals in her room and wearing clothes that she stitched for him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even after the men grew bored and returned to listen to the truck’s radio, Ruby stayed by the field, thinking about that damp earth, those fragile beansprouts. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the varnish dried and hardened on the fabric, it created a fragile and lovely translucent yellow decking fore and aft. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, curly hair gushed from her fragile, musical head. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He desperately wants to end it with her, but she is fragile, unbalanced, and he's afraid that she might commit suicide if he breaks it off. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Behind the fragile facade of greenery lived a press of people who could gather at a moment’s notice. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to pluck them out but the skin was so fragile that it pulled off as well, so he just pulled the skin off the bird. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s beautiful,” Mama said, gently placing her hand on the woman’s fragile shoulder. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The dogs fall silent at the edge of my spell, and where the king’s hall surmounts the town, the blind old Shaper, harp clutched tight to his fragile chest, stares futilely down, straight at me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not—she could not—outlive the grief of her inheritance, but she embraced and defended the most fragile of her children from the will of the strong. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It looked nothing like the foreboding, cliff-ringed fortress I had first laid eyes upon a few weeks ago; now it seemed fragile, a shard of rock in danger of being washed away by the waves. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Will that wire really be able to conduct that much power, Beetee? It looks so fragile, like it would just burn up.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each of those circles had been on Immie’s fragile fingers at one point or another. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Glancing down at the fragile bit of life in her lap, Aunt Queen asked Gerald, “Tell me, what do you think of our little Angel here?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gripping the line in her blistered hands, she was fragile, but proud. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I had regained a fragile sense of calm, and I left the bathroom carrying that calmness delicately, as if it were a china plate balancing on my head. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As did most people, even oldsters who were physically fragile. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed a fragile defense against the crazed Shed, but he had to do something. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The model looks like a latticework corkscrew invented by a madman, or an impossibly fragile spiral staircase that might connect the human past to its future. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When she came back to me, Ari, she seemed so fragile. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But because the light travels such a long distance, the magic in it is fragile and diffused, stretched into the most delicate of threads. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In fact, things with the Fugees were more fragile than I could have realized that day. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The pottery was thin, so fragile that even he had been warned not to squeeze too tightly, lest he crush it in his fist. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“People ought to know better than to touch wee little fragile things like these.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was too fragile to be caught in a crowd. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But she accedes to his wishes, as do I. As long as you can, you will please the father, the most holy and fragile animal. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was followed by a man and a woman who looked to be in their midsixties, fragile and birdlike in their movements. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And she deeply resented the fact that Bloom could jeopardize their fragile marriage in this way. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

People slamming, shoving, scrambling like ants as the hill presses in, threatening to crush their fragile shells. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My fragile heart would not have survived seeing up-to-the-minute photos of my friends and classmates on Facebook or Instagram or Snapchat. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She felt small and fragile, the way ice over a lake thins as the weather turns warm. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She tried not to trample their fragile growth. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In a fragile whisper, she said, “They have flying machines,” and watched, desolate, as the understanding changed their three faces, bullying out the last defiant shred of hope, leaving nothing but despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But the next morning brought an end to the quiet and Matthias’ fragile sense of peace. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Or did their fragile existence just suddenly stop? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I think about those huge hands and about how, if he could crush me, he could destroy her—tiny, fragile Megan. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want her to like him because his father had died and she thought he was fragile. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Dried plants, beige and fragile, hung from the ceiling rafters. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nibs we used were very fragile and most boys kept a supply of new ones in a small box in their trouser pockets. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This parchment is very fragile,” said Mr. Lyons. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Virtuous though you may be, a reputation is a fragile thing, easily lost and often never regained,” she said, searching my face as if looking for evidence there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Small and fragile and wounded though it was, he did not want to approach it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And what little still remained to white people was shriveled like a seed hoarded too long, shrunken past its time, and split open now, to expose a fragile, pale leaf stem, perfectly formed and dead. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I lift the box out of the closet like a fragile piece of glass. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Rondon’s gifts of metal tools were a persuasive means of communication, allowing him to forge a fragile friendship. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He snapped it back and held his hand over its fragile flame. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice sounded so fragile, nothing like the Ishtar I thought I knew. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Neal brushed April’s teeth with the little spongy pink toothbrush that was too soft to cut into her fragile gums. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the way down the steps, Wash steadied her as if she were a fragile package he did not want to break. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bees were more fragile than I ever imagined. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, to paint those symbols with a slight brush and a quick turn of the wrist and to make a clear black mark as fragile as a piece of a butterfly wing! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rising volume of noise threatened to push his panic over the edge, but he knew he was treading on fragile ground with Trina. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

With great tenderness, she scooped up the fragile toadstool in her mouth and was gone in one mighty leap. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Oh, the fawn broke my heart with its sweet, dished face, its absurdly fragile legs, its still-fuzzy coat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the pain of our grief would break through the surface and threaten the fragile friendships we were nurturing. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The inside of the store had a clean, warm but fragile scent, like odorless flowers in a hot room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked fragile, with short white hair that stood straight up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

These eleven were the major events, and they were hooked together like a fragile daisy chain looped around the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their father had passed away the year before and their mother was of fragile health and mind, so all funds they earned fishing went toward the welfare of the house they shared with ten siblings. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Heavy, bulky, and fragile, with banks of switches carefully wired together, Purple was not a natural traveler. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Despite that role, Jesse was more fragile than he let on, or would ever admit. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now Hideo is before me, exposing some fragile, inner working of his heart, and I’m sitting here and staring back, flustered and confused. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now he saw how fragile it all was, laid open to its enemies at its heart. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There, like some fragile miracle, a pulse, a heartbeat. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

One fragile strand of phoenix feather kept both pieces hanging together. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her hand wasn’t the delicate, fragile thing I had expected. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We ended up sitting together, dissecting our evening with Captain Carroll and the fragile peace that had settled over Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I ruffled Jeffrey’s hair, told him to be good and not to play too much WWF Wrestling Live with his fragile mother, took a deep breath, and walked away into my big night. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The league, in their view, was inherently fragile and fissiparous; if it had been founded a thousand years ago, it would have broken up well before the Pilgrims. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Or has she already started to slip away, leaving the weight of the world on my sister's fragile shoulders? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

First, because he wasn’t the type, and second, because he finally understood how fragile she was, how unmoored and untethered, like a shiny balloon floating through the air, no hand to steady her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She took the bundle and cradled it lovingly in her embrace, as if it were a fragile baby. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The chick left dollops of violet-streaked droppings all over the place, due, I suppose, to the dye soaking into its fragile system. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All women, by their nature, are fragile and weak: they are attracted to the male in whom they see strength. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d spent this time making a copy of the document, in case anything happened to the fragile original. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she was a fragile pile of opaque bones, with yellowed nails and no monthly blood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made me feel as fragile as porcelain. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Because his health was fragile, my father took the bed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I wonder if this is what Reverend Hunt means about making decisions out of love—love for our newfound Indian friends, love for our fragile New World colony. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, the word as fragile as an egg. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He was fragile, half the size he should have been, and he wore oxygen tubes because his lungs had never fully developed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dry, fragile leaves dance around his feet, drawn in through the fence by the wind. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“But you know, grandson, this world is fragile.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rather than jar his fragile stomach with solid foods, the doctor decided he should be put on a liquid diet until he got better. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Behind that lay a courtyard with a dry pool and a fragile dogwood leaning over in vain to see its reflection. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And he saw them: Malfoy with his arms around the unconscious Goyle, the pair of them perched on a fragile tower of charred desks, and Harry dived. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She held the yearbook like it was fragile glass. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, at the end of all our wanderings, we return to our tiny, fragile, blue-white world, lost in a cosmic ocean vast beyond our most courageous imaginings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother could sense that the women of these families also had unspeakable tragedies they had left behind in China and hopes they couldn’t begin to express in their fragile English. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the fragile work permit was no guarantee of safety during the roundups. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But what Schooler is saying is that all these abilities are incredibly fragile. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grosie was short and fragile, with a gray pompadour and smiling brown eyes. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But I'm afraid you won't be able to touch it. It's fragile." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He imagined being in Frank’s position, his life so fragile, it literally could burn up at any time. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jomon Japan was a conservative miniature universe that maintained its isolation and changed surprisingly little over the course of 10,000 years—an island of stability in a fragile, rapidly changing contemporary world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I buried my face into the baby’s neck, felt his pulse beat its hot and fragile rhythm. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kino had wondered often at the iron in his patient, fragile wife. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he’s fragile, I’m willing to use his body for a stability I can’t always provide for myself. How my husband forgot sex 2014-02-13T00:00:00Z

Both works are delicate, but only “Evanescent” appears alarmingly fragile. Review | In the galleries: Where nature and technology’s detritus collide 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

She remained too fragile to touch, too close to death to move. Motherlode: Becoming a Father 2011-06-17T21:03:14Z

As conceived by Ridley and conveyed by Benjamin, Hendrix is first and foremost an artist, someone who could be fragile, elusive, quixotic and temperamental. 'Jimi: All Is By My Side': Before Hendrix became Hendrix 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Mary is as fragile as a sparrow’s bone. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 5: On Your Knees 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Musically, there's much to impress, with Orbit utilising admirable restraint on first single The Flood and the jaunty A Happy Place, while Melua's voice is at its fragile best on the stately Red Balloon. Katie Melua: The House 2010-05-20T22:29:00Z

An especially intriguing new film concerns hardy survivors who traveled miles and miles across surging seas on a fragile means of transport many, many centuries ago. Spare Times for Children for April 11-17 2014-04-10T23:03:12Z

While the project introduces a more personal — and at times vulnerable — side of Erivo, she’s most fragile on “You’re Not Here,” a track that reveals her broken relationship with her dad. Cynthia Erivo is vulnerable, yet powerful on ‘Ch. 1 Vs. 1’ 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

It's the quieter, fragile moments that work best: a slow rendition of Mary, from their first album, that is soft as down, or Our Window, whose slanted guitar notes are suspended in stillness and hush. Noah and the Whale 2010-07-14T09:16:00Z

Again, Jones is the centre of Breathe In: a Home Counties cuckoo in Pearce's fragile family nest. Drake Doremus on Breathe In: 'I feel a mid-life crisis coming' 2013-07-18T14:20:20Z

“At work, they knew me to be capable but fragile,” Candace says. Ling Ma’s “Severance” Captures the Bleak, Fatalistic Mood of 2018 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

The new closures will harm an already fragile field. Smithsonian, National Gallery to close as coronavirus cases spike 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

The fragile poetics of the album show Li as a still-young person lionizing her vulnerabilities, but the album's mature sound makes those passions accessible for listeners beyond her 25 years. Lykke Li's second album blends youthful vulnerability and mature sound 2011-05-19T19:59:17Z

There’s a broad-based young wine decanter that will expose the liquid to more air and soften it, and a narrower one for older wines shaped to help retain the fragile fruit and aroma. One Wine Glass to Rule Them All 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

The dish is substantial, but not heavy; crisp, but not fragile. A Delicious Link to Oaxaca in South Los Angeles 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

The Sahel is an environmentally fragile zone that stretches across Africa just south of the Sahara desert. How climate change is helping al-Qaida 2013-12-03T13:45:00Z

For this year’s Fringe, Ms. Whitehill teamed up with Strictly Arts, a company based in Birmingham, England, to devise a crusading work of physical theater called “Freeman,” about the fragile mental health of black prisoners. At Edinburgh Fringe, a Spotlight on Mental Health 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

It yields objects that are sleek and fragile, exemplifying an aesthetic shaped by Shinto and Buddhism’s acceptance of transience. In the galleries: Tales that unfold from the folding of paper 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The stories in this slim, affecting work of fiction feature young men in various states of displacement after dictatorship yields to fragile democracy in an unnamed country. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

“They were little babies, and they were fragile and vulnerable and cute and adorable, and I was responsible for their welfare.” Her pet chickens were a source of emotional support during the pandemic. Then, the predators came. 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z

Fragmented and dissonant, full of fragile melody and tensile strength, this music, played by Andy Stack, evokes the cracked-glass lyricism of McCullers’s prose. Theater Review: ‘February House,’ at the Public Theater 2012-05-23T02:00:01Z

"They're posted everywhere. They're in multiple different languages. All around the border of the geyser, there are rules saying that it is very dangerous, that the ground is unstable and very fragile." Tourists arrested at Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful geyser for 'thermal trespassing' 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Whenever I did try to get sober, I’d find myself feeling even more sensitive, weak, and fragile then I’d been in the first place. Pain management 2012-11-08T21:57:00Z

As anyone over 40 knows, individual memory is fragile and increasingly full of holes. Theater Review: Culture Project?s Revival of ?And God Created Great Whales? 2012-02-16T01:03:49Z

Instead, the exchange that occurs between Greta and Mariche unfolds according to a different model, one that is spontaneous, fragile and poignant. After abuse,"Women Talking" challenges the misuse and metamorphosis of forgiveness 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

His confidence, fragile at first, has firmed by degrees. Reed Krakoff Will Show His First Collection Since Leaving Coach 2014-02-05T23:49:10Z

Parenting is a terrifying prospect if we allow ourselves to consider human fragility, and my son is a declaration of just how fragile — and just how resilient — humans are. Motherlode Blog: Becoming the Parent With the Child in the Wheelchair 2013-08-16T15:43:50Z

They should sound more like freedom and less like fragile vases being handled with extraordinary care. Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

I glanced at my sons and back to the fragile girls. You can't resolve your way through New Year's grief 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

Other unintended moral: Never sacrifice your life for an emotionally fragile gaggle of infidels with bleached teeth. "Lost" finale's secret lessons 2010-05-24T09:10:00Z

Why are so many relationships just so fragile? Why sex and love don’t belong in the same bed 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

Armies of angry fans can be deployed to defend fragile superheroes. Poking at Politics, Without a Stick, on Big and Small Screens 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

He understands the fragile star psyche, and he knows when to chide and when to stroke. Graydon Carter, the Last Impresario 2014-02-28T22:40:19Z

The joy of this tomato pie is in how it leans on those misshapen heirloom varieties, which are — like many of us — fragile and prone to bruising. A Timeless Tomato Tart 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

And because I'm a writer, people think that I'm this poor little fragile thing. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z

I delivered my daughter while wearing an N95 mask and birthed this fragile, soft human into a world that is impossibly beautiful, which she has seen not nearly enough of. Perspective | All I want for Mother’s Day is a vaccine for my kid 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

And during the rapturous balcony scene, as he drew Ms. Osipova into his arms, raising her higher as she arched back, he was rhapsodic, she meltingly fragile. Dance Review: Natalia Osipova as Ballet Theater?s Juliet at the Met 2010-07-11T21:59:00Z

It was that fragile side I especially loved about Biff during my teenage years. Are pets really good for us – or just hairy health hazards? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z

Robinson approaches these people and their strange, fragile lives with tenderness and extraordinarily beautiful writing. Teen book club: Sara Zarr's Top 10 family dramas 2012-10-05T08:42:52Z

This boldness was accompanied by a certain anxiety about losing the male audience, anticipating the tantrums that would later be thrown by some fragile “Ghostbusters” and “Star Wars” fans. The Good, the Bad and ‘Black Panther’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Contagious diseases — both in fiction and in real life — remind us that the social and cultural boundaries we use to structure society are fragile and porous, not stable and impermeable. Apocalyptic fiction helps us deal with the anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

From the pop melodicism of his early solo albums to the transcendent abstractions of his later work, Coltrane kept obsessively searching for ways to capture the fragile beauty and spiritual yearning of the human experience. Netflix Has Some Great Music Documentaries. Here Are 11 of Them. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Ms. Monk’s new “Realm Variations” was energized when Catherine Payne played the improbably lyrical piccolo part and when Ms. Monk was singing, her voice warmly fragile. Music Review: American Mavericks, with San Francisco Symphony, at Zankel 2012-04-01T18:48:27Z

These quiet expressions of profound grief are the movie’s most affecting touches, a fragile subtext whispering beneath the story’s ruinous swerve into thriller territory. ‘Castle in the Ground’ Review: Dazed and Used 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

It works with lots of clothes, but I wouldn’t try it with electronics or fragile items. Perspective | These new travel carry-on bags are on a roll (if you can find them) 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

In these cold intergalactic spaces, a tired, fragile and ordinary human being is still trying to put together the pieces. Stravinsky and the modernism that still stirs 2013-01-03T07:30:01Z

"It's an opening up of communication between this very fragile developing art world and the rest of the world," said Iraq Pavilion curator Jonathan Watkins. Venice Biennale seeks to capture the "unruly" world of art 2013-05-29T16:12:38Z

But we need to be brave enough to act on what we do know now — to try to nurse our fragile ecosystems back to health, and keep them there. After a Midsummer Shiver, Provincetown Proceeds With Care 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

I want to make intense, ecstatic, fragile, intimate music, and squeeze it all into 10 seconds. Spiritualized's Jason Pierce hates making records, brilliant as they are 2012-04-26T21:34:00Z

Below is an exclusive first showing of the video for Reasons, a fragile piano ballad that showcases that undulating voice to haunting effect. New music: Saint Saviour - Reasons 2011-03-22T10:24:05Z

We know Conley’s story has a happy ending; the fragile fictional teens of Akhavan’s film are brought to a less certain brink of escape and self-realisation, though it cautiously points to a brighter, freer future. How gay cinema is calling on the past to point at a radical future 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Maybe because he was used to playing the role of caretaker to the fragile Saint Laurent, which he did throughout their relationship. 'L'Amour Fou' centers on the partner of late designer Yves Saint Laurent 2011-05-23T15:07:04Z

What is only partially fulfilled in this rendering is Chekhov’s double portrait of the story’s younger, striving and more fragile artists. Clarity, humor make this ‘Seagull’ fly 2013-01-31T17:44:16Z

It shows the Earth very far away, but — in the bigger scale of things — proximate, fragile, contingent, like the child you wave to on the other side of the departures gate. Perspective | The most stirring photo from the Apollo mission wasn’t of the moon. It was of the Earth. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

To underline the character’s more fragile side, Mr. Wilkinson draped Ms. Stewart in a filmy silk dressing gown. Jean Seberg’s Legacy: A Look With a Life of Its Own 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

What emerges is a story of victimization, not of the Afghans, but of a fragile, perhaps damaged American who tried to do the right thing but was thwarted at every step, including by the military. ‘The Kill Team’ Documentary Examines a War Crime 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Towner, who turned 70 this month, furnished the harmonic scaffolding and undercurrent of each tune, beginning with the polyrhythmic drift of “Punta Giara” and moving on to the fragile rubato of “Wistful Thinking.” Music Review | Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu: Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu Play at Columbia 2010-03-26T20:50:00Z

The myths that make life bearable are all too fragile. Letters to Juliet is corny as Kansas. Great! 2010-06-14T09:45:00Z

I look at the history — and the fragile political situation — on which this moment rests. Essential Arts & Culture: Ojai's new musical direction, a bangin' Bartók, an innovative arts patron gets her due 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

Later the dancers lay on the floor, holding the sticks end to end to form a long line and fighting to keep that line unbroken as they rotated their bodies around the fragile connection. Dance Review: Drawings in a Museum, Using Bodies 2011-01-13T21:50:01Z

Others are black and whites, intended for an album cover, of Madonna looking poised and fragile. Trove of 1980s Madonna pop culture awaits auction 2014-01-22T13:44:44Z

Cioppino is in fact as fragile as the industries that support it, though it’s so intertwined with San Francisco’s culinary identity that it exists year-round on menus. Cioppino This Good Can’t Be a Cliché 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

He said so far the masonry is stable but the structure remains fragile. New threat to fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral: Heat wave 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

It's doing something extraordinarily ambitious, difficult and fragile, and should be recognized. The Emmys' most glaring omissions 2011-07-15T13:50:00Z

The voice is a fragile thing, and few singers end up with 50-year careers at the Metropolitan Opera. After 50 Years at the Met Opera, Paul Plishka Retires (Again) 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

“The monument appears at once ageless and contemporary, transparent and opaque, fragile and permanent — a superscale light sculpture.” Michael Graves, innovative architect and designer, dies at 80 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

The real draw is the fragile, phenomenal reef that fringes swathes of the coast. Bonaire: Where Coral and Cactus Thrive, and the Sea Soothes the Soul 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

Video is a fragile medium that was never intended to hold image for decades. An Activist’s Path: A Q&A with the Oscar-nominated director of How to Survive a Plague 2013-02-21T13:00:05Z

“It was so interesting to see how they move onstage, and also how everything is so fragile — because they have an instrument inside themselves.” An Aria for the Long Island Lolita on ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

His assertion that well-known entities are toys to be played with, and not fragile, has set the terms for a generation of creative thinkers. Louis Vuitton Meets Nike in Virgil Abloh’s Dream Sneaker 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

We live in fragile, uncertain, neurotic times and Downton is a world of self-confidence as a nation. Hugh Bonneville: escape from Downton 2010-12-19T22:00:00Z

There is something evanescent, temporary and fragile about food. Jacques Pépin’s Food Memories 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

But the country’s reliance on tourism, combined with vigorous development and the effects of rising global temperatures, have conspired against Fiji’s fragile environment. Paradise Threatened: Fiji’s War Against Climate Change 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

I'm at my most fragile, and I don't want to peel anything, chop anything or even uncork anything. This two-ingredient, one-pan apricot tart is the simple way to make a French classic 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

As long as they remain apparently fragile tissues of word, image and emotion, these stories have unbelievable strength: as soon as she begins to turn them into strong narratives, they weaken and lose something. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell – review 2013-03-14T08:00:01Z

We sit together in our blackness and wonder: Can blackness really be so fragile that even a pair of narrow jeans may threaten it? Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

“Reboot the Suit” — the first and most successful of the Smithsonian’s three crowdfunding efforts — also raised money for the design and construction of a state-of-the-art display case to protect the fragile suit. Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit will be back on view at the Air and Space Museum in mid-July 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

She's played by Halley Feiffer with a quirky, likeably neurotic stage presence perfectly suited to this fragile but determined young woman. 'Tigers Be Still' treats depression with wry humor 2010-10-07T20:44:00Z

And Richard might as well be a porcelain figurine — exquisite, immobile, infinitely fragile. | London Theater Journal: Porcelain Portrayal of a Fragile King 2012-02-03T15:48:00Z

And while the worst of the management convulsions that had destabilised the company over the previous few years were over, the company still felt organisationally fragile. The Royal Opera on tour in Japan 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

Projects like this, which entail the shipping of big and preposterously fragile things, costs a mint. Art Review: In ‘Lost Kingdoms,’ National Treasures From Asian Countries 2014-04-10T23:05:18Z

In Ross Dickinson's masterpiece "Valley Farms," arid California hills bear heavily down on fragile fields, houses, roads and bridges. 'New Deal for Artists' paints a picture of Depression-era America 2010-12-08T23:46:00Z

Let’s stop looking the other way when thugs with lots of money and fragile egos do bad things. What the Roger Ailes saga can teach us about tyrants, power and protection 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

What you are witnessing is the conclusive collapse of a marriage’s fragile and necessary structure of illusions. Review: Tom Hiddleston in a Love Triangle Undone by ‘Betrayal’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

But there are people out there who — I guess because of their own fragile masculinity, their own fragile sense of whiteness — believe that “I just can’t say what I want to say anymore.” “There was a market for white resentment”: Tim Wise on Trump, David Duke and the bigotry that risen from the shadows 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Narrated retrospectively by the boys who fell under their spell, the story reads like a dissection of a fragile family in search of the reason why the girls each took their own lives. Fiction's best dysfunctional families 2013-06-06T10:44:02Z

A story told by four seemingly disparate narrators and anchored by a massive wooden desk, it explores both the fragile ties that bind us together and the indestructible objects that ground us. 27 best books of 2010: The Seattle Times looks back at a year of great reading 2010-12-18T01:15:33Z

Voicing the requisite cynicism about human relationships is Lucy, who compares romantic attachments to meringues, fragile and easily deflated, while friendship is the more reliable custard. | 'Happy Hour': ?Happy Hour,? One-Act Plays by Ethan Coen - Review 2011-12-06T03:01:00Z

So as you scrutinize the fragile surface, the painting is quietly signaling trouble. At LACMA's Toba Khedoori show, enchanting mysteries burn beneath a fragile surface 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

The book is intimately concerned with the fragile ecology of a Taiwan, which is threatened by a trash vortex. Review | Beyond ‘Dune’: Let’s talk about science fiction and fantasy novels about ecology and climate change 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

Marcia Davis, who edited Vargas in the Style section and became a close friend, says some bosses mistook his fear about his fragile immigration status for being manipulative. From journalism to activism: Jose Antonio Vargas’s life on the run

Eating there now, you would never know that encasing liquid in fragile little sacs used to be a thing, or that Mr. García had ever participated in it. At Casa Dani, Masterly Spanish Cooking in Globe-Trotting Garb 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

Kristine McKenna, who reviewed the show for this paper, described it as "rivetingly weird," an installation that drew vital attention "to the complex and fragile interplay between spirit and flesh." Regen Projects, at 25, has grown into a fixture in L.A. art world 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

They can't possibly understand the fragile economy that allows the whole to function because of the support we give to the weakest links. Arts funding cuts will bring down the curtain on our theatre's golden age 2010-07-28T12:31:00Z

That's one theory about this, and you can't brush it all off because it's going to affect this super fragile, new life in your body. Mystery illnesses are on the rise with women, whom doctors are dismissing as "nervous Nellies" 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Like many coveted objects, berries are both precious and frustrating, expensive and fragile. How to Keep Berries Fresh for Longer 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

In her catalog forward, MOG artistic director Susan Warner emphasizes how the serene beauty and playful spirit of these fragile vessels were created in a turbulent time. Shows full of sparkle at Museum of Glass 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Ms. Koch, whose growing repertory includes Wagner roles like Venus and Brangäne, sang with gleaming intensity, while still suggesting a fragile, confused young woman. Music Review: A New ‘Werther’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-02-19T11:01:44Z

The band’s synergy was a fragile one: Nico was not asked to sing on the Velvets’ second album. At Paris Exhibition, Tracing the Roots of the Velvet Underground 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

As the young woman who, disguised as a page boy, serves as their go-between, Ms. Hall’s Viola exudes a precocious awareness of how fragile love’s hopes are. All Over London, Love Hurts 2011-02-23T10:27:47Z

Now, as Sanders enters his 80s, he’s reminding us that the breath can be fragile, too. Perspective | Best music of 2021: Playboi Carti, Grouper, Turnstile, Yasmin Williams and more 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

A fragile but still commanding diva, whether playing poker with her friends on the lawn of her luxurious home or ordering a meal, she insists on getting her imperious way. Movie Review: ?The Salt of Life,? a Comedy by Gianni Di Gregorio 2012-03-02T00:28:51Z

He airs the problems of consciousness, including the fragile contingency of our existence. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

She returns to Clinton County, where she forges a bond both true and fragile with Harold Underwood. A Portrait of a Stalwart Life, and of America Itself 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

It's usual to perceive those who knowingly deceive the bereaved and fragile as despicable, but Kennedy doesn't do heroes and villains. The Blue Book by AL Kennedy ? review 2011-08-12T21:55:06Z

That number is not likely to increase, because even as our hunger for shrimp grows, the number of wild shrimp in the ocean is finite — and fragile. What Are We Supposed to Think About Shrimp? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

As a result, said Spencer, "we are recognizing that our world is broken, vulnerable and more fragile than we often want to admit." T.D. Jakes, other faith leaders weigh in on Ukraine's fight for freedom 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

It's like a survival reflex, the fragile ego can't fully handle the idea of being known by those who you don't know yourself, so it separates, creating a reflection. Keaton Henson: fame, stage fright and the discomfort of strangers 2012-10-03T13:46:03Z

The tapes are too fragile to even be moved. Sects, lies and videotape: "Archive 81" and the mystique of the semipermanent artifact 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

At the start of the Adagio, hushed, husky, fragile strings alternate with a piano line played by Mr. Vogt with ineffable softness, yet a quality of looming grandeur. Classical Playlist: Lewis Spratlan, Beethoven and Brahms 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

She’s curled up on the sofa as we speak, her legs tucked underneath her, looking fragile and bird-like, but her voice is surprisingly strong, as well as impressively articulate. My autism led me to become a champion of outsiders 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z

The aforementioned dream sequence with Smith’s husband segues into “Love Is All We Have Left,” a fragile cover of the recent U2 ballad. Poet and Punk: Patti Smith’s New Audiobook 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

At one point, Stella reflects that books tend to be about lives derailed – another fragile generalisation. Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley – review 2013-05-12T09:00:01Z

The fragile globe, dating from the 1880s, “doesn’t even change floors at the museum” in Paris, Ms. Quette said. Antiques: Prized Chinese Crafts, Delicate and Detailed 2011-01-27T21:37:59Z

I was relatively new to music criticism, confident in my tastes but insecure in my abilities, and I remember not wanting to muddle my fragile copy with all of that ugly information. Perspective | I gave R. Kelly rave reviews. How much damage did they do? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Indeed, her father’s capacity to humiliate, both verbally and physically, only made her self-esteem more fragile and increased her desire to eat. Criticized for her weight, opera star Deborah Voigt speaks up 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

To visit Kiev today is to witness the fragile moment when the present becomes history. Ukrainians Turn to the Arts in a Time of Upheaval 2014-04-29T21:46:47Z

We remember the video images of the Macondo deep-sea well as it spewed about 50,000 barrels of crude oil a day into southern Louisiana’s fragile ecosystem. ‘Spill’: A devastating account of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

The opera’s finale is a hard-won and fragile peace, but it is real peace nevertheless. An 18th-Century Opera, Supercharged for Our Time 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

It may, possibly, be even more comprehensive, even more indelible, than those fragile folios that can – and do – so easily go up in smoke. Don't write off literary letters 2010-10-11T11:38:00Z

Unsaid but manifest is how unequal that separate life always was, and how fleeting and fragile the happiness it brought. Review: The Tulsa Massacre, Remembered by Those Who Survived 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

The imperfect prints made from them remind us of how fragile our access to the past is, and of how much of daily human life gets lost to history. The Democratic Vision of a Lost and Found Early-Twentieth-Century Portrait Photographer 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

All dance legacies are fragile; hers may prove especially so. Trisha Brown, Choreographer and Pillar of American Postmodern Dance, Dies at 80 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Agreeing with that assessment, Lena added, in a phone interview, “A lot of it was taking your own vulnerability — a little pained, a little fragile — and turning it into a strength.” Influenced by Her Children, Laurie Simmons Exits Her Comfort Zone 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

It's the same with the supplications of the tenor soloist – here, the excellent Barry Banks – that ripple over the massed ranks of the choir and orchestra with fragile grandeur. Grande Messe des Morts – review 2012-06-28T17:11:53Z

Chief among the beliefs is that fragile sherries like manzanilla must be consumed almost immediately upon purchase or they will deteriorate. 2021 Seen Through 12 Unforgettable Wines 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Still, this is an engrossing, valuable cautionary tale that is particularly timely when the line between collective projection and reality seems more fragile — and more consequential — than ever. ‘Amanda Knox’ catches up with a murder suspect, now older and wiser. 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

So then for us it became a real fun, interesting experience of taking this beautiful, very fragile song, and making it into this big metal monster. How Judas Priest turned Joan Baez’s ‘Diamonds & Rust’ into a ‘metal monster’ 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Instead, it recognizes how fragile we all are and how cautious we should be about disrupting another’s well-ordered universe. Review: ‘The Children Act,’ by Ian McEwan puts beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses on trial

In giving testimony, Ford was practicing a form of authorship—a fragile one. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

“Through dark and light I fight to be,” Mr. Dan sang in a voice as fragile as Ellie’s sublimely ordinary beauty. A Summer of Buzzing Bugs, Tunes or Mets’ Losses 2013-08-29T21:54:01Z

We are so vulnerable, all of us, so achingly vulnerable, in our fragile society in our fragile bodies, and membranes between order and chaos and health and infection, have never appeared so thin. The power of Purell compels you! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

The Uffizi only occasionally displays the work, Leonardo’s earliest known drawing, because it’s fragile. Study of Leonardo’s 1st landscape finds he had 2nd thoughts 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

The more we talk, the more obvious it becomes how much comfort the two men find in talking together and listening to each other, in particular the slightly more fragile Safechuck. The Michael Jackson accusers: ‘The abuse didn't feel strange because he was like a god’ 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Some is ornamental and a bit fragile, like the Victorian papier-mâché chairs glistening with mother-of-pearl in the living room. Martha Stewart Opens the Doors to Her Historic Maine Estate 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

It must be grand, but not ostentatious; regal, but with a common touch; expensive but not a drain on taxpayers worried about their jobs and the nation's fragile economy. Royal wedding challenge: Make it grand, yet cheap 2010-11-18T19:16:00Z

Looking exquisite in 1940s fashions, Moore’s Sarah was both fragile and steely, speaking with a breathy rapture that pulled us to her. Julianne Moore: 8 roles to remember 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

“Men can be very fragile, and they like to be important,” she had said earlier that afternoon. Dating 6 Men at 68: The Woman Behind the Musical ‘Curvy Widow’ 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

Most Broadway shows do not recoup their investments, and most regional theaters in the country exist on a wing, a prayer and an extremely fragile mix of ticket sales and private donations. Perspective | Theater is a haven. But with the coronavirus, it’s become an incubator for our fears. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

This marathon celebration might also double as a case study in the ways that TV dramas as we know them feed the American story of the fragile and perpetually endangered white girl. The Lifetime movie turns 30: Escape reality with a marathon of nannies, cheerleaders & kids in peril 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z

As it happens, a fragile balance holds at 347 West 36th Street. The Gimlet Eye: New York?s Garment District Still Thrives 2010-04-28T20:01:00Z

In fact, it’s appropriate that some pieces in this Washington Sculptors Group exhibition are relatively fragile. In the galleries: ‘Micro-Monuments’ that take on a global perspective 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

If you’re hungry for more, “Country,” by the Irish actor and author Michael Hughes, is a propulsive, blood-flecked homage to the “Iliad” told against the backdrop of a fragile truce in 1996. Love and War in European Fiction 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

In 1999, officials at the National Archives commissioned Barrett to fabricate paper on which to lay the fragile parchment originals of the U.S. Can a Papermaker Help to Save Civilization? 2012-02-17T21:39:00Z

They are too fragile to return to view, but they will be featured in an upcoming book, Johnson said. The beloved murals at Natural History Museum are coming back 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

"The average person is left wondering why we are spending billions of dollars to build and maintain these fragile habitats," he writes on the site. The final frontier? Trillion-dollar plan to build Starship Enterprise 2012-06-01T15:50:45Z

The influx of tourism only serves to complicate Polonio’s already fragile existence. T Magazine: The Coast of Utopia 2011-09-30T14:00:14Z

The one labeled “fragile” contained the culmination of his life’s work. Could a mask maker’s quest to see the Dalai Lama bring about world peace? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Because all on its own, Norment’s ringing and vibrating sound system lets us experience a fragile interdependence of bodies and environments. Camille Norment Explores New Sonic Terrains at Dia Chelsea 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

That said, I have two important exceptions: The first are old, fragile wines, especially those that are rare and expensive. How to Pair Food and Wine 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

Gary and the doctors agreed that she was too fragile for corrective surgery. African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s. Why? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

But the diary reveals her growing frustration at K’s fragile health and E’s subsequent continual stalling. The love at the heart of our family’s wartime secret 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

Its fine-lined architecture suggests some ethereal form of basketry, porous, fragile. Art Review: ‘Chinese Gardens,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-08-16T21:59:52Z

The year before, on Christmas Eve, she had witnessed someone suffer a seizure at a gas station, which made her “realize how unpredictable and fragile life is,” she said. At Coachella, Connecting on a Deeper Level 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Some women, in my experience, will even defer to a man's pronouncements on a subject when he's clearly wrong, if only to avoid denting his fragile ego in public. Tim Dowling's guide to long-term love 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

“In this time, we give renewed value to our roots, our grannies and grandpas, the most fragile elements of this whole horrible attack.” We’re Holding Tight to Our Good Luck Talismans 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

But the overall tone is heartfelt and determined, as Takako, visiting the small handful of her former kindergarten students who survived, encounters both unbearable sadness and fragile optimism. | 'Children of Hiroshima': Japanese Survivors Shaded by Puzzlement and Sorrow 2011-04-21T23:19:01Z

It seemed to express the savory, fragile essence of manzanilla, demonstrating that fortifying the wine — adding neutral spirit to raise the alcohol level to 15 percent or more — was unnecessary. 2021 Seen Through 12 Unforgettable Wines 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

I learned how fragile boys are despite their heroic efforts to hide from that reality. Motherlode: A Mother's Right to Drive 2011-06-21T16:41:43Z

In 2019, the island is both fragile and full of hope. St. Patrick’s Day on Montserrat 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Studio footage illustrates Cave's relationship with the song he is writing, which he describes as "this living, breathing thing that is extremely fragile and can die very easily" if it is over-rehearsed. Monster or god? Nick Cave explores rock performance in new film 2014-02-11T17:11:21Z

Her creations capture the fragile human condition in glass and other materials. Art Rooted in Nature Blooms at TEFAF 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

A massive coral bleaching event fueled by the warming ocean further threatened the already fragile Great Barrier Reef. Post-fire Australia will provide travelers with more opportunities for ‘restorative tourism’ 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

"It's a drunken soccer punch, it's a fragile fist across the chin/ And I'm laughing at all the trouble this will get you in," Weiss sings with the right amount of subtlety. 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z

He insisted it was "fragile and poignant evidence" of human life 8,000 years ago. TV review: Madagascar; Romancing the Stone; A History of Ancient Britain 2011-02-10T08:00:01Z

By contrast, the role of Little Michael makes the adult seem more fragile and more bizarre. ‘MJ’: Dancing the Pain, and Dancing the Pain Away 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Knox’s sound, warm and round in the low register, clear and precise in high passagework, rose uncontested over the garden — until her fragile, citrusy last note was cut off by a car horn. New Juilliard Performs Contemporary Music at Summergarden 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

It appealed to the most fragile part of me, the me that longed to be at the heart of things. Emily Woof 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z

You can even turn a fragile fish fillet on the grill. 5 reasons you absolutely need a bench scraper in your kitchen 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

Lemoine’s descriptions are embroidered and sensory, delivering exquisite details such as the father’s “warm, fragile skin … like touching the hands of an old woman.” Debut Novels Reveal the Fragility of Female Bonds 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

And like a butterfly wing, that talent was fragile; it would soon be marred, then lost and unrecoverable. Stage Marathon: Is Seven Hours of The Great Gatsby Too Much? 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

Veronese’s work apparently was still “too fragile” to travel, though French conservators later managed to move it from its regular location in the Louvre twice, when the nation was at war, in 1870 and 1939. Happy Birthday to the Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa and Took It to Italy 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

A few days in western South Dakota showed how a fragile arts scene has thrived recently with the aid of state and federal arts and humanities grants. A Red State’s Arts Blues 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

A seemingly immutable feature of the landscape, they are actually fragile, their soft clay prone to erosion. White Cliffs of Dover get writer in residence 2012-08-20T14:11:08Z

They’re often needy, fragile and infirm, perhaps a thorn in the protagonist’s side or maybe just cooking dinner for everyone. Harrison Ford doesn’t belong in a museum: Indiana Jones in his 70s is exactly the hero we need 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

There were seemingly more than a few newbies inside a packed Central Saloon, when Portland’s Black Belt Eagle Scout delivered her fragile indie-rock tunes to an early Sunday crowd. Upstream Music Fest’s strong Northwest identity outshines thorny new Seattle backdrop 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

The 16-year-old Samuel Brightmon, who took a random bullet as he was walking home with a classmate, was a fragile “homebody.” Review: ‘Another Day in the Death of America,’ on Guns Killing Children 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Quarantines are a severe but necessary infringement on our liberties, and they test a fragile, odious but essential clause of the basic social contract: Our willingness to submit, on occasion, to authority. Perspective | A rabies scare gave me a crash course in how to stay sane 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Her Rivkeh, the battleground for the war between father and son, makes a convincingly fragile anchor. Theater Review: ‘My Name Is Asher Lev,’ at the Westside Theater 2012-12-05T04:57:17Z

And all those musicians also help support an extensive but fragile ecosystem of managers, agents, concert presenters and halls, all of whom depend on performances for their livelihoods. A String Quartet Is Crushed by the Coronavirus 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

His composing credits are short but diverse, from the genre-hopping quirkiness of “The Big Short” to the fragile violin and piano music for “Moonlight.” From hedge fund manager to Oscar nominee: Meet Nicholas Britell, the composer of 'Moonlight' 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

When the condition of the horses was checked – "by shining a light up their bottoms," project leader Karen Whitting explained – many proved perilously fragile, far too weak to carry a king. Tower of London's Line of Kings continues 400-year-old narrative 2013-07-07T14:40:26Z

From another angle the legs seem almost fragile. Architecture Review: Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing 2011-07-12T12:26:40Z

Second, these girls tend to be more fragile than the preceding generation of “grrls” in suspense fiction who were shaped by the fiercer ethos of third-wave feminism. What ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘The Girl on the Train’ have wrought 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

He crouches and climbs a footstool to cradle them with his hands, as if they were as fragile as bird’s eggs, infinitely precious to him and to us. | 'It?s Always Right Now, Until It?s Later': ?It?s Always Right Now, Until It?s Later? - Review 2012-01-09T03:01:00Z

Mass gatherings are intrinsically fragile but relatively stable things. Perspective | The Astroworld tragedy is impossible to understand, even if you’ve spent a lifetime in crowds 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

As King and Mother frequently remind their daughters, women’s bodies are inherently fragile and vulnerable to corruption. Three Sisters, an Island and an Apocalyptic Tale of Survival 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

This construction is fragile by nature — fragility exacerbated by the extreme climate and the fact that visitors are free to roam and climb. Will Salvation Mountain find its savior? The quest to save the desert folk-art landmark 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Christian’s psyche is so fragile that every shadow that crosses Ana’s face creates the panic that she doesn’t love him anymore. Review | E.L. James’s Fifty Shades series has come to an end. What have we learned from this provocative romance? 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

“Petite women are all too often viewed as weak, fragile, delicate, even childlike,” Ms. Dahlman wrote in an e-mail interview. Noticed: The New Power of Petite Women 2010-06-25T21:44:00Z

“The painting had not been restored and it was really very fragile, nearly a ruin,” he explained in a phone interview. It Might Have Been a Masterpiece, but Now It’s a Cautionary Tale 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

It's as fine as mist, as fragile and apparently insubstantial as thought. Artist of the week 194: Jessica Rankin 2012-06-15T15:38:31Z

Like so much of this work, these pieces evoke natural phenomena that are both formidable and fragile. Review | In the galleries: Myths and respite at the American University museum 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

An artfully crafted piece with a fragile, wonderfully English lyric that conjures dark and surreal images for the listener. My favourite Beatles song: A Day in the Life 2013-03-05T10:39:21Z

If he really remembered all the bad parts, particularly the horrible divorce, our present fragile friendship might shatter. Replaying the Past, to a New Soundtrack 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

David Letterman is one of the greatest entertainers in the history of television, but his legacy is more fragile than you may think. David Letterman’s Unlikely Archivist 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

His high school valedictorian speech was about space: how to colonize planets, build space hotels and save our fragile planet. In This Space Race, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk Are Competing to Take You There 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

At that time, Rae said, “I was creatively broken and very fragile and didn’t have the confidence in my voice.” Larry Wilmore Doesn’t Miss Late Night, but He’s Back Anyway 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Credibility is a politician's most precious, and most fragile, asset. U-turn on fuel duty? Osborne sends in a woman to take the Paxman flak 2012-06-27T12:30:56Z

Iris, imbued by Brosnahan with a fragile strength and perfect comic timing, works as a waitress while scheming to break into the theater. Review: ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,’ Uneven Yet a Powerful Draw 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

A high trumpet, singing very sweet, played by a funny, shrewd, grouchy, fatherly, fragile man, who has to keep playing. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z

You just need to be honest with yourself, with him and about what a “happily ever after” looks like now: lumpy and fragile and not always in your control. Carolyn Hax: After affair, the only thing certain for wife’s 25-year marriage is change 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

“I never see myself as that fragile, and I don’t believe Belinda does.” Danny McBride’s New Mission: Setting Off Sparks in the Faculty Lounge 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

Many of these companies say in the fine print not to keep jewelry, cash or other important and fragile items in your bags as they are not covered by the insurance policies. Check-in Time Hours Away? How to Ditch Those Annoying Bags 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

“Nude” was the key word on the program — and backstage, the designer, greeting clients and celebrities, said that he was looking for something “fragile.” Fashion Review: Bold or Subtle, Skin Is In 2013-07-03T17:26:27Z

“The ski world and the scuba world — and couture,” said Mr. Tisci, the latter comment explaining his insertion of fragile lace dresses and twinkling red accessories. Special Report: Red Carpet Fading Away 2010-03-08T18:30:00Z

But such work is fragile, difficult to preserve. With MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, this 70-year-old choreographer has big plans for the future 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Perfect, her second, is set in 1972, when 10-year-old Byron plots and plans to protect his fragile mother from the catastrophic reverberations of an accident. Rachel Joyce: 'I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things' 2013-07-06T14:00:01Z

She also carries herself with great, fragile grace and, in so doing, further draws us to her side. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z

It’s quite fragile work, using a knife to do that.” Possessed: Christian Liaigre Is a Minimalist With a Taste for Ornate Coconuts 2012-10-19T23:12:24Z

But Mr. Douglas’s film transposes the story to Portugal in the “Hot Summer” of 1975, in the politically fragile days after that country’s dictatorship fell. Stan Douglas’s ‘The Secret Agent’ Offers a Refracted Vision of History and Terrorism 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

Here is the quote: “I translated it carefully and with great caution as if it were something fragile that I might mistakenly break or kill.” Maggie Gyllenhaal Has Dangerous Ideas About Directing 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Oysters aren’t fragile — they’ve been around for 200 million years, first feeding prehistoric marine lizards and, eventually, the original Homo sapiens. The oyster is your world: The little aphrodisiac that could save our shores, clean our waters and much more 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

These moments expose the true — and sometimes fragile — nature of the characters. "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" shows off Quentin Tarantino's best and worst moves 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

As Nicole grows ever stronger, her world expanding, her voice becoming louder and more confident, Charlie is ever quieter and more fragile. Noah Baumbach: ‘Marriage Story illustrates that to take sides is folly’ 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

They both project a sense of strength, ruthlessness, and control — especially for a fragile character with trauma. "It's a quiet revolt": Filmmaker on how "The Last Tree" moves between Black and white spaces 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

But his health is fragile, and Annie’s concern about him creates a terrible misunderstanding. Books of The Times: ‘News From Heaven’ by Jennifer Haigh 2013-01-27T21:04:33Z

That is painstaking work when the vines are fragile and vigorous. What’s all this rain doing to the 2018 vintage? 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

You can’t say the same thing about the prospect of watching a tiny, fragile and misshapen person receive his sexual initiation, however much sympathy you might feel for his situation. “The Sessions”: An unlikely, certain-to-be Oscar-bound sex fable 2012-10-19T17:02:00Z

The longer you look, the more numerous and deeper the cracks appear, making the impeccable image that Alice presents to the world seem concerningly, precariously fragile. ‘Alice, Darling’ Review: That’s What Friends Are For 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

But Ben Whishaw’s flighty, fragile Norman Scott was a rich wonder, and it elevated the already great A Very English Scandal even further. Golden Globes 2019: who will win – and who should win – the TV categories 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Life thereafter feels, as Albee surely intended, more fragile. Who is Sylvia? 'Goat' manages to connect to a tricky beast 2011-04-05T13:48:40Z

Ms. Winehouse may seem a strange symbol for couture, but like her, couture is fragile, rare, free-spirited, ornery — and when it’s gone, it’s gone. Fashion Review: Haute Couture: The Fine Line 2012-01-25T22:09:21Z

Even the most modest garden, thus, is a fragile and fleeting thing, and if neglected for years rather than just weeks, it submits wholly to the forces of nature. An artist captures the ‘ghost voices’ of abandoned houses 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

"And then bringing in the role of daughter really helped me to understand both of those things. It made me aware that those parts of her are so fragile." Emmys 2014: 'Scandal's' Kerry Washington sees phone activity take off 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The whole thing was so fragile, it felt like a dream. Pulp fiction: bringing pop-up paper theatre to life 2013-07-03T14:45:45Z

Few initially thought the war would reach so far west, but one missile landed about 200 meters from one of the institution’s castles, with a fragile collection of Chinese and Japanese ceramics on its premises. Rescuing Art in Ukraine with Foam, Crates and Cries for Help 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z

As Dr. Noriko Mizuta, the chancellor of Japan’s Jōsai University and a scholar of Japanese modern poetry, puts it, “Here was a woman, fragile physically, who stood up alone, communicating with the universe.” The Startling Poetry of a Nearly Forgotten Japanese Modernist 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

This sense of experimentation — coupled with her fascination with placing the human form in elusively symbolic narratives — led to these fierce yet fragile figures in the prints. Art review: Warashina works show women on the edge of ... you decide 2010-05-27T20:20:00Z

There are averages for things like tissue depth, and ways to estimate a nose if the telltale but fragile bony bits nearby are gone. How a forensic artist attempted to re-create the face of a Black Civil War soldier 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

If something off-key occurs, so long as you haven’t spent a fortune on the wine or opened a fragile bottle, chalk it up to experience and open a different bottle. How to Pair Food and Wine 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

Many of those invested in the islands, from biologists to travel operators, say the human pressure on the islands’ fragile ecosystem is unprecedented. Sharp Increase in Visitor Park Fees Proposed for the Galápagos 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Finally, we need to protect our coastal zones, with their mangrove swamps and fragile banks of sands. Callum Roberts: if seas are to survive, we need a New Deal for the Oceans 2012-06-02T23:05:35Z

The unkind comment laid waste to Shaw’s fragile self-esteem; he walked away from the wreckage determined to become even more shredded. Gym, eat, repeat: the shocking rise of muscle dysmorphia 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

Yet the subjects, whose stories are told in text and video, don’t appear fragile. Review | In the galleries: More than just selfies, more than just photos 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

“They told me that he was too fragile and it was too much trouble to move all the equipment. Bonding, love and warmth had no value to them.” Should women really be rushing back to work after giving birth? 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

It possesses a fragile/sublime soulfulness that is completely out of step with the raging punk rock coming out of nearby Spokane at the same time. Light in the Attic 10 year show: Rodriguez, Donnie & Joe 2012-08-08T16:43:15Z

Daddy never loved her, you see, preferring her sister, Iris, an altogether less fragile creature who is working as a hostess in some seedy lower Manhattan hotel. Constance by Patrick McGrath – review 2013-05-18T12:59:01Z

It is all vividly and hauntingly realised, building to a bittersweet wedding ceremony they conduct and a fragile reconciliation. Bonnie and Clyde 2010-10-11T21:16:00Z

It was far too limpid, mercurial and seemingly fragile, a complex whisper when other bands were gnashing and barking. Playlist : Music by Wild Flag, Lindsey Buckingham and the Raincoats 2011-09-10T00:08:45Z

The daughter of Jewish immigrants from Poland, Ms. Bruckner grew up surrounded by what she once called “transplanted and fragile people, an unhappy brood.” Anita Brookner, British Art Historian and Novelist, Dies at 87 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

He spoke of them lovingly, as if each one were a fragile child with huge potential in search of a good home. Critical Shopper: A Step in the Smart Direction 2010-09-16T03:50:00Z

Scientists warn that the rise in tourism also increases the risk of disrupting the fragile environment. Tourism in Antarctica: Edging Toward the (Risky) Mainstream 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

For the opera to weave its fragile spell, it needs vocally and dramatically charismatic performers, and the Met production met that test in the three key roles. Simon Rattle leads 'Pelleas' in Met debut 2010-12-18T18:31:05Z

Diana, fragile when she arrives at Sandringham — and the subject of much “concern” from the Windsors, spirals toward a breakdown over the next 72 hours. ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

"The birth of Holly Golightly in the truest sense started with how she looks," says the actress, who says she plays Golightly as a fragile woman playing in dangerous waters. Why Bway's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' has no tiaras 2013-03-19T16:16:05Z

Langston Hughes, dreamy and endearing, has the forehead of an Egyptian monument, while Countee Cullen, only 22 but already a famous poet himself, squints with a young man’s fragile self-importance. Winold Reiss, an Immigrant Modernist Way Ahead of His Time 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

It was not until Will's wife was expecting their first baby that they woke up to what fragile X, a hereditary condition, might mean and were horrified by their ignorance. One fan's mission to Lars 2012-06-02T22:01:47Z

Along with the daily activations, one empty bay will be filled over the course of the show by more fragile specimens from the Calder Foundation, making one-day guest appearances. When It Comes to Calder, the Same Piece Is Always Different 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

It’s never been less fragile, and with this MoMA survey, which opens on Sunday, April 30, one of its most astute critics becomes one of the season’s brightest stars. ‘Why Pictures Now’: Louise Lawler’s Examination of the Art World Comes to MoMA 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

But he noted that the disease is striking in one of the world’s poorest regions, where public health systems are already fragile. Doctors Without Borders: Ebola ‘out of control’ in W. Africa 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Jackson returns as the fragile Elijah Price, also known as Mr Glass. Director M. Night Shyamalan merges past storylines in new movie... 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

Photographs seem at once durable and fragile, trivial and powerful, and contemplation of their place in the world leads naturally to musings on loss, mortality — even apocalypse. Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z

Next to them was something tattered and fragile: an edition of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” bound in green, grasslike burlap. Book World: A burst pipe, soggy tomes and a lesson in the economy of Nature 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

It is lying here on the table where my laptop is propped, brown-black and glossy, dense as stone and yet fragile enough to shatter if dropped. Virginia’s Lost History 2012-11-22T18:48:32Z

The decline in subscribers is upending the already fragile economics of opera, changing how companies operate and what they program. Opera Has a Problem: Fans Aren’t Subscribing 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

To my mind, Stevens treated his shy, psychologically fragile wife badly. Who was Wallace Stevens? A new biography looks at the man and his work. 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

In those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends, and family, coworkers and then gradually, proudly, to everyone who knew her. Jodie Foster 'comes out' in opaque Golden Globes speech 2013-01-14T05:23:00Z

Peace is so fragile and precious — we should never take it for granted. A trendy Tannenbaum: German ambassador’s residence blends Old World traditions with modern digs 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

In the biographies Eyssen read while developing the show, she said, Elisabeth’s character is portrayed as “difficult, fragile, almost bipolar, melancholic.” An Empress Ahead of Her Time Is Having a Pop Culture Moment 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Eschewing debt makes states just as fragile as having too much of it. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z

“Temporary Kings,” the debut album from saxophonist Mark Turner and pianist Ethan Iverson, finds these two quiet killers immersed in a deep, fragile, highly focused form of play. Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson’s jazz? It sounds like Stravinsky and the blues 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

I always thought it would happen, but it was a matter of getting the political will, and the cooperation of all the National Galleries institutions, in a fragile economic time.” Art: New Beacon of Scotland's Identity 2011-12-17T08:00:10Z

She cares for her in-laws, one of whom is fragile and diabetic. Review: In ‘The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma,’ a Search for Release 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Obviously every "Housewives" spinoff needs a few bad seeds to create chaos among these ultimately fragile, insecure, undomesticated wildebeests. "Real Housewives of D.C.": Meet the new frenemies 2010-07-31T23:01:00Z

Not long after his death my mother asked me why Anthony couldn’t just muddle through like the rest of us, why he was so fragile. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z

This second Zoom play — and sixth in the Apple Family series by its author-director — finds the Apples in early July 2020, in fragile states. Perspective | These works by Richard Nelson and Lorraine Hansberry are some of the best plays online now 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

“I don’t think the war brought anything good to anyone. This was especially true for the field of culture, which is the most fragile of all public domains,” Krstic said, speaking by phone from Belgrade. Belgrade Philharmonic, 91 years old, to play Strathmore on first U.S. tour

In the Imereti region of Georgia, its crisp young shoots are gathered in spring, before their thorns sharpen, when they’re as skinny and fragile as first asparagus, and pickled to last. Georgian Rarities, Served Without Fanfare, at Chama Mama 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

No, you can’t wander around and look and touch — the glass is fragile, the metal has rusted. Go for the weird: 4 oddball attractions in Las Vegas 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

She looked fragile, unlike her, as she is always so very strong. Our beautiful sons could die before us 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

The results were neither as fun nor as fragile as the originals. Bert Stern 2013-06-30T15:44:49Z

Ryan Lewis, his producer, adds the fragile strings and moody beats that make tracks like “Fallin’ ” and the duo’s breakthrough single, “Same Love,” pop crossover curiosities. Pop Music Listings for May 16-22 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Americans are prone to preserving such mundane and fragile — yet powerful — oddities, and then giving them to museums for public enjoyment, Mr. Bird said in a phone interview. Antiques: Cakes for Celebrities, Coveted by Collectors 2013-05-09T19:36:12Z

Using real ingredients is not only more expensive, it’s often ineffective, since Mother Nature’s volatile and fragile flavors often don’t fare well during journeys through the assembly line. “Modern chicken has no flavor” — let’s make it in a lab 2013-03-17T16:00:00Z

Then came the most famous knock on a door in all of opera, as Mimì, the fragile, doomed seamstress, arrived to ask the poet Rodolfo to light her candle. 24 Years Later, Roberto Alagna Steps Back Into ‘Bohème’ at the Met 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Still, the film nicely captures the grad-student vibe: beer-fueled bull sessions about science, religion, probability and destiny; fragile, self-absorbed egos preening even as confidence wavers. | 'Watching TV With the Red Chinese': Gillian Jacobs in ?Watching TV With the Red Chinese? ? Review 2012-01-20T01:46:56Z

Now, conservationists are concerned that photographers who geotag their precise locations are putting fragile ecosystems and wild animals at risk. Is Geotagging on Instagram Ruining Natural Wonders? Some Say Yes 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

It is a measure of the Folio’s importance, though, that its valuable ashes were considered too fragile to travel. Exhibition Review: Shakespeare Folios as Venerated Relics 2011-07-07T12:01:10Z

There is a character at work here: His rapport is winning, his routines are confident and he’s great at generating anticipation, yet his ego is as fragile as fine glass. Review | Dramatic tricks abound in new ‘Magic Play’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

I realized that most people are not going to be able to visit; it’s too fragile for that. Magic Shows and Inner Beauty 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

Like many Black women, Sanders faces the extraordinary challenge of climbing the professional ladder while navigating fragile egos. She’s chasing a Washington dream. He’s the Night Mayor. 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

Sabit's humiliation "implied that Afghanistan was dangerously fragile — not because the Taliban was so strong but because the government was so weak," Barker writes. 'The Taliban Shuffle' more relevant with bin Laden death 2011-05-06T19:32:00Z

Morita's movies were distinctly Japanese, depicting the fragile beauty of the nation's human psyche and visual landscape while daringly poking fun at its ridiculous tendency for rigid bureaucracy and ritualistic hierarchy. Award-winning Japanese director Morita dead at 61 2011-12-21T12:00:11Z

Lost amid those strange faces, our hero phrased her lines with a fragile grace: "Each heart-string of mine is broken in time/ When I think of my dear ones at home." Cold Specks surveys the ages during confident Echo set 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

So are Hitler's Brownshirts and the Moscow-directed Red Front Fighters, brawling with one another and dealing whatever blows they can against the fragile democracy of the Weimar Republic. 'The Informer': Author Craig Nova takes a turn through pre-World War II Berlin 2010-03-24T23:35:00Z

Being a parent is an inherently fragile business, given the permanent possibility of something going disastrously wrong. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z

But Kate admits: "I have often wondered if fragile X made me internally anxious about settling down and having a child." One fan's mission to Lars 2012-06-02T22:01:47Z

His first solo show in New York follows exhibitions in Los Angeles and London, and introduces a sensibility that is consistent with his heart-rending songs and warbling delivery: fragile, falling apart but surviving, even defiant. Art in Review: ‘I Am the Magic Hand’ and Antony: ‘The Cut’ 2013-06-27T20:04:50Z

And oh how fragile are these finest of vessels? One Wine Glass to Rule Them All 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

A guide escorts you through displays of fragile dishes, birdhouses, and music boxes and into the manufacturing area. 48 Hours in Louisville 2010-05-15T00:07:00Z

The manly, capable, wounded older brother — sometimes missing an arm rather than a leg — is a recurring character, often contrasted with a more introverted, psychologically fragile younger sibling. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Here, a singer who describes herself as half Brazilian and half Indian sings the final, moving song about the degradation of the Amazon's fragile environment. Gilberto Gil takes roadtrip to find musical origins in "Viramundo" 2013-04-22T10:06:27Z

Alienated and fragile, he begins to morph into Joker, unwillingly inspiring others in a fractured and violent Gotham. Villain in Venice: Joaquin Phoenix goes from tragic to comic in... 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

They refused to repatriate the monumental canvas, cautioning that it was too fragile to make the return trip. Happy Birthday to the Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa and Took It to Italy 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Compatibility, especially in adulthood, is a subtle, fragile and sometimes complicated thing. Ask Alanis Morissette: I have no friends – what’s wrong with me? 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

"Horses are both very powerful and very fragile," says Harris. Author Jana Harris talks horse sense 2012-01-23T02:31:43Z

The Duchess of Cambridge was scarcely guilty of hypocrisy or illegality in throwing up during a treacherous and fragile stage of pregnancy. Australian hoax DJs: where do you draw the line with on-air pranks? 2012-12-10T16:56:05Z

As I pushed them away, I felt the sublime warmth of his fragile skin seeping into my body. How Do You Know When It’s Time to Break Up? 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams’ classic drama about a struggling writer, his domineering mother, fragile sister and a gentleman caller. L.A. theater openings, April 5-12: 'I and You' and more 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Marriages often appear more fragile from the outside looking in, possibly because the daily exertion of staying married entails wildly different calisthenics from couple to couple. For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

That the "Eroica" is personal to the Bolívars goes without saying, especially now when the Bolívarian revolution in Venezuela appears to be fragile, what with the nation's political discontent and economic chaos. Gustavo Dudamel and Bolivar symphony bring Beethoven's revolutionary conviction out in force 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

Kuhn heart-rendingly describes the letter in which Cage conveyed the news to Cunningham as “fragile and … cut up into small pieces, some of which, folded, have over time broken in two.” The World of Dance in Letters, Locations and Clothes 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

Cynics may scoff, but for earnest seekers, it’s a truly heartening sign of faith in art’s indispensable if fragile power to transform our world. Review: Robert Irwin Shows a Calming Installation at Dia:Beacon 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

It was a fragile era for the nation, where citizens lived day to day with an understandable skepticism about the future. The Real Legacy of Orson Welles’ ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast 2013-10-31T09:45:05Z

Ever the master of black feminist poetics, Lorde was also a sage who knew how to reframe fragile arguments into teachable observations. A Memoir of Black Life in the ‘Other America’ 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

In this fractious, fragile era — during the last years of the Revolution, just before the installation of the Republic — interior decoration reflected both the near past and the imminent future. In His Paris Apartment, Alexis Mabille Creates a Singular Universe 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

The entertainment industry’s pull on fragile young hopefuls from across the world adds to this combustible social mix. Gus Van Sant’s Next Picture Will Be a Watercolor 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

The remnants evoke parts of the self that are left behind as we move and change — but the artist reclaims those bits and pieces here, turning them into something new, fragile, and beautiful. From the Wreckage of Caribbean Migration, a New Kind of Beauty 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

But the greatest danger might seem to be for the models carrying the weight of the fabrics on their fragile shoulders, with their feet in high-heeled shoes decorated to the hilt. Fashion Review: Dries Van Noten: Optical Illusion 2014-02-26T19:28:00Z

“It was just a tiny thing, as fragile and powdery as an emu egg,” Irene says. Review | Peter Carey’s new novel is a strange ride through Australia’s racist past — and present 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

She tells Chau the ordeal has made her feel “fragile and strong; wary but also brave”. Shock art: can grossing people out be considered an art form? 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

“It’s a fragile ecosystem, this label,” he says. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Now that the most precious and fragile works have been placed there, the renovation on the actual museum can start and will last through 2017. Antwerp puts big, bold Rubens works into hiding 2013-04-05T10:26:09Z

Italian heritage group Our Italy tried to block the loan, saying the drawing was too fragile to be moved. Louvre exhibit acclaims Da Vinci, 500 years after his death 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

He did so not as an empty riff but as a “gloriously compound blasphemy” meant to poke fun at “stuffy record-collector types and fragile Ian Curtis worshipers.” How Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ image went from underground album cover to a piece of cultural ubiquity 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

In Pin’s world, girls are fragile, vulnerable, under attack and powerless to defend themselves. Review | Disguised as a boy, the heroine of ‘Curious Toys’ finds freedom — and answers 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

So it is with Treasured, a little, fragile thing that is as gentle as a morning breeze. Treasured 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z

His mummy was too fragile to travel, but his clothes are arrayed in a coffinlike space and reflected in a tilted mirror. Exhibition Review: Another Stop on a Long, Improbable Journey 2011-02-20T21:00:36Z

The long rhapsodic build of Oliver Knussen’s “Reflection,” one of Knussen’s last works before his death in 2018, cast multiple violin personalities — fragile, pure, guttural — often jostling them together in a single phrase. Review | Leila Josefowicz presents the violin, unfiltered, in Library of Congress recital 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

Although magnolia leaves are unusually durable, they appear poignantly fragile inside such enclosures. Review | In the galleries: A focus on sensitive portraits with biographical elements 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

It was a sad reminder of the fragile mortality and the collective tragedy in which our characters live. The Walking Dead Watch: “Indifference” 2013-11-04T03:00:01Z

For a start, physical remains are fragile, even the recalcitrant, mossy stones of which most of our Roman British remains consist. Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, by Charlotte Higgins – review 2013-07-24T10:06:01Z

Levant would crack wise to Paar about his hospitalizations, the prescriptions he was taking or abusing, and the fragile state of his mental health. To Become Oscar Levant, Sean Hayes Revisited His First Role 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

He thought her too thin and fragile for the part, although she could ride well. Elizabeth Taylor obituary 2011-03-23T14:01:48Z

Though the tale grows more sordid, Davee approaches it as a phenomenon of extreme human experience erupting against a fragile, frontier civility. 'How the Fire Fell': Oregon family descends into madness 2012-01-26T21:14:04Z

Fleetwood Mac's ability to find gorgeous, fragile beauty in even dark days is also extremely relatable. Why Fleetwood Mac's music resonated so deeply in 2020 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

The power of this documentary resides in that proud and fragile sentiment. 'Lost Bohemia': Memories of studios above Carnegie Hall play on 2012-06-21T20:23:07Z

On stage, Scofield is both severe and fragile, embodying a sort of refined ferocity. zoe | juniper duo promises more wizardry at On the Boards show 2014-03-19T18:53:49Z

They are so fragile yet inspiring today, as violence batters much of the region. Exploring Jordan’s cultural fusion 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

It aims to capture not just the familiar grandeur but also some of the fragile idiosyncrasies of the between-lands, as an argument for leaving them alone. The Grand Canyon Needs to Be Saved By Every Generation 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

And for Cash, who in his last years drew a new audience with a set of stark and fragile recordings, the poems present yet another look at a legend of American music. Johnny Cash, the Poet in Black 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

It’s broader and less fragile than a Mosel riesling yet not at all heavy or overbearing. 12 Wines for Thanksgiving and Beyond 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Unlike in film, worlds created on stage are too fragile for us to invest in their being threatened. Disasters on stage: why can't theatre hit mankind where it hurts? 2011-02-03T15:08:08Z

Producers say the new state law means expenses for many small theaters will climb steeply at an exceptionally fragile moment for the industry. Emerging From Covid, Small Theaters in Los Angeles Face a New Challenge 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

“It will help future generations understand how fragile democracy is, and certainly was that day.” The debris of Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol now belongs to history 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

"No one is more dangerous than a man with a fragile ego," he'd say. Tyre Nichols and American traditions: How do we give kids "The Talk" about police now? 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

The organisation believes that tools such as Google’s Trekker technology are valuable, particularly in terms of sustainable tourism, by documenting properties too fragile to be opened to the wider public. Do Machu Picchu from your sofa, thanks to Google Street View 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

What that schism is, Marvel was mum, but it involves the fragile and frayed relationship between two of the best known X-Men, Cyclops and Wolverine. APNewsBreak: Marvel's Uncanny X-Men ending in Oct. 2011-06-09T07:06:11Z

But with today’s operatic ecosystem fragile, even strong-willed impresarios are loath to antagonize the few remaining major stars. Jonas Kaufmann: A Tenor in Demand, Now in Short Supply 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Because my mental state, when I’m getting ready for a climb, is such a fragile thing, you don’t want the camera crew bursting into tears every time they see you. Alex Honnold: ‘There are many places where you can fall to your death’ 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Torchwood shows how fragile the bonds we pass off as civilisation really are. Torchwood: Miracle Day ? episode six 2011-08-13T05:00:00Z

When the elder professor is accidentally informed he's won an honor intended for his son, the son scrambles to keep his father, whose ego is both fierce and fragile, from finding out about the mistake. Critics Picks: 'Footnote,' 'Paul McCartney's Live Kisses,' dogshaming.com 2012-08-29T22:37:03Z

Herein lies another trick in making sheer look modern: playing light against heavy; fragile against bold. T Magazine: Sheer Luck 2012-11-21T16:00:00Z

They all know a line of hopefuls waits to take the job they’ll forfeit if they prove to be too difficult, or too fragile. Perspective | Why this is the moment for dancers to behave badly 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

“What I discovered as a child was that, God, democracy is fragile,” he told The Calgary Herald in 1992. Raymond Moriyama, Designer of Humane Public Spaces, Dies at 93 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z

With what seems like shocking rapidity — the film’s chronology is appropriately fuzzy — Alice slides from a witty, intelligent, capable adult into a fragile and confused shadow of her former self. In ‘Still Alice,’ a Professor Slides Into Alzheimer’s 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Poems like Ms. Romo’s point to new myths, just as capacious and fragile as the actual West, despite its tortured history. Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

What you remember may not be pictures or ideas so much as his voice, roughened by age and tobacco, fragile but still hectoring, melancholy and indomitable. ‘The Image Book’ Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

The midwives dressed him because he was fragile and we hugged and kissed and talked to him. Pushed to the limit: six birth stories from around the world 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

Those efforts include war games that simulate battles on archaeological sites and decks of “cultural heritage awareness playing cards” that introduce soldiers to the fragile ruins and relics they may encounter. ArtsBeat: Cultural Preservation Groups Ask Obama to Protect Syrian Heritage Sites 2013-09-11T21:23:55Z

Mary Poppins would not tolerate the histrionics of a fragile toxic masculinity raging against the notion that sometimes, one must be held accountable for one’s actions. Mary Poppins can’t return fast enough: An adult in the room is the best fantasy of 2018 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Sandino Martin, the 21-year-old who plays David, consulted a psychiatrist for help on how to portray his character's fragile state, and spent time at a high school to see how 15-year-olds used the Internet. Filipino film highlights dangerous power of social media 2014-02-09T17:12:41Z

Spare to the point of vanishing, his works suspend fragile harmonies above stretches of percussive rustling and spells of silence. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

THE GALAPAGOS: Ecuador heavily regulates tourism in the Galapagos as part of its environmental conservation policies, but Fodor’s says the islands’ fragile ecosystems remain vulnerable. Here’s where NOT to go in 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

And the juxtaposition of a ’60s Hollywood theme song sung by a chorus with this disarming wisp of a movie momentarily breaks the film’s fragile spell. Movie Review: In ‘Crystal Fairy,’ Young U.S.Tourists Aim for the Mystical 2013-07-11T19:35:45Z

Strong gives a remarkable performance as an extremely fragile and isolated figure. The Second Season of “Succession” Digs Into the Characters’ Self-Loathing 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

"No-shows are a nuisance at the best of times but, with businesses still so fragile, their impacts would be hugely compounded," Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UK hospitality, told The Sun. Some restaurants in England are asking customers to pay before they eat when indoor dining returns 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

For more than four decades, the painting sat out of view, and almost totally unviewable, covered in what looked like a pie crust of protective paper to shield its fragile surface. Bringing Giorgio Vasari’s ‘The Last Supper’ Back to Life 2013-12-22T21:13:08Z

The Mendelian laws of inheritance — what most people study in school today — are not just “exquisitely fragile” but “regularly broken.” In an Age of Gene Editing and Surrogacy, What Does Heredity Mean? 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Ms. Vishneva, in her most fragile mode, seems to enact the maiden of Schubert’s music who learns that death, at first terrifying, may also bring a calm embrace. Dance Review: ?Diana Vishneva: Dialogues,? at City Center 2012-03-18T22:17:06Z

When he's not counseling fragile clients, Jimmy is barely holding it together. The therapeutic benefits of "Shrinking" is not necessarily in its shaky depiction of counseling 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

In “Framing Time,” part of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, Gelabert, a choreographer and performer based in Barcelona, Spain, physically channels that fragile imagery and responds to Feldman’s score with equally subdued gestures and movement. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

And he might as well be a porcelain figurine — exquisite, immobile, infinitely fragile. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z

That spirit of flux has persisted across several generations and now seems part of the institution’s identity—although, in the fragile sphere of the performing arts, nothing can be considered permanent. How the L.A. Phil Can Stay on Top of the Orchestra World 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Like every second of this show, it is fragile and intangible. The Moment I Saw You I Knew I Could Love You 2010-03-21T19:51:00Z

This “seemingly endless loop of government payouts,” he writes, keep developers and homeowners building, rebuilding, and expanding, in “one of the most ecologically fragile and dangerous places on earth.” The Stark Inequality of Climate Change 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Given all the fragile projections on the sculptures, loan requests are not welcome. Antiques: Lumière Autochromes and Other Early Color Photos 2013-01-04T00:46:45Z

This mock-studious opening doesn't prepare us for the three fragile, blown-glass jellyfish with dangling, delicate tentacles that float in a black void around the corner. Rosemarie Trockel at the Serpentine: life, the universe and everything 2013-02-13T19:30:01Z

“Love is the point at which all the characters stumble, where they are fragile, and where they have to decide. On all the rest, they can negotiate.” The Novel That Riveted France During Lockdown Arrives in the U.S. 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

After some hopeful signs, Naoko's fragile mental health deteriorates, and she descends into schizophrenia. 'Norwegian Wood': Young love, shared grief in '60s Tokyo 2012-01-26T21:16:06Z

A friend wrote that her thoughts went to all the families who parent kids with this syndrome because we “appreciate these fragile lives and know the importance of embracing every moment.” Waiting to love my child 2013-05-07T23:45:00Z

In a filing cabinet, in what she calls the “magic drawer,” she keeps fragile early editions of books like “Hop on Pop” and “If I Ran the Circus.” Dr. Seuss Book: A Discovery in a Box, and Then a Reconstruction 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

You tend to play tough and/or fragile characters. Can you talk about creating Gigi, who is a bit of both? Marisa Tomei: “My tough/fragile thing comes from being Italian” 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

“If you fully believe that the world around you is that fractious and that fragile and that tenuous and that frightening, then your body feels that, too,” she said. Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector: Together, Onstage and Off 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Listen: Future fury forces fragile rural friends from crucible! Style Invitational Week 1425: Picture this — a cartoon caption contest 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Aemond broke the fragile family supper truce by toasting his “strong” nephews, prefiguring battles that now seem imminent. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 8 Recap: Calamitous Ambition 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Do you see relationships as being fragile, even ones this long-term? Andrew Haigh Narrates a Scene From ‘45 Years’ 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

That idea of movies has always been a myth, and maybe it’s an especially fragile myth at this moment of disruption and dissension. What ‘Green Book’ Says About the Academy. Our Critics on the Oscars. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

But when authorities get involved, their fragile existence is in jeopardy. No cape required: your guide to the best alternative films this summer 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

It’s only human, I suppose, to see our youthful haunts as fragile ecosystems, constantly under the threat of extinction. California in My Mind 2012-10-19T17:08:31Z

Yes, they are burdened by a pompous, needy father who places his faith in his fragile son. Review: ‘Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart’ 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

If anything, this music that has survived the centuries feels more fragile, more vulnerable than ever. Perspective | I thought classical music could stand up to anything. Now it feels more vulnerable than ever. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Yet, this vulnerable, shy, fragile girl who winds up alone in a bathtub. “Whitney” director on Houston’s untold story: “Whitney had been abused, and it took a hug... 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Click here to view the videoYet at the same time, Youssef's career – and that of many Egyptian journalists – is still fragile. Egypt's Jon Stewart? Al Bernameg is a political satire to rival The Daily Show 2013-03-06T08:00:00Z

Babies are not as fragile as I thought they would be. Bobby Moynihan on His New Life After ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

The lives of actors often contain heady highs and dispiriting lows, so fragile is their hold on the public’s imagination and their access to the levers of power in the industry. Review: Daniel Beaty as Paul Robeson in ‘The Tallest Tree in the Forest’ 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

"So they're either endangered or threatened, and there's a lot of issues for them. So we felt like that idea of this fragile beauty was kind of interesting." Creating those wild "White Lotus" wallpapers and the hidden meanings within 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

So much intimate, fragile, desperate humanness infuses these pages, it’s breathtaking. Review | Elizabeth Strout’s ‘Oh William!’ is yet another dazzler 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

"My confidence was so fragile that if she'd said feck off, I would have retreated into the shame of 'Jesus, who did I think I was, believing I could write a book'." Marian Keyes: a life in books 2012-12-14T22:55:02Z

In the fourth variation, he would paint the plywood and then “burn it in a controlled way to create something very fragile.” The Artist Who Guides His Art with Crypto-tokens 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

For two people in different ways so fragile, the experience was devastating. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

Unfolding the fragile stationery, I see it’s dated 1972, and I’m transported to a Miami Beach hotel, checking in with my family. Perspective | My nest is empty, but the stuff remains. Why is decluttering so emotionally fraught? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

She could be mercurial, fierce, insecure, recklessly sexual, passionately maternal, wildly brave and incredibly fragile all at once. Delving deep for Norma's voice on 'Bates Motel' 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The cycle commemorated by this immense yet fragile construction is of both birth and rebirth. Review | In the galleries: Putting flat art into perspective 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

The longer Horse Girl probes its protagonist’s ostensibly unremarkable life, however, the more complex and fragile her mental state is revealed to be. Streaming: To All the Boys: PS I Still Love You – the longed-for sequel lands 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

Behind the calm facade is a strategically vital part of the country with a fragile security situation that shows every sign of worsening. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

He was besieged on all sides by reminders that his patriarchal authority was either waning or finally being recognized as fragile, maybe illusory. "Big Love's" powerful, infuriating ending 2011-03-21T14:22:00Z

A fragile, sometimes tentative beauty characterized the first two pieces: “Ear for EAR,” an antiphonal work for solo and offstage ensemble, and “Four2”, a meditative piece interspersed by yawning silences. Review: Ekmeles Performs John Cage at the Avant Music Festival 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

But her fragile yet powerhouse performance as Judy Garland in “Judy” is that irresistible thing: a comeback story. Oscar Predictions: Can ‘Parasite’ upset ‘1917’? 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Or less noisy friends: In too many scenes, the group’s rowdy cross-talk only disrupts the fragile mood created by Max’s bewilderment. ‘Matthias & Maxime’ Review: Unsealed With a Kiss 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

The Guardian's Alexis Petridis described Bowie's voice as "gorgeously fragile – not the fragility of someone nearing 70 who's lost their vocal power, but the fragility of someone who wants to communicate an aching wistfulness." David Bowie secures first top 10 single in 20 years 2013-01-13T18:51:08Z

Those are the introductory words of Sherry, an emotionally fragile but newly optimistic art therapist. 'Tigers Be Still' treats depression with wry humor 2010-10-07T20:44:00Z

Many pieces are fragile, obsolete, or of little value, except of the sentimental kind. Our lock-and-leave culture: the rise of self-storage and clinging to stuff we hardly use 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the vows themselves are seen as bright objects in a fragile pastoral. Luminary by RS Thomas: Poem of the week 2013-06-17T11:37:44Z

We must demand better depictions of ourselves or risk being served a lifetime of fragile eggs. House Husbands, Paper Giants: Magazine Wars – TV review 2013-06-10T06:21:47Z

People tend to realize that we were so young and naive that we were fragile, not just physically, mentally too. Q&A: The Wrongly Convicted Central Park Five on Their Documentary, Delayed Justice and Why They’re Not Bitter 2013-01-08T13:00:30Z

It is a tiny musical box that plays the Internationale, and its fragile tinkling is transmitted through huge loudspeakers. Manifesta 9 – review 2012-08-28T12:59:00Z

She then produced a wineglass wrapped in dinner napkin, a symbol that relationships are fragile and a reminder of the need to treat one another other with care and compassion, Ms. Miller said. It Was Obvious from Day 1 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

She’s fragile, detailed, musical — you care for her because she lives each moment so fully — and she takes to the air as if it were her element. Many Giselles, but Only One Osipova 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

The fragile ballad Antique brought an improvisation of tender intensity from Julian Siegel on tenor sax. Mike Gibbs ? review 2011-02-17T17:07:40Z

It looks so fragile you wonder how it supports the weight — until you discover savory braised carrots and endive, hidden within, doing the heavy lifting. The Coterie Room offers creative menu 2011-11-24T00:02:37Z

“This attempt to remove him seems to be poorly thought out, poorly executed, and it will place a stain on our institution that even our love of resources and fragile spirit will not easily remove.” After a Showdown, Juilliard’s President Retains Support of Board 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

So Mr. Orozco’s projects serve to promote more conscientious stewardship of our fragile natural home. Art Review: ‘Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms’ at the Guggenheim 2012-11-15T21:37:24Z

So the structural conditions are exactly the kind of fragile state, conflict-affected state where the basics of humanitarian survival are desperately needed: water, sanitation, health care, etc. International Rescue Committee CEO: ‘The way refugees are seen is a running commentary on our own values’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

An ice-free Arctic would open shipping routes, increasing pollution in a fragile region. Climate change is altering the Arctic faster than expected 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

A signature Balanchine move — the jazzy, flopped-back high kicks from "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" — returns here in a completely different mood, now melancholy and fragile. PNB spins intimate 'Love Stories' at McCaw 2011-11-07T21:52:03Z

Museum curators routinely face all kinds of challenges: delicate works of art that need special attention, fragile artist egos that require careful stroking, unwilling lenders who need convincing. Inside Art: The Cat Is Stuffed, but the Bird Is Real 2011-01-06T22:44:44Z

My health is fragile but stable, and I’ll be taking a cocktail of drugs for the rest of my life. Experience: I cured my own mystery disease 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

“The only thing he and Dennis had in common was that they both loved Claire,” Hulse writes, “and now that she was gone, so too was the fragile, frayed thread that tied them together.” Book review: ‘Black River,’ by S.M. Hulse 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

She is the embodiment of strength—no fragile anything in need of anyone. Broken, Defaced, Unseen: The Hidden Black Female Figures of Western Art 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

Streaming has upended the already fragile ecology of independent distribution. Worried About the Health of Cinema? Sundance Has Good News for You. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

For people like this, wine glasses must be esthetically pleasing but above all functional, enhancing the perception of wines that can often be subtle, nuanced and, in the case of older vintages, fragile and fleeting. The Best Wine Glass for Any Occasion: Our Critic Reviews 5 New Contenders 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

One widely shared tweet joked that the Paparoto’s main dish would be “fragile sexist in a soup of tears”. Brazilians hail triumph of MasterChef 'warrior' over her sexist co-stars 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

“It was our goal to create a one-of-a-kind experience: astonishing and dramatic, yet with great humbleness to this fragile environment,” says Jensen. On Denmark's Jutland coast an elegant new museum counters a Nazi monolith 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

Windier spring weather shakes the fragile sprouts, kicking up dust that can cut down new growth. Hard Times for a Hot Commodity, the Prized New Mexico Chile 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

He arrives to find a city fractured by tragedy, in a nation struggling to maintain a fragile peace. 4 New Y.A. Fantasy Novels Full of Dark, Enchanting Twists 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

In some respects, birds of prey that live among human populations have a fragile life cycle. Life Is Hazardous for Urban Raptors. These Women Offer Hope. 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

"I felt at times he struggled to say what he was trying to say … In certain instances that awkwardness gives the record a real sense of fragile beauty." Readers' reviews 2011-02-10T22:10:00Z

Also, he’s overly attached to a shiny, fragile crystal thing that he keeps on a shelf in his workspace. Review: Mother!, Ambitious and Dorky, Is Sure to Be Divisive 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

The bombing of Pearl Harbor encroaches on their fragile happiness. 'San Miguel': T.C. Boyle's novel of dashed dreams on a remote island 2012-09-20T20:44:04Z

Inside her home, however, as evidenced by the snapshots and captions below, the ecosystem is anything but fragile. From Catherine Opie, a Visual Diary of the Recent Past 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

It used the devastating BP oil spill as a source of inspiration for a fashion shoot that depicted models as fragile, otherworldly creatures choking on petroleum. Filmmaker son of longtime Vogue Italia editor focuses his lens on her provocative work, life 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

I rarely make pastry, but for a quivering, rust-coloured tart of such delicate flavour I will happily make a fragile crust and fill it with a creamy custard and pieces of fresh shellfish. 20 best seafood recipes: part 2 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

The human mind is much more fragile than we like to believe, says cult expert Rick Ross in a scene deep into the first season's run. Beyond sex trafficking and sashes, HBO's chilling NXIVM docuseries "The Vow" proves a cult's power 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

As she approached, Cattelan leaned forward, in a climate-controlled room that housed one of the most physically fragile works in all of Western art, held out two fingers and said, ‘‘Cigarette?’’ A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z

There were certainly enough people who would say I was unbalanced or fragile, right? 40 years ago, I fled South America for freedom. I am one of the lucky ones 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

The sound comes from beneath the cozy hooked rug in Agnes’s kitchen, and it heralds the arrival of a fragile, birdlike creature with a badly beaten face. ‘When We Were Young and Unafraid,’ With Cherry Jones 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Bluebeard: A Fairytale for Adults is their first show; it's small, fragile and very, very messy but full of sparky promise. New Edinburgh act of the day: Milk Presents 2011-08-11T13:10:05Z

With multiple structures and a fragile ecosystem, the site plan, Bonetti says, “was our greatest challenge.” Donna Karan 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z

The drive-in has a fragile business model: mostly seasonal and vulnerable to bad weather. Summer nights: the US drive-in cinemas still packing ‘em in 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

It is also a fragile material, like our fragile life. Venice Biennale: Iraq's art world emerges from the ruins 2013-05-29T10:00:17Z

I was ambivalent about our tryst and feeling fragile about where it might lead. When Chivalry Is More Control Than Care 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Link to video: The Stone Roses: Made of Stone: watch the trailer for Shane Meadows' documentary They're made of something much more fragile than that. The Stone Roses: Made of Stone – review 2013-06-06T19:15:01Z

“Asia lost in time,” was the way the photographer and journalist Gary Knight recently described Myanmar to me; the fragile ruins of the pagodas almost literally illustrated his comment. Visiting Myanmar: It’s Complicated 2012-08-03T16:32:39Z

It now seems a lot smaller and far more fragile. Perspective | 200 years later, the U.S. Botanic Garden is an example of what public funds can do for public good 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. West was defiant in defending his positions, but he also presented as someone fragile and in need of protection. The Battle for Kanye West Is Happening in Real Time 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

“Tuesday night at Knockdown Center in Queens, nearly 2,000 people were handed something fragile and entrusted — implicitly implored — not to break it.” The Enduring Appeal of Magical Mystery Musicians 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

The solution is to cut back on the fragile leafy greens in your salad bowl, and ramp up vegetables of a more robust order. A Hearty Salad for a Month of Healthy Eating 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

His novels explore the humanity and the noble yet fragile endurance of the marginalized. Hanan al-Shaykh: By the Book 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The White House and independent economists have warned that the fragile U.S. economic recovery could take a hit if the payroll tax cut is allowed to expire. Government shutdown looms 2011-12-14T19:12:06Z

He’s a fragile person who most of us don’t really know. How Mike Wallace changed TV journalism: "You had to compete" 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

Our scholar is Gyongyi Mago, who teaches history to teenagers, sifts through fragile documents and asks questions of her town’s Holocaust survivors. | 'There Was Once ?': ?There Was Once ?? Documentary by Gabor Kalman ? Review 2011-09-23T04:03:04Z

About the size of a real guitar, it now looks achingly fragile and was, of course, never playable. Art Review: When Picasso Changed His Tune 2011-02-10T22:50:56Z

He combined an entrepreneurial flair for marketing with the strategic vision to make bold investments — in canals, for instance, to transport his fragile wares. Design: A Niche of Stylish Power 2011-07-03T13:02:00Z

Yet, their survival depends upon the protection of the many smaller animals and plants living within fragile habitats. Gill Lewis: 'Our own survival depends upon protecting our environment' 2013-05-15T11:39:59Z

Now even that fragile rhetorical progress, which took years to build, is imperiled by the recklessness of the Trump agenda. Dakota Pipeline protests come to Wall Street: Native American activists hope to pressure big banks to back off 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Manzanilla has another singular characteristic, its texture, which feels almost fragile next to richer finos. Manzanilla Sherry: Singular, Saline and So Polarizing 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

"What's special with a building like this is the quality of its construction ... There's a thatched roof, brushwood ... so it's a very original, pretty building, but at the same time it's very fragile." Paris's 222-year-old zoo calls for help to restore historic building 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

While cooling off in the airport’s Naughty Room, he meets a pretty single mother whose bright but emotionally fragile son can’t get past Level 49 of Angry Birds. ArtsBeat Blog: The True Meaning of the Season: Holiday Movies We'd Actually Watch 2011-12-09T13:00:08Z

“Working with a natural element is unpredictable. Something reclaimed is even more fragile.” Chad and Carrie Jordan of Made in Aldie: Inside the Workshop

The production, directed by Vincent Broussard and first seen in Munich, is a mishmash, intent on imposing social commentary on the fragile plot. SF Opera: A whale, a swan and 2 lovers 2012-10-21T20:33:09Z

She explained that some of the 17th-century paintings were too fragile to travel, while some were in private collections, and the Gardner’s was lost. Want to See All the Vermeers in the World? Now’s Your Chance 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

Dale Chihuly, 75, has struggled with his mental health, by turns fragile and luminous like the art he makes. At 75, Chihuly discusses his long struggles with mental health 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

“When you read the letters — and there are two thick volumes — you realize he is much more fragile, more florid, sometimes obsequious to rich people, a bit stalker-y to women, often depressed.” Alan Cumming Uses Dance to Get at the Truth of Robert Burns 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Jam is one of five teenage protagonists attending the Wooden Barn, a New England boarding school for "emotionally fragile, highly intelligent students," who encounter one another in a class called "Special Topics in English." Meg Wolitzer's 'Belzhar' nurses its teens back to emotional health 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

If such plans work, it might not be long before that Apollo-eye view of the fragile Earth becomes real once more. Space pollution: litter bugs face the final frontier 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

“This piece was fragile — held together by a hope and a prayer — much like existence in Harlem in the 1970s and 1980s,” Nengudi recalls. Artist Senga Nengudi uses pantyhose in surprising ways 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

And so the film highlighted African cultures not by depicting them as fragile or foundering, but as paragons of artistry and sophistication. "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" continues the series’ quest to recover and celebrate lost cultures 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

A sharp tongue invariably guards a fragile heart in the Channing portrait gallery, which is what makes her work so affecting. Review: Stockard Channing Is a Mother to Remember in ‘Apologia’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Transit systems, in particular, are fragile, intricate ecosystems that rightly receive a healthy degree of government protection from invasive species. When libertarianism fails 2012-06-09T16:00:00Z

Several hundred loose pages written on fragile paper will be rotated for public view. Anne Frank's full diary on display in Amsterdam 2010-04-28T12:01:00Z

At Thursday’s news conference, Melanie Keen, the director of the Wellcome Collection and one of the Turner Prize judges, praised Darling’s “fragile and often precarious sculptures” evoking vulnerable bodies. Artist of Black Portraiture Leads Turner Prize Shortlist 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Balancing our desire to be supportive against intruding on the fragile feelings of others is a delicate dance. Social Q?s: Time to Fly Solo - Social Q?s 2011-10-27T17:53:26Z

In Hungary, she welcomes the arrival of migrating Eurasian cranes, “thousands of beating hearts and eyes and fragile frames of feather and bone.” Review | Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ — like ‘H Is for Hawk’ — is a beautiful, poignant celebration of the natural world 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

Your Swarovski figurines are more jagged and masculine than the average fragile glass menagerie.  Crystal Creatures, Mr Porter’s California Collection and the Return of PF Flyers 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Now, I’m all for safeguarding fragile practices and traditions, but this move by Spain sounded like a bad idea. You’re getting it all wrong about tapas — starting with the meaning of the word 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

At the hotel, Mr. Douglas looked physically vigorous, but he spoke in a voice that was sometimes fragile and tentative. Liberace’s Tale, From Michael Douglas and Steven Soderbergh 2013-05-17T21:54:42Z

Eccentric, charismatic strangers, yes, but these fragile egotists couldn’t have completely known the results of professional abuse. Best of 2018: I am a "MasterChef" survivor 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

Is fragile Sam going to get everyone killed? ‘The Walking Dead’: What to Remember Before Sunday’s Premiere 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

His ego is not so fragile, he says, that he needs someone to tickle him like a stuffed animal and affirm that he’s lovable. Books of The Times: A Graphic Memoir That Earns the Designation 2011-05-24T21:24:59Z

But in that case and two others, Judge Goetz ruled the singer too fragile, mentally, to testify. Is Britney Spears Ready to Stand on Her Own? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Cardboard boxes hadn’t been unpacked, including one large plank-shaped box bearing a helpful “fragile” warning: “Item is mirror!!!” Lord & Taylor Returns to New York — Sort of! 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

While taking a fragile baby into nature for the first time was a novel experience, to my surprise camping with a newborn wasn’t as difficult as I expected. Camping with toddler is a joyful challenge worth the effort 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

But as much as some women may possess a fragile center beneath a tough exterior, it seems to me that for Berry the opposite applies. | Halle Berry 2012-10-18T20:21:12Z

Wildfires, floods, dangerous storms, rising water levels and temperatures: all remind us how fragile our world really is. The World Has Changed. So Has ‘52 Places.’ 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

His Pasolini is fragile, dreamy and sad, shuffling domestic vignettes with vibrant fantasy interludes as it cruises inexorably towards the rocks. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

This is all we have, this fragile shouting. Modern Love: Do Not Adjust Your Screen or Sound 2013-06-13T19:46:45Z

The fragile strangeness of ordinary objects is also evident in sculptures of potted cactuses, books and decorative knickknacks, all made from painted tissue paper. Uncharted seas in 'How to Build a Foghorn' at Samuel Freeman Gallery 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Until a few years ago, we were like Rushdie, keeping our digital assets on the fragile hard drives of our PCs and laptops and almost never backing them up. If you have lofty ambitions for your legacy, head for the attic 2011-01-09T00:05:39Z

The comparison is apt because friendships are everything they are — beautiful and fragile, tragic and knotted — because they are so dreadfully human. When Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson went from friends to enemies: 'The Feud' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

These were not Haydn's sounds; the keyboards of the composer's time were far more fragile in their tone. András Schiff slyly and expertly plays late sonatas of legends 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

In the end, droplets of sound evoke a fragile rebirth. Scorched Silence, Fragile Rebirth, Award-Winning Music 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

We learned so much about the story of Christmas as we unwrapped the figurines and many fragile components of this little work of art. Fox News' Rachel Campos-Duffy: Christmas glory includes the beautiful Nativity scene 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

The peace is fragile, and a pall of suspicion hangs over their hometown, Africo. Review: ‘Black Souls’ Depicts Crime Families Bound by Blood in Bad Ways 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

The supple Vietnamese performers fashion fragile installations, working busily on the ochre ground or leaping through the air. L?ng T?i (My Village) - review 2011-07-26T12:59:02Z

And yet, when the Obamas moved into the White House, the country’s economy was already in free fall, and its fragile black middle class was, to put it simply, vanishing. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z

It’s worth pausing here to warn that “Piranesi” is an unusually fragile mystery — as delicate as the slender fingers and wispy petals on the marble statues that fill the House. Review | Susanna Clarke’s infinitely clever ‘Piranesi’ is enough to make you appreciate life in quarantine 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

The crisis reveals the captain to be a fragile man who has advanced beyond his abilities as a charmer with a good haircut. Armando Iannucci Gets Lost in Space in “Avenue 5” 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

Nick Drake found posthumous fame thanks to his fragile, haunting songs, and his mother was clearly an influence. Molly Drake: Molly Drake – review 2013-01-17T22:30:01Z

And there she was sitting in front of me: tall, very fragile, skinny and not saying anything. Director Wim Wenders On Filming the Work of Pina Bausch in 3-D 2011-12-22T14:45:55Z

The movie’s balance is, like its hero’s, fragile. 2010-02-06T04:17:00Z

And most fragile and compelling of all: sitting in a high chair and wearing a nightdress, a monkey reaches out its hand to grasp the arm of the otherwise unseen person who is spoon-feeding it. The Mysterious Relationship Between Pets and Their Owners 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Unlike the poor fragile skull of one, W. A. Mozart. Tom Colicchio Changes His Restaurant’s Racially Tinged Name 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

They are often the jewels in the public collections they are housed in, or in a fragile condition. Manet show at Royal Academy bridges the gaps on father of modern art 2012-09-26T15:37:14Z

A beautiful, fragile Central European civilization was all but demolished, surviving mainly as the ghostly object of nostalgic longing. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Is a Complex Caper 2014-03-06T15:00:02Z

A week before Sunny’s death, we paid a visit to his cardiologist. Bronchitis had come on suddenly and he had been feeling fragile for days, both physically and emotionally. Sunny’s Place 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

They share with the other pieces in the show a sense of the fragile quality of being, and of the uncertainty of the future of the natural world. Animate/Inanimate: TarraWarra Museum of Art – review 2013-07-16T03:06:57Z

The grid is fragile, and not at all inevitable, but you tend to assume otherwise until it fails. The grid leaves us powerless 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

In addition to creating inconveniences, the unrelenting crowds are damaging the fragile terrain. Fall foliage is coming, and so are the hikers. Here’s how to find trails less traveled. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

That interpretation encouraged me to think that as Lear, he might dare to appear truly old and fragile in a powerhouse role. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z

She was there to pick up sweets for her nephews, whom she was about to visit, and he was buying treats for the medically fragile children that his program serves. Something Sweet in the Candy Aisle 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

But it's Mitchell, already fragile from the Box Tunnel 20 and Lia's prophesy, that looks set to be pushed over the edge completely by his old mentor's return. Being Human: series three, episode five 2011-02-20T22:05:01Z

Since 1989, Place has been producing a stream of Lead Belly releases, rescuing songs from fragile 75-year-old master discs made of glass. From Woody to Lead Belly, the master of Smithsonian Folkways 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

"He's not fragile, he's a tough old cat, but he's still a bit floppy and loose at the seams." What's the future for Bagpuss? 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Before we met, I had heard Berry described as "fragile." | Halle Berry 2012-10-18T20:21:12Z

Because despite Lady Danbury’s beliefs that love conquers everything, I could not help but think that history ends up validating the duke’s skepticism and his sense that Black progress is always a fragile thing. ‘Bridgerton’ Takes On Race. But Its Core Is Escapism. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

The Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives, which the family helps run at a tiny office in Mount Kisco, N.Y., has long had to keep researchers away from the more fragile scrapbooks. Antiques: Saving Scrapbooks From the Scrapheap 2011-08-04T21:59:48Z

A sturdy environment becomes fragile and must be continually propped up. From Good Wine, a Direct Path to the Wonders of Nature 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

For me that was the most important thing because Sandra is very strong but also very fragile and insecure. The Star and the Creator of 'Witnesses' on Their New French TV Thriller 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

But he is also fragile, and armless in his old garments. Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures – review 2012-09-29T23:05:27Z

She lives with grandparents — her father disappeared, her mother killed herself — and the movie’s most touching scenes involve this ancient, fragile couple. Albatross: Just Call Her Emilia Bad-Elia 2012-01-12T19:03:29Z

First, there are fragile objects in this show — eggs, bodies. Dance Review: Casus Performs ‘Knee Deep’ at New Victory Theater 2014-03-26T21:08:36Z

Nearly 60 years after the Korean War ended with a fragile armistice, the two Koreas are technically still at war. Charles Dutoit pushes for inter-Korean orchestra 2011-07-22T05:05:10Z

“This band is always a place for us to go when we feel vulnerable and fragile and angry,” Brownstein said. Sleater-Kinney Asked St. Vincent for a Creative Spark. The Trio Blew Up. 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

A series of miscarriages has left Colleen feeling fragile with mourning. Review | ‘Damnation Spring’ beautifully explores the human cost of environmental damage 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

Our industry is so fragile, and you show that on screen. "The Morning Show" Season 3 confronts Jan. 6 and "the lies we tell ourselves" 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z

In the twentieth century, under the pressure of enormous social changes, the nineteenth-century consensus was revealed as fragile; its view of reality began to look, one might say, fake. Salman Rushdie on Truth, Lies, and Literature 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

“If you thought the record was the whole story, the dream is teaching you how fragile the record is.” For Hilary Mantel, There’s No Time Like the Past 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Some of the dresses, with 3-D appliqués in papery organza or chiffon-covered beads, had a built-in quality of decay as time and wear rubbed away the fragile fabrics. Fashion Review: Onstage or Backstage, a Kiss for Paris 2011-01-26T23:00:11Z

The other difficulty is that too many of the ideas contained here appear thin and brittle rather than rich and flexible: fragile rather than antifragile. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z

The island is part of North Carolina's Outer Banks, a roughly 200-mile stretch of fragile barrier islands off the state's coast. Evacuations begin as Irene bears down 2011-08-24T16:25:00Z

“The branch is a parable of growth, but it’s also fragile.” Indonesian puppetry and a festival of West Javanese culture come to Freer/Sackler

We have never been freer to define our own relationships, and follow our own pleasure, he says, but despite this we are far from satisfied; and the modern couple is looking dangerously fragile. A graphic history of sex: ‘There is no gene that drives sexuality. All sexuality is learned’ 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

What's more, while much of the work they offer is fragile and slight, it is also full of invention and craft – using tools from shadow puppetry to wireless technology. Lyn Gardner on Edinburgh star ratings 2011-08-21T20:59:02Z

Each depicts a glamorous model hiding behind shades, with the logo obscured by the story of an abused woman — a tactic that upends the reading of the image, making the model look hunted and fragile. Art and Design: Sanja Ivekovic, Croatia?s Monumental Provocateur 2011-12-25T05:07:04Z

The museum has long been financially fragile; its board has rarely provided the kind of financial support that an institution of its quality requires and deserves. Critic’s Notebook: Hurdles Grow at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2012-07-22T21:54:39Z

Viewed from a distance, our planet may be seen as a blue marble, a beautiful and fragile whole. ‘Bluemarble’ Stars Julian Barnett and Jocelyn Tobias 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

I remembered their instrument is so fragile and so problematic that they would actually call it in the third person, like, 'I woke up this morning and the voice is not very good today.' A Minute With: Dustin Hoffman on his directing debut 2013-01-23T10:04:28Z

The Morgantina silver is set to return to New York in 2014, but several archaeologists here suggested that the fragile artifacts were put at risk every time they traveled. Silver Said to Be Stolen Is Back Home 2010-12-05T23:47:00Z

The most such acts of mimicry can yield is, I suspect, a fragile and possibly illusory sense of contact with the experiential world of our ancestors. How to be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman – review 2013-07-12T11:00:01Z

She is a garrulous woman who was fragile and vulnerable, yet scheming and manipulative, a very Diana-ish combination. Tabloid revives memories of the 'Manacled Mormon' 2010-10-12T07:50:00Z

Those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and family and co-workers and then gradually to everyone who knew her, everyone she actually met.” Civil Behavior: Was Jodie Foster’s ‘Coming Out’ a Step Backward for Gays and Lesbians? 2013-01-22T14:00:00Z

She will suggest later to Luke that her desire not to kill Reva helped her break free of Kilgrave, but this is a fragile explanation. Jessica Jones: shattering exploration of rape, addiction and control 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

But the exhibit at the Frye — his first museum exhibition in the U.S. — offers something more fragile, humble and poignant. At Frye Art Museum: Li Chen and the 'beauty of imperfection' 2012-03-14T18:53:04Z

He describes “the early years of the Casablanca-Dakar line” when “our equipment was fragile, and breakdowns, searches and rescues often brought landings in rebel territory.” Taking to the skies in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams' classic drama about a struggling writer, his domineering mother, his fragile sister and her gentleman caller. L.A. theater openings for May 1-8: 'Honky' and more 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Their fragile equilibrium, kept in place by the strictures of Chinese tradition that accorded specific duties and perquisites to each wife, is threatened when Tieng returns from three years abroad with disturbing new ideas. Theater Review: ‘Golden Child,’ at the Signature Center 2012-11-14T03:00:00Z

Mint, opened another fragile broadsheet: the Cincinnati Enquirer from May 5, 1970. Extra, Extra: Historic newspapers free to all comers 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

The songs describe a steady and rapid progression from innocence to disillusion, with Mr. Browne’s great “Before the Deluge” summing up the rise and fall of this fragile West Coast bohemia. Music Review: Lauren Fox at the Metropolitan Room 2012-10-14T20:37:22Z

But when the fur market started to founder in the 1980s, the nutria population soared and started to endanger the fragile ecosystem. Is Their Pest Your Clean Conscience? 2010-11-18T12:44:00Z

The fragile, fleeting nature of our own mortality is scary as hell. Don't eulogize Bret Michaels yet 2010-04-26T16:12:00Z

By then, we felt we could best protect our fragile girl with both of our bodies surrounding hers. Let’s co-sleep on it: How I became the mom I swore I’d never be 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z

A series of photographs by the L.A.-based artist examines that fragile membrane that protects the average 2-ton vehicle barreling around at 65 mph: the windshield. Datebook: New works by Mark Bradford, street art temple, the end of men 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

The dark atmosphere is also present in his many portraits, including a picture of his mentally fragile aunt Marianne - showing her with Richter as a child, before she was killed by Germans. Gerhard Richter opens largest exhibit in Paris 2012-06-04T19:29:09Z

Falconry's appeal is rooted in this unlikely, fragile alliance between humans and species celebrated in statue and coinage worldwide for their freedom and independence. Death from Above: Falconry in Scotland 2011-09-29T16:25:00Z

Dance is the most fragile of the arts. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Wraps Up a Memorable Winter Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

I speak from experience: The male ego is a ridiculously fragile thing. ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Zava Superstar 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

The book, by the formidable Wall Street Journal reporters Bob Davis and Lingling Wei, shows how fragile the truce between the countries is, and how close they are to a more devastating conflict. New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Covid Parenting to Didion Onstage 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

The twisty plot has fragile, newly single Sarah meeting brooding Alex on holiday. Thrillers: John O'Connell's choice ?reviews 2011-08-12T21:55:12Z

And going into a much more fragile and dangerous world, I think this piece speaks to the original ‘Cape Fear’ more than it does the ‘Simpsons’ parody of it.” ‘Mr. Burns’ Morphs ‘The Simpsons’ at Woolly Mammoth 2012-06-01T04:30:07Z

They inhabit not only a despairing narrative but a fragile world. Kate Bush's Explores Nature on 50 Words For Snow 2011-11-22T16:55:18Z

Mulligan, with a voice that sounds as if she’s speaking through cashmere, finds something moving in Daisy’s feathery, fragile yearning. Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Great Gatsby’ does justice to a great book 2013-05-08T21:27:20Z

Full of blood, tears and fire — from guns and gas explosions — this corpse-ridden movie wrenches us through an overheated plot involving a demon-mask-wearing gang of robbers and a mentally fragile cop. Movie Review: ‘That Demon Within,’ Dante Lam’s Hong Kong Pulp 2014-04-18T00:25:29Z

Hunt renders the titular character’s resilience in hard times — and her fragile, often fleeting bonds with others — with ardent precision, detail by lean detail. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Because of remarriage, our sons have seven grandparents, all of whom are motivated to help us because they have experienced how fragile marriage can be. Modern Love: Honey, Let?s Get a Little Divorced 2010-12-02T22:30:00Z

Try not to manhandle them in the pan too much as they are relatively fragile. 20 recipe ideas for leftover carrots 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

“This work and gains that have been made in this space are in many respects fragile, and must be vigorously defended,” it said. Historians Criticize Moms for Liberty Event at Museum in Philadelphia 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

“There was a collection of small brittle bones between the fingers,” we’re told, “almost like the victim was trying to hold onto a fragile little bird.” Yo, Ray Boy: Crime Novels That Speak in Local Voices 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Banderas is playing a character rather older than he is: a troubled film-maker — older, fragile and in fact on the verge of utter decrepitude. Sorry they missed you, Tarantino – but Cannes was right to celebrate Parasite 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

"The economy is too fragile for us to let politics get in the way of action." Obama pushes for passage of jobs bill 2011-10-08T12:32:00Z

The film ends with the sound of someone retching up their tortured soul, an awful, growling, vomitous howl, like an anguished demon being wrenched from a fragile body. The Act of Killing – review 2013-06-29T23:05:24Z

Milch's reflections also are telling about HBO's unfamiliarity with racing and what he calls its "innocence" about the risks of using fragile, high-strung thoroughbreds, whether in real, track-pounding races or slower staged ones. 'Luck' duo defend safety record to 'bitter' end 2012-04-03T10:46:03Z

Brownjohn spoke lucidly but looked fragile and, at times, struggled to stay awake. Design: The Man Who Broke the Record on 'Let It Bleed' 2011-12-11T14:01:00Z

“Democracy’s fragile. By not knowing anything, I contributed to Trump’s winning,” Kleinberg says. Older voters may turn out to be the Democrats’ 2020 heroes 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z

There were too many animals here for an ecosystem that’s so fragile.” Patagonia’s controversial new national park 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

He's fragile and easily broken, and that leads to frustrations and outlets that aren't productive. "It's a quiet revolt": Filmmaker on how "The Last Tree" moves between Black and white spaces 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

Making it, he said, he was most drawn to the idea of the fragile or vaporizing body. A Dance of Vaporizing Bodies, With a Nod to Butoh 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

“I have a tattoo that says: ‘True delicacy is not a fragile thing.’ Lily Collins: ‘I want to dig deep, tell the truth and be more brave’ 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

Once Velvet moves in, Ginger vibrates with happiness so intense, so fragile, that it seems ready to shatter. Mary Gaitskill’s ‘The Mare’: A bracing, tender take on motherhood and guilt 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

But, as fragile as she may have seemed, it took steel to survive not only the notoriously punishing schedule of SNL, but also SNL in the 70s, when it was at its most sexist. ‘She was our Michelle Obama’: how Gilda Radner changed comedy for ever 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Its main flaw: Dim lighting dictated by fragile materials means that some shoes are most visible in the catalog. Museum & Gallery Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The images — the enduring, recognizable ones and the new and fragile ones alike — are fleeting. Review: Dance That Playfully Brings Art History to Life 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The emotionally fragile Robyn, increasingly unnerved, sets about looking into Simon’s past. Review: ‘The Gift,’ a Stalker Thriller That Isn’t What It Seems 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

It marketed records in Tehran from then on, but made them only intermittently, because of the practical difficulties of transporting heavy equipment and fragile blank discs on camel back. Playlist: Albums From George Cables and Zara McFarlane 2014-01-24T19:33:17Z

And I am sitting in my pajamas, filled with impotent worry, watching an animated movie to soothe my anxieties about our fragile place in this world. "The Last Unicorn" at 40 is a poignant prophecy and reflection of today's eco-grief 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

To read this engrossing novel is to become invested in these “entirely resilient and impossibly fragile” people. J. Courtney Sullivan’s ‘Saints for All Occasions’ is this year’s best book about family 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

But in its day, it was far from fragile. Review: Leon Bridges Reveals Classic Soul and Something More Personal 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

But despite specializing in strong, complicated women on stage and screen, the 48-year-old mother of three says she has felt fragile at times. Gillian Anderson speaks out about equal pay and her book, ‘We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere ’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

Other times he came across as a fragile, fearful man, at ease only when making music. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

My cluttered island, by contrast, looked decidedly fragile as I kayaked back toward it. Hurricane Sandy: Rebuilding is madness 2012-11-04T00:44:00Z

And yet his oeuvre is small, no more than 15 works, some unfinished and all fragile. Germaine Greer: The debate over Mona Lisa's identity 2011-02-20T22:30:00Z

Even as the wine world has apparently embraced diversity, that change still feels fragile. Different Grapes From Different Regions, All Screaming Italy 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Yet, she intriguingly tapped into this fragile young woman’s willfulness. Review: In ‘Pelléas,’ the Met Opera’s Music Director Takes Charge 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

“But in comparison to sectors like the theater, some of these opera companies are less fragile — provided that they can hold on to the philanthropy.” The Metropolitan Opera Cancels All Fall Performances 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

I’m really tired of people talking about how fragile dance is. Without Wheeldon, Morphoses Forges Ahead 2011-10-23T01:47:02Z

She has lost all trust in me and I have ruined her life and possibly scarred her fragile heart permanently. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

What the comedy series “Broad City” had described as the country’s “caramel and queer” future suddenly seemed newly fragile. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Front and center is Nancy Reagan, who comes off as publicly brittle but privately fragile, seemingly always on the brink of despair as she tries to protect her husband from everyone. ‘Finale’ review: A novel of the Reagan years that’s packed with real-life barbs 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

A more relevant question for “GLOW” — especially in a year when a toxic masculinity was literally inaugurated — might be how the show both exposes and parodies the tropes of manliness as an elaborate, fragile front. Man up, ladies! How “GLOW” exposes “manliness” as an elaborate, fragile front 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Focused, ruminative and authentically fragile, it's as heartbreaking and moving as any of the grander, flashier works in the show. Loss permeates Jim Hodges' art; prepare for heartbreak 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

He told me cops were clowns for the most part, with fragile egos. Tyre Nichols and American traditions: How do we give kids "The Talk" about police now? 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

It acknowledges that life is short and desperately, desperately fragile. Gabrielle Giffords’ inspiring comeback 2012-09-07T17:30:00Z

COLBERT: Wow, that really soothes my fragile ego. President Trump, Emmy Punching Bag 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Don’t let anyone discourage you, at least not in the beginning stages, when your paracosm is fragile. Building the alternate-universe New York: Novelists Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

“The tent, like the republic, survives. It remains a symbol of the fragile American experiment, the power of the people to secure their own freedoms.” Museum of the American Revolution set to open in Philadelphia 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

This is a sadder, more fragile way to be survivor; it doesn’t uphold any veneer of virtue or valor, it simply gets her through another hard night into another cold day. Sansa Stark has always been a warrior: She’s been fierce all along — and it kept her alive 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

The entrants then spend about two to three months carefully turning their stock of fragile botanical bits, culled over time from the woods and their own backyards, into a show-worthy piece. | Ephemeral Designs From the Flower Clubs of Philadelphia 2014-03-10T22:02:38Z

But they are also fragile, subject to new parasites and diseases, and my beekeeping friends tell me they are finding it harder to survive through the winter than in earlier periods of honeybee cultivation. 3 ways to create a honeybee haven at home 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

But it's the music that binds everything together, with the chilling ululation of traditional Serbian singer Svetlana Spaji´c merging into fragile songs written and performed by Antony Hegarty, of Antony and the Johnsons. The Life and Death of Marina Abramovi? ? review 2011-07-10T17:01:01Z

Each year the album becomes a more fragile thing, and also less meaningful: Musicians are focused on their fame and their art minute to minute, not cycle to cycle. Best Albums of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

In a fragile falsetto, a young man with a long ponytail voiced words meant to ward off a bad omen he received. Amazon Awakening 2010-10-15T18:24:00Z

As for the hot, salty, sour sauces with the fragile samosas, a brunch staple, I wish they were sold by the bottle. Thamee lets diners feast on Burmese stories 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

Because the textiles are extremely fragile and require delicate handling, the last pieces from Sweden won’t arrive until 2021, he said. Sweden Returns Ancient Andean Textiles to Peru 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

At the end of “Infra,” a gentle pas de deux to Mr. Richter’s plaintive string melodies, the piece seems to offer some kind of resolve through its tender, fragile human connections. Dance: Joffrey Ballet Takes on Wayne McGregor?s ?Infra? 2012-02-12T15:31:06Z

“Rebecca was like a deeply rooted plant that moved with the water; it seems fragile but just try pulling it up,” Ms. Gaitskill said in a phone interview. Rebecca Godfrey, Who Found Humanity in Teenage Violence, Dies at 54 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

But the album also begins and ends on a fragile note, as if to remind listeners of where she came from. Review: Angel Olsen's new album builds on her life's dramas 2014-02-17T16:40:00Z

As I was finishing the book, I realized that on SNL the audience just loves when I get physically hurt, or even if I seem emotionally fragile. Colin Jost has a new memoir — and some thoughts on the end of his SNL run 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Emmys host Stephen Colbert followed up the joke, commenting, “Wow, that really soothes my fragile ego. I can understand why you’d want one of these guys around.” Sean Spicer's Emmy cameo was amazingly tone-deaf 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

That loose and fragile alliance of people, those who believe in freedom of expression and those who believe in freedom of expression for some people, we have suffered a crushing defeat. Clash of the Booker titans 2013-05-23T13:57:00Z

It was so fragile, however, that it broke in transit. A promise kept, 50 years later 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

Drowning in regret and a gilded sunset, his gruff voice slides mournfully as he sings: “Leaves from the vine, falling so slow, like fragile, tiny shells drifting in the foam.” 'I've seen grown men cry' – why Avatar: The Last Airbender still touches millions 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Ms Collins, who lives in Paris, described the urge to wear something fragile, or easily stained. Quarantine Made Me Long for Painful High Heels 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

On the other, for one apparently so fragile and mild, there's certainly something relentless about her work rate: at barely 23, she's on to her fourth album. Laura Marling: Once I Was an Eagle – review 2013-05-23T14:00:00Z

King Charles III audaciously, even brilliantly, lays bare the illogic of the monarchy that props up that fragile, sceptered isle. Review: Crown Jewel: King Charles III in London 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

"She is very, very fragile. Some interpret that as being weak, and some interpret that as being strong. I am one of these people who interpret it as being super-strong." Kim Basinger made the time for low-budget '11th Hour' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

“Normally by the time something like this gets made—as delicate and fragile and special as it is—it goes through a whole layer of compromise,” Blanchett says. How 'Carol' Went From Long-Shot Love Story to Awards-Season Favorite 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Predicting he would be branded an anti-Semite, as he has been in full measure, Grass named Israel and called its atomic power a threat to “an already fragile world peace.” Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

The process starts with this scrappy, bits-and-pieces overview, and it’s a moving experience to see the fragile, reliquary traces of vital young artists, some still active, others long gone, at the beginning of their careers. A Head-Spinning, Hope-Inspiring Showcase of Art 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

When the piano entered, Mr. Lang’s shaping of the fragile theme was beguilingly simple and sensitive. Music Review: Lang Lang?s Bartok With the New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-19T23:29:36Z

But that isn’t much, only about 30 items, some in desperately fragile condition. Juan Francisco Elso’s Indelible Art of América 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

The vocal performances on tracks like “What Is This Voice” and “Don’t Put Me in Red” are deliciously fragile and imperfect, which Rubinos found refreshing after years of striving for perfection. How Xenia Rubinos Freed Herself on a New Album, ‘Una Rosa’ 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

It’s a solid part and one that makes great use of Ryder’s ability to be simultaneously steely and fragile. Winona Ryder: from teen rebel to screen mum 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

But mostly she registers as a dithery, sweet and fragile girl who never grew up. Theater Review: ?In Masks Outrageous and Austere? at the Culture Project 2012-04-17T02:00:12Z

But it will cease to function if we do not preserve its very fragile ecology. Arts funding cuts will bring down the curtain on our theatre's golden age 2010-07-28T12:31:00Z

“These years of pandemic have shown us how fragile things are, and how quickly they can collapse, how delicate the making of the universe is, and in my case, how delicate relationships are.” An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths in ‘the Land of Discovery’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

“You have to be an orchestra leader and you can’t be fragile.” Film: At Cannes, Women With Diverse Visions 2011-05-17T11:30:06Z

Dr. Taylor’s watches have been deemed too fragile to wind and keep running, but the clocks chime punctually and their gears, in some instances, are exposed. Antiques: Newark Recalls Its Lustrous Metals Past 2014-01-02T18:49:37Z

A rationalist longing for a sign from God, he looks as tough as old boots with his boxer's gait, but is fragile. Why I'd like to be … Jason Miller in The Exorcist 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

The nuclear weapons of fragile Pakistan and inscrutable North Korea preoccupy large sectors of our intelligence community. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The State of the Nuclear World 2013-01-11T20:44:21Z

As soon as her audience grows beyond those confines, she performs a new role, namely, that of the fragile and vulnerable woman. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

The walls also help protect the fragile works from damaging light. In Spain, Santander Hopes a New Arts Center Will Reinvigorate the City 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

I think it was important for all of us to feel like we were part of something bigger, part of a community, at a time when everyone was feeling so fragile and vulnerable. New York Fashion Week: Fashion Week, Ten Years Later: A Bond Forged in Tragedy 2011-09-07T01:27:28Z

The men throw suitcases, cardboard boxes and what appear to be fragile items that are being unloaded from the plane that just landed in Hong Kong Thursday morning. Airport baggage handlers caught throwing luggage in viral video spark outrage 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

"Harry was a tremendously fragile man long before he married." "Never offer the Queen an ultimatum": Why it's good to be Queen, but no one else in the royal family 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

That is because it is more fragile than it might look, being oil on paper on canvas. Queen on tour: 'unofficial' exhibition of royal portraits arrives in London 2012-05-16T15:29:17Z

“Those things fascinate me. We live in a fragile society and the infrastructure that holds a lot of it up is very fragile.” King writes for new season of ‘Under the Dome’ 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

“She knew it was always a fragile thing.” Guarding a Bright Flame?s Afterglow 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

Built around simple piano chords, Blumberg's delicate whisp of a voice and what sounds like the hum of a tape recorder, it's a beautifully fragile lament. New music: Oupa ? Windows 2011-08-18T13:47:07Z

Somehow, all these encounters fail to illuminate Parker’s fragile emotional state. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

“Roberts borrows from Bearden’s vocabulary but distills it into her own powerful language,” Elizabeth Fullerton wrote last year in Art in America, “capturing her subjects in a fragile state of becoming.” A Dream Deferred, for Now 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

"Does anything scare me? Everything scares me. Life is so fragile." Judith Light isn't afraid of aging: "These are the crone years" 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

“He's bombastic and ambitious and thuggish, but he's also very vulnerable and kind of fragile. He's a psychological sort of paradox.” What the Roger Ailes saga can teach us about tyrants, power and protection 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

It wreaks havoc on the state's fragile wetlands by devouring the roots of erosion-stopping marsh plants. 'Cable Guy' tours country for History Channel 2012-01-05T15:58:08Z

If “Near Death” showcases humanity at its most fragile, “Hospital” finds mainly compassionate doctors dealing, by proxy, with the tumult and chaos of the city itself. Three Great Documentaries to Stream 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Such a fragile moment cries out for a ferociously persuasive argument for engaging with the world in person, not through our screens. You Had to Be There. ‘Encounterism’ Argues You Still Do. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z

Beautifully crafted, sublime melody … and raw, fragile and honest emotion. Neil Young: a beginner's guide 2012-10-01T16:12:28Z

Hovering above Chung’s adolescence was another unspoken but very real anxiety: the threat her parents’ financial insecurity and sporadic insurance coverage posed to their fragile health. A Transcendent Memoir About Family, Class and the Contours of Loss 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

There’s a perception that people with autoimmune issues are weak, fragile, or delicate, which are characteristics I really try to avoid, especially as a woman. Listen up, doctors: Here’s how to talk to your patients 2012-05-23T11:45:00Z

He portrays Winston as a wounded bird from the get-go, fragile and teetering on the edge of breakdown. Review: Doubling Down on Doublespeak in ’1984’ 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

But a moment that has a skin-crawly transparency in the movie — Eva’s fragile self-esteem seems to be withering before us, as Ms. Ullmann’s wholesome beauty turns eerily porcine — registers monotonously even in magnified form here. | 'Autumn Sonata': A Fraught Mother-Daughter Drama 2011-04-28T22:18:19Z

An especially fragile area, collectors and gallerists say, is conservation and restoration. Special Report: Art in Perspective: The Infancy of Art Restoration in India 2010-11-16T12:30:00Z

The result was so fragile and yet so energetically youthful. Special Report: Fashion: Reflecting on the Future 2011-01-25T18:18:38Z

Farmers must be prepared to sometimes work through the night to protect their fragile vines. For American Wine Producers, Fear, Uncertainty and Hope 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Visitors to the Galápagos Islands will likely pay an increased park fee starting next year, a decision that reflects growing concerns that skyrocketing tourism on the Ecuadorean archipelago is harming its fragile and unique ecosystem. Sharp Increase in Visitor Park Fees Proposed for the Galápagos 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Amy Sackville's second novel is told from his perspective as tensions warp their fragile romance and his bride is drawn to the water's edge. Orkney by Amy Sackville – review 2013-03-24T12:30:01Z

She wrote new material and dug into a backlog she estimates at 150 songs; one, the fragile “Fallin’,” dates back to the early 2000s. The Time-Warped Charm of Valerie June 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

On top of that, the economy is in a very fragile state of recovery and the Consumer Confidence Index is very low. Musical acts' summer tours encounter heavy weather 2010-07-16T20:47:00Z

The movie proves to be a fragile conceit. Movie Review: A Fragile Romance Unfolds in ‘The Girl and Death’ 2014-04-25T00:40:27Z

Mr. West opened Zuni in 1979 just blocks from City Hall, three months after an ex-cop assassinated the gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk, in part to shatter a fragile L.G.B.T.Q. coalition’s policy gains. The Forgotten Queer Legacy of Billy West and Zuni Café 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

An effort 50 years ago, marking the 400th anniversary of his death, collapsed because lenders were not prepared to relinquish their fragile, priceless paintings. Review | After 450 years, the frighteningly modern visions of Bruegel get the showcase they deserve 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

But the marvel of Bon Iver is how fragile and conditional each song seems; not monumental but precarious and permeable, susceptible to chance or whim or fate. Bon Iver Steps Back From the Brink on ‘i,i’ 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

After nine gruelling years in the city, juggling session work, waitressing to pay the rent, and playing late-night gigs at the Basement to showcase her own weird, fragile stuff, the twenty-eight-year-old hit a breaking point. Natalie Prass Escapes Nashville 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

The interviews shed light on the fragile lives within each photo. America exports its addiction to bling across the globe; Lauren Greenfield captures it with her camera 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Even bringing it up now is uncomfortable, like I’m endangering something personal and fragile. Let’s Take It to the Page 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

But even at its most fragile, celluloid has proved to be a uniquely dependable format for preserving motion pictures, as well as the human expression and connection they make manifest. Perspective | An Oscar-winning director goes virtual reality, and it’s utterly thrilling. But is it cinema? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Madrid got the first look at silks and religious robes that have rarely surfaced in the New York museum, because of lighting issues that could cause fragile textiles to deteriorate. Spanish Treasures Overlooked in New York Find Love in Madrid 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

She knew how fragile Robin was, and they had this kindness for each other that was pretty special. Pauly Shore: Eyewitness to Comedy History 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

I was emotionally fragile and lonely when it happened. Perspective | Ask Amy: Depressed couple is at relationship impasse 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

He led me down the side of a trailless canyon on one bright morning, as we stayed on the slick-rock and off the fragile biological crust that secures soils against erosion. At Bears Ears in Utah, Heated Politics and Precious Ruins 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

The Lerners assembled about 300 pieces, which required great patience; the fragile material rarely survives, let alone comes on the market. Antiques: Olympics Memorabilia in London Auctions and Museums 2012-07-12T22:41:56Z

And yet never has your father seemed so fragile – a smooth-shelled egg of a man, teetering on the tip of a canyon. Facing death on the mountain: What my father taught me on his last great climb 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

Not that there was anything wrong with that, but the motives of most people were not likely to help a fragile and corrupt country stuck somewhere between the seventh century and Vegas.” Books of The Times: Battle-Zone Absurdity and Adrenaline-Fueled Folly 2011-03-14T22:57:21Z

Soul" Mitchell even thinks that his depression gives him an advantage: "Thinking about it logically, it's easier to damage the self-perception of someone with high and fragile esteem than someone whose esteem is low. Battling through 2012-12-09T20:30:01Z

But to listen to Molly's quintessentially English postwar blues was to be reminded that melancholy meditations on the fragile nature of human happiness are not the sole domain of sensitive young men with guitars. Nick Drake: in search of his mother, Molly 2013-03-22T07:00:10Z

And start to realize, wait a minute, we are the ones who are a fragile situation, not the planet. T Magazine: Big Sky 2011-05-17T19:47:38Z

The guru of killing was an enemy of society, a guerrilla on the fringes of civilized life, who discovered, as many have before and since, the fragile vulnerability of individuals in community. The famous Manson true crime book, 'Helter Skelter,' reviewed in 1974 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Whether writing early hits such as “Teach Your Children” or later top-10 hits, including “Just a Song Before I Go” and “Wasted on the Way,” Nash held the fragile trio together. What pushed Graham Nash, the quiet one, to record his solo masterpiece 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Your film shows how she was beaten up when she was already fragile and wounded. Sinéad O'Connor "refused to play the game": "Nothing Compares" filmmaker on the bold non-conformist 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z

And, admittedly, it was abhorrent to hear one of the chief stewards of that already fragile experience possibly kowtowing to the forces of its extinction. Why allowing texting in movie theaters might have been a brilliant idea 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

She sums up Afghanistan as "a fragile and corrupt country stuck somewhere between the seventh century and Vegas." 'The Taliban Shuffle' more relevant with bin Laden death 2011-05-06T19:32:00Z

Yet because much of the rest of the story is so underdeveloped — notably Claire’s intimate life with her frustratingly generic children — the character overwhelms everything, including the fragile realism. ‘Who You Think I Am’ Review: A Woman of Feeling, in Bed and Out 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

The hard part is finding thoughtfully designed accommodation on this fragile and fast eroding isle. | New Hotels in Chile 2012-05-23T22:00:30Z

Instead, food was scarce, land was disappearing and the peace seemed fragile at best. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation

Foreigners are sending tons of aid, or at least enough to crack the fragile runway of the small international airport. Assessing a Quake-Shattered Nepal 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Specifically, the tough tufts acted as shock absorbers that dispersed the energy generated by a punch just enough to prevent the fragile jaw from fracturing. Beards evolved so men could take punches to the head, study finds 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

The best Joyce Manor songs are vulnerable but not fragile, cleareyed but not cynical. Even Punks Learn Regret. ‘Cody’ Is Joyce Manor’s Take on Aging 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

We bring a beautiful, precious child into the world, and after those first moments of bliss wear off, we realize that our new purpose in life is to protect this fragile human being from harm. Parents, stop hovering! It’s not your job to remove every obstacle from your kids’ paths 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

On the Pakistani side of the border, a change was needed in the dynamics of how a fragile Pakistani civilian government and its strong military interacted with groups such as the Quetta Shura and Haqqani. US embassy cables: Americans reassure India over Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:36Z

"She was very young and seemingly delicate and fragile, but she just did this outrageous stuff and said things that sort of shocked you," says Kazurinsky, now primarily a screenwriter living on the North Shore. Hollywood's fickle; family ties endure 2011-03-16T21:28:00Z

I was alone, with my fragile newborn baby in my arms. Mothers and monsters: On writing through the terror of parenthood 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

Last August Kevin Reilly, Fox’s entertainment president, told reporters at the Television Critics Association tour that the rejection of the episode “was a business decision” because it represented “fragile subject matter at a sensitive time.” Banned ?Family Guy? Episode Gets New Life on DVD 2010-07-19T22:20:00Z

Children are the “the most valuable and fragile among us,” she said. Melania Trump plans to bring attention to the problems children face 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

A silky, seductive flirt, Javier helps shatter the family’s fragile peace, largely through the promises — real or imagined — he embodies. ‘Murina’ Review: Hunting for Independence on Her Terms 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

At one point during the competition, Lopes had said: “Working with a woman in the kitchen is a little more delicate, I’ll be realistic. She ends up being a little more fragile.” Brazilians hail triumph of MasterChef 'warrior' over her sexist co-stars 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Another particular Oregon spirit suffuses the music: the sound of Elliott Smith, a songwriter long associated with Portland, who placed his own sorrows and uncertainties in similarly fragile settings. Review: Sufjan Stevens’s Quietly Moving ‘Carrie & Lowell’ 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

She plays the role of the pretty, fragile, childlike wife for a reason. Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Davey knows all this, but while the Ukrainian court considers nullifying the presidential election, he engages in meetings with Kovrin to maintain the fragile peace on Independence Square. Review | A.D. Miller’s ‘Independence Square’ imagines how one diplomat tried to secretly manage Ukraine’s revolution 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

She is no longer a victim of abusive circumstances from her family or conservatorship, and it's dangerous to habitually paint this fragile and delicate picture of Spears. Leave Britney Spears alone – yes, we're talking to Britney fans also 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Jacobs dismissed his former “fat guy” as the product of a fragile self-esteem. The Survivor 2011-06-01T20:37:21Z

Goffman thought that the social fabric is very fragile, like a soap bubble, and that all of us put an enormous amount of effort into keeping the bubble intact. Crooked Psychics and Cooling the Mark Out 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The movie follows these five in titled chapters that assume their respective points of view and dip into their bleak, economically fragile lives. ‘Only the Animals’ Review: A Missing Woman, a Cruel World 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

"I've definitely done projects that I shouldn't have, but I've always been very protective of my fragile self," said the actor. Peter Dinklage jumps from "Thrones" to indie film comedy 2011-11-19T00:42:40Z

Which means that when kids are placed in a heated situation, unlike adults—whose wiring has had a chance to develop by years of experience making good decisions—kids’ fragile circuitry might break down. Is your kid an addict? 2012-09-27T21:25:00Z

It can be an exhausting process, and in a subject as fragile as Hess it may have created its own pathology, or even advanced an accentuated form of splitting off. The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts by Daniel Pick - review 2012-08-01T07:00:03Z

She hit a chord that was at once wise and understanding, confused and contradictory, defiant and fragile. Lykke Li's dramatic, confident star turn 2011-05-24T16:07:20Z

And over the course of about 90 minutes, we learn what’s locked in those fragile containers. Perspective | A cool musical where? The autumn season of plays at American Shakespeare Center is a rich one. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

While American orchestras have begun hiring female music directors, this is the biggest crack, thus far, in the increasingly fragile glass ceiling about to crash down on top-tier orchestras. Susanna Mälkki brings more news to the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Over and over, he is described as an actor who prepares diligently, poses challenging questions to his collaborators and consistently brings a fragile, relatable humanity to some dark, heavy material. Jared Harris Is (and Isn’t) His Father’s Son 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The grander the spectacle, the more fragile it is. S.F. Opera makes an epic effort with 'Les Troyens' 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

As the title indicates, the clock is ticking as the fragile Sandra trudges from one modest dwelling to another, dropping in on her co-workers’ weekend lives. ‘Two Days, One Night’: Time well spent with Marion Cotillard 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

I appeared to be strong and successful, and in many ways I was, but that old me was also fragile. I Can’t Hate My Body if I Love Hers 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

They hopscotch from Turkey to Greece, Serbia, Slovenia, Austria and finally to Germany, where he finds a fragile safety. New Y.A. Books by Women of Color Rewrite Old Cultural Scripts 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

From January to May, Carnegie will host “Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice,” an exploration of creative expression during the fragile democracy in Germany from 1919 to 1933. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

Victor sees Sarai is fragile and understands where she comes from. William Levy defied convention to make his own Spanish-language assassin flick 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Leicester may well be the perfect Amanda – a faded antebellum beauty fallen on hard times, whose single, doomed objective is to save her emotionally fragile daughter from spinsterhood. The Glass Menagerie – review 2013-04-04T16:53:00Z

At the start of the film, the letters in the credits are so small and faint that they seem fragile and unfocused. Design: Making an Art Out of Credit Rolls 2010-03-01T11:10:00Z

One of the bodies was Mr. Iyer’s, in a black suit; he moved to the piano to start playing low, almost furtive rumbles and clusters, rising to thick tremolos and fragile trills and runs. Vijay Iyer Performs at BAM Harvey Theater 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Here, as in “Fratres,” there were hiccups in the intonation and polish in some fragile passages. Music Review: A Far Cry, in the Schneider Concerts at Tishman Auditorium 2013-01-17T22:50:08Z

It’s pale garnet, and though domina has the reputation of making tannic wines, this is delicate, almost fragile in its purity and loveliness. 12 Natural Wines to Drink Now 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

The Pulp frontman said fans were often in a "fragile" state and needed acts that were a "vague, warm, friendly presence". Eavis defends 'keen' Metallica slot 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Like the world it loosely represents, the installation is intricate and dynamic, yet fragile. Review | In the galleries: Images focus on the future of the planet 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

And yet in the perennially fragile world of HBCUs, where good press and large dollars remain in short supply, Bill Cosby’s fall from grace represents something close to an apocalypse. Bill Cosby is on the phone: “Wake up, man!” 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Tendon structures, for example, get very fragile as we get older,” he says. Spring-cleaning: What’s working (or not) in your fitness routine? 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

The defendant herself, with her faded blond hair, blue eyes and good wool suit, was prettier in person, smaller and more fragile. Reflections: Jean Harris’s Cautionary Tale 2013-01-04T21:45:19Z

For centuries, women were presumed to be not only inherently inferior to men, but qualitatively different as well—more fragile, more vulnerable, and far less inclined to lead anything more complex than a household. After “Lean In,” the road to workplace equality 2013-09-17T11:43:00Z

As they run into trouble, and optimism turns first to anxiety and then to desperation, their fragile solidarity is tested, and so is each individual’s capacity for cowardice, bravery and compassion. Movie Review: ‘The Pirogue,’ Directed by Moussa Touré 2013-01-22T23:28:36Z

Brown as mahogany, with a fragile crunch and a sprinkle of sea salt and chives, they achieve a nutty sweetness that is completely irresistible. The Walrus and the Carpenter would approve of the eatery named after them 2011-01-27T20:59:07Z

It’s so fragile, this bond that they’re forming; it’s all about trust. Review: In Miami, a ‘Swan Lake’ That Blasts Off the Cobwebs 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, their fragile psyche is a garden of lifelong insecurities just waiting to be fertilized with your obnoxious victory dances. Why You Shouldn't Let Your Kid Win (Sometimes) 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

During that time, the use of children in dangerous labor conditions juxtaposed uncomfortably with new ways of considering children as fragile and precious. Child stars: The power and the price of cuteness 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

During a cozy moment with Philippe — who is also her lover — he observes that Patience is a paradox: so fragile, and yet has a self-confidence that impresses. In "Mama Weed," Isabelle Huppert is a stylish drug dealer with a twist: "She's a female Robin Hood" 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

“If we were to draw any amount of funds at this time, it would further reduce our investment and make recovery and long-term fiscal health even more fragile,” she said. Congress gave $25 million to help the Kennedy Center weather the coronavirus. Now some politicians want it back. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

If this broke it, it was pretty fragile to begin with. Who’s Afraid of Female ‘Ghostbusters’? 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

The book’s short middle section ingeniously tracks back to before the storm, and Cora glimmers on the page: a fragile, naïve yet thoughtful woman reminiscent of Laura in “The Glass Menagerie.” A Debut Novelist’s Elegy for Post-Katrina New Orleans 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

They felt like outposts, holdovers from a fragile, receding past, and also, defiantly, like the center of the universe. Film: Movie Love for Paris, City of Klieg Lights 2010-08-14T14:22:00Z

A science-fiction programme hinging on how fragile the bonds we pass off as civilisation really are. Torchwood: Miracle Day ? episode six 2011-08-13T05:00:00Z

Fashion is a tough business, but it is also a fragile ecosystem. Fashion Review: Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Chlo? and Valentino on the Paris Runways 2012-03-07T00:26:38Z

While O’Keeffe triumphed over hers by force of personality, Pelton was rendered forever fragile and introverted. ‘Agnes of the Desert’ Joins Modernism’s Pantheon 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Sharifi says his business is perpetually on the verge of collapse due to the fragile trade relationship between the United States and Iran. Is this biblical food the next foodie fad? This chef thinks so. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Life, as he says, is fragile: 'I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love. James Herbert interview: from the archive, 14 February 1993 2013-03-21T10:48:00Z

A fragile pinwheel of fried bread escorts the second course of the night. Review | At Fiola, less could be even more 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

The hushed dysfunction of Stoner's marriage, the furtive joys of an affair, the struggles of his fragile, wayward child – rarely has the intimate detail of a life been drawn with such emotional clarity. Stoner by John Williams – review 2013-06-22T16:00:01Z

Give it enough time and it sounds knowing, resolved and at peace — but because this pandemic has already taken so many great jazz minds from us, it’s impossible not to hear it as fragile, too. Perspective | Two saxophone masters delivered resonance in pandemic times — but one of them sounded a bad note on vaccines 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

McCARTHY It’s fragile, it’s fickle, it’s wonderful, it’s the worst. Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone on ‘Superintelligence’ and Living Comedy 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Here, the narrative rhymes, projections illustrate the action, and the heroine reveals herself as more funky than fragile. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

And it was a wake-up call for theaters to get their fiscal acts together in a fragile period of very gradual economic recovery. 2011 Footlights honor Seattle actors, theaters 2011-12-22T17:07:05Z

Clouzot’s health, which had always been fragile, may be the reason he understood so well the effect of gazing at walls, of feeling trapped. Henri-Georges Clouzot Retrospective at MoMA 2011-12-04T04:03:02Z

Points are made about honor and respect, as well as the childish nature and fragile egos of these two men. Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman": De Niro, Pacino and Pesci shine in this intimate gangster epic 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

It’s so fragile because it disappears, but it’s also thrilling because it disappears. Look to Dance to Understand the Everyday, and Other Lessons From Gia Kourlas 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

But, in the end, it’s a sturdy enough backdrop for this fragile and finally rather absorbing experiment. Angelina Jolie-Pitt's By the Sea: actually an arthouse contender 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

And, of course, whatever is now known or guessed about pterosaurs is also the result of extraordinary accidents: fragile fossils haphazardly surviving the earth’s digestive processes. Exhibition Review: Natural History Museum Explores the Wonders of Pterosaurs 2014-04-10T14:00:02Z

Who was so fragile and apprehensive and shy? At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Few of these fragile masks have survived, but a replica is on display encased in glass. Unraveling the Mystery of Who Lies Beneath the Cloth 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

When Sandra asks how she is, carefully taking a fragile, translucent arm, the older woman haltingly replies, “It’s a bit difficult at times … living.” ‘One Fine Morning’ Review: The Moments That Make Up a Rich Life 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

Arguably the show's most beautiful room brings these tendencies together in fragile, gorgeous works by three artists. New gallery adds another dimension with its spacious 'Abstract Sculpture by Women' 1947-2016 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Whether that fragile cloth holds together today, in the face of blatant defiance of election results and the rule of law, depends on our respect for every strand in the weave. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Such beings are so rare in human experience, and their habitats so distant and fragile, that they can even seem exotically angelic — or, in some cases, demonic. Exhibition Review: ?Creatures of Light? at American Museum of Natural History 2012-03-29T21:26:33Z

Surveys by his organization found that many doctors and nurses felt the wish had a physical benefit to the patient, and most families said a wish strengthened the entire family at a fragile time. WWE superstar John Cena grants 300th Make-A-Wish 2012-06-20T22:06:08Z

There is a tonal ambiguity to the bumptious romantic pursuit that follows, a surprisingly tremulous and fragile air, which may be what dismayed critics who were expecting a more conventional drama. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Dylan’s vocal sounds uncharacteristically fragile, and Langhorne’s guitar becomes a generous and soothing counterpoint: sweet and assured in the beauty of all things, even deep pain. Farewell to the Tambourine Man 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

In the book’s last chapter he comes to the conclusion that there are spiritual compensations for the fragile comforts of the acting life. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Frank Langella Telling Tales 2012-04-12T19:11:46Z

“How did he think of that utterly fragile combination of words?” she thought. The famous and famously vain men of Carly Simon's 'Boys in the Trees' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Beyond these inconvenient facts, wine itself is entirely a man made product, no less than peanut butter but far more fragile. A New Restaurant, Frenchette, Stands Up for Natural Wines 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

This latest dig from Scarborough is sure to ruffle the real estate mogul’s fragile feathers. #AmnestyDon: Joe Scarborough releases parody song mocking Donald Trump 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

The scale is human: fragile, unglamorous, bruised and still holding on. Review: Lori McKenna’s Gentle Rue Shimmers on ‘The Bird & the Rifle’ 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

But Greenberg's play does keep us guessing throughout, and is at its best when it is most fragile and enigmatic. The American Plan – review 2013-07-12T18:18:25Z

Wyszomirska’s pictures appear fluid and fragile, but they might outlast their inspiration. In the galleries: A testament to Australia’s indigenous people, and to an artist 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

“Personal freedom is a scarce and fragile commodity.” This Season’s Best Books on Hollywood 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

If anything, the fragile joys of parenthood have only attuned her further to joy's flipside. Julia Davis: laughing in the dark 2012-08-10T22:00:36Z

A Victorian wax still life of decaying fruit, preserved in a glass bell jar, was deemed too fragile to make the trip across town. Art Review: Art Imitates Movies in a Series of Scenes 2010-12-23T22:22:15Z

The other end of the rope would remain firmly attached to Thomson’s corpse, thus securing the already rather fragile body in the shallow waters. Finding Tom Thomson’s body: The mysterious death of a famous Canadian artist 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

And what are the best strategies for training children to be polite, to pay attention to the world around them, whether they are in dim lighting with fragile dishware or at home? Eat, Drink, Be Nice: Teaching Children Manners 2012-12-27T17:30:04Z

Did he give it back, as Chandra suggests in her cross-examination, because its existence implies that Naz might be too physically fragile to be the kind of brute who could stab a woman 22 times? “The Night Of” recap: Are we closer to discovering the truth? 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

The other day I felt fragile and sad. Perspective | Ask Amy: Overwhelmed person struggles to be heard 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z

When Lady Danbury expresses her optimistic belief in the power of love, the duke is more circumspect, countering that Black progress is fragile and dependent on the whims of whichever white king is in charge. ‘Bridgerton’ Takes On Race. But Its Core Is Escapism. 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

It’s for the best, he tells himself, for their emotionally fragile son, Nat. Books of The Times: Scott Turow?s ?Innocent? Catches Up With Rusty Sabich 2010-04-29T20:51:00Z

I wish I’d known just how fragile my technology was when I visited St. George, Utah, on a one-week tour of the state’s national parks. Perspective | Don’t use your phone in the bathroom — and other ways to keep your devices safe while traveling 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

One can imagine countless other species — and our own fragile renaissance — faltering back into the dour scenario that we students mulled on those gloomy nights. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z

In the waters around nearby Zanzibar, overfishing and booming tourist numbers are causing long-term damage to fragile marine ecosystems. Chumbe Island, sea sanctuary 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

His paintings are brash, giant, overwhelming — but also fragile and, in most cases, immobile. 3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

So many winged aluminum cartons of fragile eggs. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

A conservation assessment done when they first arrived at the Ransom Center in the 1980s deemed them too fragile to display. Iconic 'Gone With the Wind' dress faded forever 2011-07-20T11:31:05Z

The idea that Israel generates so many wistful what-ifs is itself a sign of the country’s fraught and fragile existence. Review: ‘Killing the King,’ on the Murder That Claimed a Peace Process 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

It’s up to her to ensure that the sometimes fragile reels of film show up onscreen in the way they were intended. This Labor Day, We Salute the (Arts) Workers 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

She is protective of the fragile clothing; she installed her Paris loans herself, and she discourages anyone tempted to wear vintage pieces. Antiques: For Fans of Sendak, the Artist Keeps Giving 2013-08-01T19:05:16Z

They are personal and yet systematic, fragile and yet nourishing. Weekend in Los Angeles: That Touch of Brazil 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Her choice to join a dating site in fragile health was odd timing, she knows. Matters of the Heart Precede Love and Marriage in Florida 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

A talented multisport athlete, Colin has his pick of baseball scholarship offers but really wants to play football, though coaches worry that he’s too gangly and fragile. Review: ‘Colin in Black & White’ Finds Kaepernick Before He Took a Knee 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

If they seem fragile, perhaps it’s because they are. Protecting fragile bird species, one garden at a time

We see someone who is real and fragile. New biopic explores Bruce Lee's life before fame 2010-10-28T03:35:00Z

"The performing arts is a fragile business. Sometimes people have to make tough choices to build a sustainable model," Moore said when asked about the recent program cuts, after her hiring was announced last week. Music Center cuts back its arts education at schools 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

The plan reflects Obama's view that the nation's economic recovery is so fragile that long-term deficit reduction must be preceded by short-term stimulus, to be bankrolled partly by the wealthiest Americans. Voters like mix of more taxes, less spending 2012-02-15T03:09:00Z

Tribal colors and embroideries may conjure Katmandu, but hollowed-out tree trunks, rhythmically cascading fountains and the scent of myrrh evoke a fragile fairyland. | ABC Carpet & Home: ABC Carpet & Home: the Name Belies the Exoticism 2010-05-04T23:40:00Z

She's on the lookout for any abrasions, tears or stains her fragile cargo might have sustained in transit. The Italian Renaissance drawings at the British Museum show what lies beneath 2010-04-04T20:30:00Z

The guys were sweaty and naked and fragile and after the first take, I covered them with a blanket and reset everything. Li Cheng on making "José," an epic gay love story set in Guatemala 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

Even the grueling agony of "Breaking Bad" and the dark wit of "Dexter" have nothing on Matthew Weiner's exquisitely rendered portrait of fragile souls trapped in the lives of repressed longing. The Emmys: Who should win? 2010-08-28T00:20:00Z

Small, clever musicals are fragile things, though, and I don’t want to oversell this one in praising it. Review: Double, Double, Burger and Trouble in ‘Scotland, PA’ 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

There, she commiserated with scared parents about the deep love and “absolute terror” you feel “because you know that this little, fragile life is depending on you.” Jill Biden has become the premier vaccine ambassador from a worried White House 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Even then, I started thinking about the supply chain of medications from China, how fragile those chains can be, and started checking the refill dates on my prescriptions. Marriage in the time of coronavirus: Sheltering in place, together, in the U.S. outbreak epicenter 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z

The ornament was extraordinary, yet it was a column of a dress suspended from a silvered shoulder line, rather than the fragile multi-embellished dresses that marked the collection. 2010-01-27T13:08:00Z

Soon there would be a stone to replace the metal marker, with a permanent Jiminy Cricket to replace this fragile one, along with a compromise epitaph for us both. 2010-01-15T21:13:00Z

In these half-historical soap operas, the heroes are decisive, brave, glorious, but the polities they lead are fragile, teetering, menaced by outsiders. How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

But his best work, as proved by a surprising exhibition at Japan Society, reveals the self as a rickety thing, and national identity as even more fragile. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

She was fragile, but life might have worked out for her if she’d met the right man. Atticus Lish’s Second Novel Is a Brooding Heartbreaker 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

The fungi grow tiny, fragile strands called hyphae. The zoo beneath our feet: We’re only beginning to understand soil’s hidden world 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Eastwood needed an actor of commanding stature to deliver weakness, then rage, then fragile strength, and Bates has deservedly earned the lion’s share of the movie’s acclaim. Kathy Bates: 'I told Clint that after 50 years, I feel like I've hit the big time' 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The wooden materials are matched by wooden movement, and fragile constructions serve as a decent metaphor for psychological ones. Dance Review: Rachel Cohen and Jody Sperling Perform at Danspace 2013-06-28T21:49:57Z

As millions migrated north to factory jobs, the communities that sprouted up around those factories were vibrant but fragile. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

“She has a lot of relevance for people around the world when things feel rather fragile,” Blunt told Reuters of the character. 'Mary Poppins' return brings world some magic, cast say 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Founded by Adam Lowe, the company specializes in constructing facsimiles of fragile art works for conservation purposes using computer imaging techniques combined with traditional craft skills. Review: Piranesi's Elevated Etchings 2010-10-20T11:22:00Z

A fragile beauty, Thaxter was never a show-off, but made an impact in a gentle way, frequently portraying wholesome, devoted wives and girlfriends. Phyllis Thaxter 2012-08-17T16:53:51Z

The fragile leather-bound volumes have been kept in a dark vault for about four decades to keep them from falling apart. Mother’s scrapbooks give peek into Hemingway’s early life 2013-07-20T21:29:25Z

"The living ocean is very fragile," said another. TV review: Horizon: The Death of the Oceans? 2010-10-04T22:00:00Z

“No. I knew she was fragile, but I didn’t know what mental health problems were.” Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

Her affect was half brassy, half fragile, heavy on the id. Bella Thorne, the Ex-Disney Star, Chillaxes With Yarn 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

Our destination was the Stratford Hall cliffs, tawny and fragile, a geological wonder: fluted stone curtains striped with deposits of sedimentary strata that form the remaining bed of an ancient sea. Virginia’s Lost History 2012-11-22T18:48:32Z

Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon Pirate Prentice's flat fills with "the fragile, musaceous odour of Breakfast, permeating, suprising, more than the color of winter sunlight". Ten of the best breakfasts in literature 2010-04-16T23:07:00Z

No matter who does the general packing, plan to pack and move fragile items, jewelry, framed art and other especially valuable belongings yourself. Moving soon? Here’s how to find the best deal and avoid common mistakes. 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Instead of any half-crazed wonder, when Ansari walks into the lobby of New York's Bowery hotel, he looks slight and almost fragile, practically hiding behind his carton of coconut water. Aziz Ansari: mouth of the south 2011-02-16T21:30:00Z

The upshot is that it will no longer be loaned to other museums, as it's now deemed too fragile to travel. The rock super-group of collections 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

The library said around two million of these are fragile and rare recordings. Campaign to save UK sound archive 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Cruise lines have also been criticized for their contributions to overtourism, especially when large ships dock in fragile places like Dubrovnik or Venice and send a flood of thousands of passengers ashore, overwhelming destinations. How Green is Your Cruise? 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

I found myself feeling envious of rabbits as the vet explained Judy’s fragile physiology. Keeping This Fluffy, Fragile Beast Alive 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

The furniture companies, which come from all over the world to show at the fair, are equally fragile after three bruising years of recession. Design: Milan's Furniture Whirlwind 2011-04-18T14:01:14Z

But Boyle, for all her artlessness, may not be so thoroughly fragile after all. Susan Boyle's awkward, cringe-inducing stardom 2010-12-01T16:02:00Z

“We have to be bold,” even when we are feeling fragile. From Plagues to Floods to Black Tuesday, Fashion Goes On 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

The fact that it delivered the sound with a patina of grainy static only made the music more fragile and precious, the experience more moving. Opera Over the Phone Offers Passion in a Pandemic 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

In other words, the fewer tourists trampling over the fragile natural beauty, and the more money they’ll pay to do so, the better. In Iceland, Seeking a Luxury Hotel Amid the Rustic Charm 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The rest of “Worthy” came when the veteran emcee “just started ranting” on Father’s Day, thinking about Black dads lost to a “fragile, racist system.” Seattle musicians tell the stories of our historic year through song 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

At the same time, technicians able to repair fragile neon tubes are more difficult to find than ever and their services are becoming pricier, shopkeepers complain. Hong Kong’s fight to save its neon shimmer – a photo essay 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

There was no emergency – I was simply so overwhelmed at being left alone to look after her, and she looked so fragile that I didn’t want to hurt her by bending her delicate little arms. My girlfriend and I thought she had appendicitis – then she gave birth 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

She previously attempted suicide at least three times, and her fragile state of mindwas always a concern to family and friends. Ex-boyfriend: McCready left rehab too soon 2013-02-19T00:54:15Z

At the more cuddly end of the spectrum, it’s the heart-chilling anxiety that children are so psychologically fragile that without near constant attention they will suffer long-term emotional damage. Stop fetishising parenting - you’re sucking all the joy out of it! 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

St-Germain liqueur — made from fragile elderflower blossoms that bloom in the Alps just a few weeks each year — is on seemingly every cocktail menu from New York City to the Hamptons these days. Noticed: St-Germain Liqueur Puts Alpine Nectar in Every Glass 2010-07-16T18:16:00Z

But for the most part Rakitin seems like a disinterested bystander at the destruction of the fragile romantic equilibrium he’s spent years establishing with Natalya. Taylor Schilling and Peter Dinklage in ‘A Month in the Country’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

But as in any dynamic art form, it is out there on the fragile, precarious leading edge that the most exciting new growth often occurs. He built a ragtag theater into an American trendsetter. Now Woolly Mammoth’s founder is retiring. 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

“The Perfect American” is pretty much all Walt all the time, and for that, Justin Ryan’s overbearing yet fragile portrayal has the vocal and physical charisma, as well as the dramatic range. An opera about Walt Disney, in commuting distance of Disneyland 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Fashion is a tough, cruel business, but it is also a fragile ecosystem. On the Runway Blog: Making Magic at Saint Laurent 2012-03-06T09:34:06Z

He reassured me I wasn’t as fragile as I felt that day. The Wisdom of the Moving Man 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Her agent insisted that she was too "fragile" to survive making The Dreamers. 'Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes' 2010-04-02T12:17:00Z

All you can blame is the fragile frame of the thoroughbred horse, which was created for racing. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z

But the result of these quirky elements is less a true-crime dramatization than a fantastical exploration of an emotionally fragile criminal whose misdeeds appear to have been driven by a sense of her own victimization. In ‘Landscapers,’ True Crime Meets Hollywood Fantasy 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

There are many more diverse images that Herzog's specially rigged camera can't reach due to the vast cave's extremely fragile ecology. 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams': Werner Herzog's priceless look at 32,000-year-old art 2011-05-05T23:52:06Z

She soothed my fragile nerves, checked the room and came back down to explain, calmly, that I was out of my mind. The Ghost Was the Least of Our Problems 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

Which may be partly why the foothold that African-Americans manage to gain in Hollywood from one generation to the next can seem so fragile, and progress so easily reversible. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

My boyfriend, let’s call him AB, is also fragile and very anxious about the world and the state of his body. Will marriage make me happy? 2012-10-03T00:00:00Z

Although others felt she was still quite fragile and thin, Herb Alpert, who had first signed the Carpenters to A&M, saw Karen shortly after the New Year and recalled her looking terrific. Karen Carpenter's tragic story 2010-10-23T23:03:00Z

The guitarist Bill Frisell brought together a trio on Friday night to play some of that music at the Allen Room of Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the performance projected a much more fragile feeling. Music Review: Bill Frisell and Friends Play Venerable Country Tunes 2014-01-19T22:08:32Z

The gains were fragile, Kuttner writes, “built on circumstances and luck more than enduring structural change.” Steps in the Left Direction 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Reporters say they are aware of the fragile state of their daily work. A ‘strange and eerie time’ for White House reporters — and a risky one, too 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

But I am here in this nondescript building at the edge of the City of London to see something else, a collection of fragile carved fragments of ivory, small enough to fit into your palm. The Begram ivories: Rescuing Afghanistan's lost history 2011-02-27T00:05:25Z

In this story, as in her other work, the young protagonists project both the plucky curiosity of Nancy Drew and the fragile innocence of a sleeping Snow White. Holly Andres’s Adolescent Fairy Tales 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

The technique makes the flauto’s exterior more fragile than an eggshell. Is Lodi Too Good for Rockefeller Center? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Planet earth is fragile, and it is a dangerous place. "They are both lying": Claire Denis on creating ambiguous tension between her "Stars at Noon" lovers 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z

As with any three-hour marathon, a fragile euphoria clung to the survivors. Nico Muhly: A Scream and an Outrage – review 2013-05-13T17:31:36Z

Once solid forms are now fragile, and in spots transparent, shells. ‘Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Ms. Dermont uses a measured, incisive, not all that boyish voice to present discerning character sketches of Jason’s new comrades, who range from thuggish to fragile. Books of The Times: ?The Starboard Sea,? a Novel by Amber Dermont 2012-02-28T23:57:01Z

The engineering situation in his skull was just too fragile for the pressure. Quincy Jones' long and restless song 2011-01-02T06:00:00Z

The traditionally romantic, getting-to-know-you elements of the film are the most conventional, but even within them it's clear that both of these people are still a little fragile and off-kilter. Review: `Upstream Color' a bold, artful challenge 2013-04-01T19:21:08Z

Smaller-brained and more fragile than their stout, adaptable Neanderthal competitors, modern humans, improbably, prevail. Review | After explaining the universe, Bill Bryson turns his attention to the body 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Note: Much of the exhibit lighting is dim to protect the fragile drawings and newsprint, and some of the labeling is in an unusually small font. Pootwaddles and Dunklewimps: Rube Goldberg’s glorious cartoons at MoPOP 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

But the right to an abortion in the United States “is so fragile,” they said, “and I see its fragility even closer now.” They rushed to get IUDs before Trump took office. Five years later, would they do it again? 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

But an eclectic, bohemian and welcoming community of artists is drawn to the fragile terrain, wide vistas and tranquility, and has forged a good life in this giant sandbox. Forget Coachella, there’s a vibrant, more affordable music scene around Joshua Tree. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

When the clothes are just from the oven, they are all fragile, but then six months later, I am used to them. Barneys Celebrates Alber Elbaz?s Decade at Lanvin 2012-04-04T17:01:47Z

A breakthrough came in the early 1960s when he experimented with painting on glass, but found it too fragile. Craig Kauffman, Sculptor in Plastic, Dies at 78 2010-05-15T04:10:00Z

This is Nina, the fragile but brilliant dancer played superbly by Natalie Portman, who perfectly suggests the neurotic dancer's discipline and repression of self. A dance of death at the Venice film festival 2010-09-05T21:00:00Z

But he always seems at ease, whether muttering asides in the playful “Cabaret,” pleading in falsetto during “Take Back the Night” or playing it fragile in “Pair of Wings.” Justin Timberlake, 'The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2' review 2013-09-30T05:20:00Z

She was drawn to fragile populations like Tibetan boys who had been selected as reincarnated lamas and a dying Gallic community on Tory Island, off Ireland. Martine Franck, Documentary Photographer, Dies at 74 2012-08-23T04:57:28Z

“We're so delicate and so fragile and so individual,” he said. Actors explore their feminine sides to portray the cross-dressers of 'Casa Valentina' 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

After intense pressure from the airline industry, which said the proposed measures would stall its fragile recovery, the administration backed off, saying a decision on further restrictions was not imminent. Perspective | Evolving restrictions have travelers on edge 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

“The history is fragile, but it’s not lost.” Faustin Linyekula: Remember His Name (and Country and Past) 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Delius is an incredibly tragic figure, both fragile and brutal. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

But her military file and the other papers also show Hester to have been a tormented woman, resilient yet psychologically fragile. The Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Conservators work on paintings and other fragile items in one corner and on large, wooden pieces in another. Lonnie Bunch has eight months to get ready for African American museum opening. Here’s his to-do list. 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

By dint of hard work, she got it. On a hill above the restaurant, a quarter-acre of garden produces salad greens, soft herbs and other fragile ingredients for the menu. A Trip to the Saltry Restaurant in Alaska 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

It was brittle and lined with permanent creases when it was acquired and is now so fragile that it will likely disintegrate if handled. Iconic 'Gone With the Wind' dress faded forever 2011-07-20T11:31:05Z

Glancing up, you notice a fragile Georgian fanlight, or a warm scoop of terra-cotta tiling, or a glint of colored glass. Book Excerpt: ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Along the way, Rosalía presents herself as fragile at one moment and invincible the next. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

To sing slower I had to raise the key up, which made it more fragile and vulnerable sounding. Emmylou Harris returns to 'Wrecking Ball' 2014-04-03T21:36:00Z

But a high A — a combination of genetic gifts, rigorous training and psychological discipline over two fragile vocal cords — is monumental, and unprecedented at the Met, according to its archivists. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

He spent those years tending to another fragile ecosystem, the Republican Party. Trump got evicted from ‘the swamp.’ Some of his people are trying to stick around. 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

However brief and fragile her moment of hope, however anguished those last months of her life, Plath recognised the timeless incandescence of her achievement. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

Was my ego so fragile that I could not endure another three years of rejections before some story would reach a reader who would connect with it? Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z

It’s quite fragile orchestration; there’s not a lot of doubling. Thomas Adès on His Tricky Opera Adaptation of a Buñuel Film 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

I was shown how fragile life was on Saturday. Movies, Twitter and Community, After Aurora’s Dark Night 2012-07-20T17:43:48Z

Across Walker’s album, the moments of turmoil and aggression are offset by more times when she’s fragile and sensual. Summer Walker’s Sex-Positive R. & B. 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

But most cathedrals exemplify the idea of continual evolution and renewal; they are sturdy, vulnerable, fragile and resilient, and it is social architecture that keeps them standing, not piers, arches or buttresses. Perspective | Great cathedrals burn, collapse and crack. Notre Dame can survive this. 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z

Most of the recordings purchased from Mr. Fass are on fragile quarter-inch acetate or mylar tape that is already deteriorating. Digitizing ‘Radio Unnameable,’ a Free-Form 1960s Crossroads 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

These people tend to be psychologically fragile in the face of failure and therefore avoid the experience at all costs. Why You Shouldn't Do Your Child's Homework 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

End Of Love continues these themes, exploring elusive loves and fragile memories with tragicomic aplomb. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-18T00:08:35Z

He decided that protest an anthem authored by a slavery protagonist that lays a fragile promise of freedom and equality was his best option. Colin The Lionheart: Kaepernick is pushing the envelope for black male athletes 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

But it is the finale, Mahler’s ode to love, that pulls at the memory — a miracle of phrasing; a quiet wonder of string tone and balance; a paean to a devotion tender, fragile and deep. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

But it's the faces of these two lonely, fragile people that redeem the monotony of their voyage as Frankie's physical pain worsens and Irene's compassion grows. 'Barking Water': A couple reconnect on their final road trip together 2010-04-15T20:45:00Z

“Lucas’ immune system is so fragile right now that we need to limit his exposure to the outside world, and this means as a family we need to do this as well,” Lindsay said. Woman, ex-husband and her current partner buy new house together with their 4 kids 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Curator Kathy A. Foster says the works are so fragile that institutions don’t like to lend them out. 'American Watercolor' showcases masterpieces of movement 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

“She was fragile,” recalled one companion, “but she used aggressiveness as a shield. She attacked first. As a result, Americans were often terrified of her.” A new biography gets Oriana Fallaci the way people who knew her couldn't 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

“The Queen of Versailles,” a new documentary by Lauren Greenfield about life on the thin, fragile, sugarcoated top layer of the upper crust, captures the tone of the times with a clear, surprisingly compassionate eye. Review: ‘The Queen of Versailles’ by Lauren Greenfield 2012-07-19T16:06:31Z

But Wilder was actually shaking up Broadway by deconstructing long-entrenched stage conventions, and crafting a boldly frank rumination on death and loss in counterpoint to the fragile beauty of everyday life. ‘Middletown’ at ACT: A little Thornton Wilder, a little Beckett 2013-09-09T21:26:13Z

Elmosnino is very good at showing how sensitive Gainsbourg is about his looks, how self-conscious and even vain he is: fragile, sensitive, defiant. Film review: Gainsbourg (Vie H?ro?que) 2010-07-29T21:25:00Z

A smear of chicken liver is sandwiched between thin, quarter-size crackers that reinforce their filling; the fragile coins get their flavor from chicken fat and skin. Patowmack Farm: Fresh from the ground — and from a chef’s imagination

But finger bones, so small and fragile, don’t easily realign, and it’s an occupational impairment. When I hit a girl 2014-04-09T23:00:00Z

The visual effect was sensational: molten and spiky, monstrous and fragile. The Eyes Have It in Hew Locke’s Power-Challenging Show 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Townsend Creamery, served with raisins on the vine, fragile sesame-and-salt-crusted crackers and a honeycomb. Terra Vista at the Snoqualmie Casino offers big portions, breathtaking views, hefty prices 2010-06-24T21:53:00Z

Some women wear tight clothes that hamper free movement, fragile clothes, clothes you can trip over. Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

The staff had to carefully consider how to display the fragile item, which bears the marks of time in stains and holes and worn patches. A humble skirt worn by an enslaved child finds a place in history 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s the first time we’ve had a real sense of how fragile democracy is.” This is California in the era of Trump 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

"Rather than show her as an opera-singer who is a fragile, damaged woman in deep trouble, I presented her as a fragile, damaged woman in deep trouble who is also an opera singer." Tony Palmer: he's with the band 2013-07-28T18:00:00Z

The superstar pianist Lang Lang, who joined the ensemble on the tour, his first with Barenboim in a decade, said that it was difficult to see his longtime mentor in such a fragile state. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

"I think I don't control that, it's inside me. I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility." French actor Romain Duris is a man of many moods 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Because a woman’s youth, he explained, “is a fragile and diminishing resource.” Stop Telling Women Our Most Valuable Asset Is Our Youth 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Attorney Bradley Brunon, who represents Eroshevich, 63, said in a written motion that she acted in good faith, and "with proper medical motives to assist a fragile and suffering person." No prison time sought in Anna Nicole Smith case 2011-01-05T18:56:08Z

In the absence of blockbusters, small, audacious movies have popped up like mushrooms on a forest floor — signs of life amid the general decay, but fragile and too easily overlooked or trampled underfoot. How Much Do You Really Miss Going to the Movies? 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

This show, presented as part of the London International Mime Festival, may be fragile, but what's intriguing is how it borrows more from the techniques of experimental theatre than it does from the big top. Popcorn Machine 2013-01-15T12:35:23Z

The 90 photographs are among the few fragile salt prints that survive, and are seldom shown in public. See Nelson's Column under construction 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

You’ll often hear them deploy a fragile, organic timbre over something synthetic and ominous. Playlist: New CDs: Albatrosh, Trio M, Charlie Haden and Hank Jones 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z

Yvette Mimieux, who found stardom in the early 1960s portraying delicate, fragile women in “The Time Machine,” “Where the Boys Are” and other films, died on Monday night at her home in Los Angeles. Yvette Mimieux, Who Found Fame With ‘The Time Machine,’ Dies at 80 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

Thin and fragile, she had no idea how old she was, but looked to Kristof about 14. Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide 2010-08-18T23:05:00Z

Maybe he was also trying to ensure that we handled the book gently, as it was full of fragile envelopes and easily misplaced enclosures. Griffin and Sabine’s magical return 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

But when Levee’s own career ambitions put him at odds with the group, its fragile infrastructure threatens to implode. Viola Davis and Company on ‘Ma Rainey’ and Chadwick Boseman’s Last Bow 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

Here is a one-sentence review of “American Sniper”: the martial virtues are so precious, rare, and fragile that they should be sent into combat only with the greatest caution. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

“I’m very fragile,” she said, slumping over a table. They Get Paid to Have a Catalog-Perfect Summer 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z

They’re physically fragile, on multiple occasions overpowered by the comparatively slight Grace. Rich territory: how class warfare is taking over the multiplex 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

In that fragile falsetto that became his public speaking voice, Michael decried his haters long before it was cool to have haters, playing his charitable side to an advantage. Review | A devastating and credible ‘Leaving Neverland’ will turn you off Michael Jackson for good 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Those fragile and easily broken toys were a market flop. 1888 Edison recording may be 1st talking doll try 2011-07-14T20:39:07Z

But Binoche, looking handsome and almost fragile in a tailored black pantsuit, gives off no hint of bogus pretension or of the diffident, superior boredom that emanates from other French movie stars. Juliette Binoche on her new Tuscan-seductress role 2011-03-12T22:01:00Z

Radical French cities vied with a conservative countryside for control of a fragile new republic. Spring uprising 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Replicas of the pyramids sit on a table, a final comment on memory – how fragile it is, how reducible to cheap souvenirs. Artist Andy Holden makes a marvellous mountain out of a misdemeanour | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-19T16:11:00Z

As for Tommen, well, the poor fragile kid could go at any time. 'Game of Thrones' Season 5 Premiere Recap: Stannis Emerging, Tyrion Unboxed 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Ms. Wilde, who gets most of the camera time, is convincingly fragile as Sarah, a teacher who is slowly becoming unmoored. Review: ‘Meadowland,’ a Missing-Child Story Centered on the Parents 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

And then there was Twombly's work, which was introspective and fragile. Knockout. Hero. Genius: Cy Twombly 2011-07-06T20:30:03Z

Rejection leads to narcissistic rage when a need for control reveals a fragile ego. The problem with ‘unfriending’ 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

Portrayed with a fragile sensitivity by Dan Stevens, David is a man who is never completely sure of where or when he is, or whether anyone in his life is real. Believe your eyes: FX’s “Legion” is an extraordinary trip inside of a hero’s subjective reality 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

Ms. Close is even better than when I first saw her — more fragile and more frightening, more seriously comic and tragic. Review: That ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Close-Up, Finely Focused 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Arriving at their Libyan departure point after an arduous trek through the desert during which they are robbed by bandits, they discover that their guide expects them to pilot a fragile, overcrowded vessel by themselves. Review: ‘Mediterranea,’ African Migrants’ Perilous Trek to a Hostile Land 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

The Ferber and Motherwell are on loan from Millburn; the museum owns the Gottlieb, because its textiles are too fragile for ritual use. | 'Modern Art, Sacred Space': Daring Expressions in ?Modern Art, Sacred Space? 2010-04-08T21:43:00Z

“If it can seem as if the whole thing is a fragile, ridiculous construction, then let everyone see it. Things are in flux, they are at all times. I let that take precedence,” Jaar adds. Darkside returns to lay claim to the title of best psychedelic rock band in the world 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

We don't get any of Carrey's humor or Smith's fragile humanity disrupted by madness. Rating the Batman’s Riddler: Did Paul Dano surpass what’s been done? 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

At birth, panda cubs are blind, deaf and extremely fragile, making them very needy. Panda keepers switch from being hopeful to having their hands full 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

It is a bit cracked and fragile, but it is so precious to me that I am afraid to take it out of its frame so it can be restored. Robert Caro Relaxes by Listening to People Drum in Central Park 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

We are fragile beings and life is a blessing. Watch: Joseph Arthur's 'Robin (A Tribute to Robin Williams)' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

It reminds me of a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale: it’s almost naively adolescent in its expression of falling in love, being obsessed with something delicate and fragile. 'Trump made me do it': director Nicolas Winding Refn on how the American apocalypse is fuelling 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

On Sunday afternoon, bathed in natural light, the canvases were more serene in their looming brooding, and “Monochromatic Light” felt calmer, too, a touch more fragile. Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

Her public and private lives are stacked, and Jean carries both like fragile cargo. ‘Blue Jean’ Review: No Privacy in the Girls’ Locker Room 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

I am a little less fragile now and settling into my instincts with bookmaking. Memorable moments from creators of kids' books 2011-07-09T01:01:08Z

The second period, spanning five decades, was more earnest, taken up primarily with delineating the fragile bonds between callous men and wounded women and the bitter contests between women. Fay Weldon, British Novelist Who Challenged Feminist Orthodoxy, Dies at 91 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Celebrating the 70th birthday of a crucial contemporary composer, Salvatore Sciarrino, whose fragile music pushes technical boundaries, this new-music collective plays five works spanning the last 40 years of his output. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

The counsellor Ella was seeing at this time noted that she looked fragile, and seemed defeated, and that she was still determined to lose more weight. ‘Knowing it could kill you isn’t a deterrent’: the deadly trade in diet pills 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

He and the performers he brought to Denton for the festival are part of the group trying to transmit this fragile knowledge. A Servant of Rhythm From Ghana, in Texas 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

It’s called Smash Hit, and it unfolds as a guided first-person shooter in which the player has to fire heavy metal balls at fragile objects. Reviews: Smash Hit, Castlevania, Calculords and Threes! 2014-03-18T22:00:41Z

Although she seemed a little fragile, she prevailed, singing in sweet, straining and soulful tones about troubled waters, prayer and hope. Bill Clinton and Aretha Franklin Toast Elton John’s AIDS Charity 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

The drawings are more tentative and fragile, the pencilled ghosts of the stones sometimes barely insisting on the paper. As if by chance 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

But floating weightlessly in the space station, it looks fragile, even magical — not unlike the planet beyond. A Space Odyssey: Making Art Up There 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

By their nature artistic and fragile people, they see themselves treated like commodities, bought and dispensed with as the corporate house pleases. Everyone Is Guilty for the Fashion Muddle 2012-02-26T18:31:49Z

But films are fragile things that often exist only fleetingly in their definitive state. Film Riches, Cleaned Up for Posterity 2010-10-14T22:49:00Z

His social awkwardness is written right into the flat tunelessness of his voice, yet he’s the one who best understands the fragile relationship between his vessel and the threatening seas. Review: Chris Pine Rescues The Finest Hours 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

If you’re ever in D.C., request permission to see his fragile artwork that I donated to Smithsonian Archive of American Art. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z

“It was simultaneously baroque, poetic and fragile,” said Mr. Perrotin, the contemporary art dealer. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A French Artist's Solitary Path 2011-10-13T11:00:14Z

As fragile as the Sphinx's face, as transient as the northern lights, as disconcertingly faecal as Seahenge, this irreplaceable part of our gaseous heritage is literally in danger of being blown out to sea. David Mitchell on new World Heritage sites 2011-03-27T00:05:36Z

It does not open with the big, sweeping gestures of an emotional outpouring, but with a fragile drooping line. Eugene Onegin: unchain my heart 2013-01-02T19:30:04Z

That may be true of Less’s novels, but it’s not true of this one, which eventually rewards Less’s fragile optimism in the most charming way. Do we really need another novel about a novelist? Yes — this one is delightful. 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

They found that each of the album’s fragile pages was laced with arsenic. Digitized Silhouette Portraits Shed Light on 19th Century Life 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

But what followed was a fascinating play on textures with moments of fit-to-burst tension, pulsating with microtonal heat, that eventually led to a delicate, fragile ending. Review: New Juilliard Ensemble Embraces Rilke 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

We realize now how precarious, how fragile a claim like that really is. When Love Isn’t as Simple as Standing by Your Man 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

I can also feel really fragile and sad. How Banks Found Her Voice on Her New Album The Altar 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Fife explains the sculpture is one in "a series of iconic cardboard heads" examining "giants, flawed and fragile." Review: From micro-detail to grand overview, from figurative to abstract, group show discloses local arts talent 2010-06-25T21:32:00Z

Hair that is naturally curly is also fragile. What Black Women Need to Know About Hair Loss 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

In addition, Edith's state of health is as fragile as the archaeological site. Netflix's gorgeous "Dig" loses sight of its own discoveries in favor of soapy period melodrama 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

After years of ups and downs, Sally's fraught relationship with Betty — who once threatened to cut off her fingers — has reached a fragile détente. Women of 'Mad Men' make a strong impression amid their fight for change 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The mothers in this book are often distant or dead, and Siegrist gives tender treatment to these fragile, abandoned men and boys. New Southern Fiction By Percival Everett, Wiley Cash and Andrew Siegrist 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

With its delicate calligraphy, translucent screens and fragile objects ceremonially presented on plinths, Ono's aesthetic appears strikingly Japanese. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z

Dozens of them, scattered in their fragile shells all over the sculpture plaza adjacent to the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles. With raw eggs and a roomful of clay, Anna Maria Maiolino makes unsentimental art about being a woman 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

As a boy, Mr. Wilder was warned by a doctor that if he directed anger toward his emotionally fragile mother, it might kill her. Gene Wilder, actor known for nimble comic portrayals of neurotics, dies at 83 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

And somehow this pebble of sympathy was enough to shatter my fragile reserve. My drinking years: ‘Everyone has blackouts, don’t they?’ 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

That longevity may be the surest sign in an unstable economic climate that the city’s venerable but fragile cabaret tradition is not about to bite the dust. Music Review: New York Cabaret Convention at Rose Hall - Review 2011-10-21T23:34:33Z

The buzz: "Amelia's woozy, fragile vocals are the centrepiece of the track while gentle, haunting keys and soft percussive beats lull you to a dreamy and beautiful state" – elbo.ws/post/3555001/elephant-new-music-introducing. New band of the day ? No 1,055: Elephant 2011-07-05T16:56:17Z

I loved Kim in “L.A Confidential;” she was on the surface fragile and weak, but had his inner core strength. Kim Basinger on her “11th Hour” role: “I wanted to portray being maternal, which is so powerful and innate in a woman’s psyche” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

At work, my primary tools would be paper — a kind of very, very thin, stiff, dry, fragile fabric for writing on — pens, and my landline desk phone. 1994 Was a Prison of My Own Making 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

“As we circle around the sun in a frigid, lifeless void,” he narrates in the space episode, “the Earth protects its fragile cargo: life as we know it.” What’s on TV Saturday: ‘It’ and ‘Liquid Science’ 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

“Motherless Brooklyn,” with its interest in connectivity, might be read as a celebration of “consensual reality,” that which we create together and hold between us, “fragile and elastic . . . like the skin of a bubble.” In “The Feral Detective,” Jonathan Lethem Returns to Detective Noir for the Trump Era 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

What remains could be proof of the Divine or simply the prelude to a tale of how one financially fragile man turned his son’s imaginings — and maybe some of his own — into a phenomenon. Movie Review: ‘Heaven Is for Real’ Stars Greg Kinnear 2014-04-15T22:26:23Z

“The Irish economy was most like Humpty Dumpty — bloated, fragile, sitting smugly at a great height and headed for a fall.” His Life Was Too Boring for a Memoir. So He Wrote Ireland’s. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

In Stockholm a year ago, she still seemed fragile and anxious. The Girl Who Cast a Spell on Her Rivals 2011-06-21T11:49:28Z

Their fragile partnership is complicated by the rampant corruption and apathy of Mexican authorities and the violence of powerful borderland drug cartels. 10 summer TV shows worth watching 2013-05-31T22:38:09Z

Theresa May seems to maintain her fragile power by being the opposite of loud. In praise of loud women – the joy and power of being noisy and female 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

This conflict is at its starkest in the exhausting cadenza, where the soloist's musical personality breaks itself down to nothing before re-emerging in rampaging gestures, with a force derived from a fragile hold on despair. Prom 44: Batiashvili/Philharmonia/Salonen ? review 2011-08-18T10:35:10Z

Cousteau provides an inspirational example of passion harnessed to a noble purpose, becoming an ambassador on behalf of beleaguered and fragile ecosystems. ‘Becoming Cousteau’ Review: The Old Man and the Sea 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Van Gogh, mentally fragile and prone to violent mood swings, was fired up with childlike excitement. Van Gogh and Gauguin letter tells of artistic hopes that turned sour 2012-11-23T18:12:13Z

Researchers tried quite a few different ways to stick a tag on amorphous, fragile jelly. The Ruthless Phronima, and Other Hidden Wonders of the Sea 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Both have fragile stomachs that cause indoor accidents and sleepless nights. I hope my dogs die soon 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They wanted to borrow the work, to serve as the centerpiece of the 1977 event, but the British Museum said it was too fragile to travel. This Art Was Looted 123 Years Ago. Will It Ever Be Returned? 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

This unity seems fragile, and yet is fundamental in addressing these challenges, alongside the looming menace of climate change that threatens our very existence. Taking to the skies in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

In Rolling Stone, Will Hermes calls it “one of the grimmest, loneliest LPs ever made. There are songs about shame and death, about violent longing, with melodies sometimes fragile, sometimes shattered.” John Cale’s new society: “There’s much more sophistication in hip-hop than in regular rock ‘n’ roll” 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

And Brown is quietly arresting as a woman both fragile and imperious, slouched like a comma but with a will of steel. Review: In ‘What You Are Now,’ Memory Is a Dangerous Thing 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Instead it narrates how support from family and professionals alike led to a slow, fragile recovery. Graphic Novels With Fresh Voices From the Margins 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

The archives of wallpaper and fabric designers can be fragile; manufacturers and designers often pay little attention to old renderings, which historians appreciate as documentation of popular tastes. The David Parr House’s Hidden Gem in Cambridge, England 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

“Glass, like life, is fragile,” said Salcedo, whose sculptures and public art exhibits focusing on mourning and loss have been displayed around the world. Artist pays homage to murdered Colombia rights activists 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

The ship’s bevy of polar toys, including hovercrafts, electric snowmobiles and a tethered hot air balloon, give guests a privileged vantage point of Antarctica’s indelible and fragile beauty. New Cruise Ships to Set Sail for Antarctica 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

The lagoon itself is a fragile place, a bird sanctuary protected by a wisp of land. Vancouver Island, Through an Artist’s Eyes 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

The making of it was actually quite robust for quite a delicate, fragile set of relationships. “Refreshingly Honest”: Cate Blanchett on Working with Woody Allen 2013-07-18T16:16:38Z

Stacked in precariously high columns, the installation will be exhibited for two years as a striking and eloquent demonstration of the challenge to institutions of collecting something as fragile as pottery. Opening of Ceramics Center Coincides With Crafts Revival 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

“She can be very mysterious and very fragile and ultimately very strong as well, which is what we need,” he told Deadline. Kristen Stewart to play Princess Diana in new movie 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

This represents a negligible 6 percent failure rate, particularly remarkable in a field widely perceived to be more fragile than most. Postwar and Contemporary Sale Is Stunning Success at Christie's 2010-05-12T12:30:00Z

Online, consumers trade lists of zero-sulfate shampoos that delivered for their dry, fragile or fine hair. Skin Deep: Sulfate-Free Products Have Some in a Lather 2010-09-29T19:27:00Z

As Duff moves from febrile to fierce, she is like a creature made of glass, both fragile and unyielding. Strange Interlude; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Trash Cuisine – review 2013-06-08T23:05:35Z

Yet for such a hardy fruit, the commercial crop can seem remarkably fragile. Peaches are a minor part of Georgia’s economy, but they’re central to its mythology 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

He lamented how increased tourism is threatening the fragile ecosystem, especially on the islands. In the Netherlands, exploring the Wadden Sea — on foot 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

“Crowns are fragile things. They are symbols of power. Perhaps it’s ironic and meaningful that they fell.” Oops! A Museum Selfie Gone Wrong Causes $200,000 in Damage. 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

It never occurred to me to destroy her fragile belief. The privilege of being “invisible”: As a brown Muslim woman, my visibility comes with my Otherness 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

If her nerves are fragile, other parts are made of steel. An Artist Unites North and South Korea, Stitch by Stitch 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Some apricots, particularly the ones with a fragile, tender skin, simply dissolve into a smooth butter. When the stone-fruit season is this good, here’s how to take advantage 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

That sisterhood is complex and at times fragile, but it is always rooted in the lived experiences and bodies of these women. ‘Lingui, the Sacred Bonds’ Review: Love, Ferocious and Limitless 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

The standout “Fragile Place” pushes this uncanny feeling even further, as the band members harmonize around a repeated phrase that indicates mental unease: “Hey, in a fragile place.” Palberta Blend Big-Tent Pop and Art-Rock on ‘Palberta5000’ 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

“Concerto DSCH” and “Rodeo” look the most built to last, though other, perhaps more fragile works by those two men now seem even more marvelous in aspects of style, expression and stage sociology. Ballet After Balanchine: 3 Choreographers Lead the Way 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

He used to prospect for gold and hunt wild pigs in remote parts of Osa, both illegal activities that damage this area’s fragile ecosystem. Costa Rica: ‘the most biologically intense place on Earth’ 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Whenever Bhatnagar could spare an hour or two away from schoolwork or caring for her dad, she was at the shop, helping to fill the void her father’s absence left on the fragile family business. A teen found a way to ease her anxiety and despair: Give away thousands of books to sick children 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

As you get older, the diseases start coming, often the consequences of the things we did in our hedonistic days; we become more frail, more fragile. Marc Almond: From bedsit to plague pit 2011-07-18T20:31:01Z

We are trying to grow resilient kids, not fragile, entitled ones. How Children Have Become Their Parents' Bullies 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Saillard is adamant that these clothes are too precious and too fragile to be worn — hence the event’s title: “The Impossible Wardrobe.” Sleeping Beauties Brought to Life 2012-09-30T17:47:47Z

Harris, playing James Tyrone, an aging former matinee idol, touched his toes and did squats as he spoke, while Lange, playing his fragile, morphine-addicted wife, Mary, flitted distractedly around the room. Filming Eugene O’Neill When the Elements (and Investors) Don’t Cooperate 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

Eifman’s favorite themes, his obsessions with the fragile artist, mental instability and the cruel, cruel world — often depicted as a mob — fit neatly and logically into “Red Giselle.” Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg dances 'Red Giselle' at Segerstrom 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

The outside, fragile and crisp, segues to a gelatinous cod membrane filling. Cranes is a little Japanese, a lot Spanish and something to look at 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Tuesday night at Knockdown Center in Queens, nearly 2,000 people were handed something fragile and entrusted — implicitly implored — not to break it. Jai Paul Emerges, Tentatively, for His First Headlining Concert 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

They started with vintage teacups but found them a bit too fragile and instead found a new bold floral design by Brew to A Tea on Amazon that was perfect. The dish: Why vintage tableware is making a comeback in restaurants and homes 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

The reading solidified the sometimes fragile connection between father and son. Prison Is a Great Place to Get Reading Done 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

When I hear Wires, it reminds me of those traumatic but ultimately miraculous 48 hours – and how precious and fragile newborn life is. Family life 2012-10-05T23:05:03Z

The materials – paint on vellum, a parchment made from calf’s skin -- are too fragile and light-sensitive to be on permanent or frequent display, Potts said. Legal settlement with Armenian church lets Getty Museum keep prized medieval Bible pages 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

But characters like Archie Bunker and George Jefferson were products of a different time but are still relevant today, especially since race relations remain fragile. Review: About Norman Lear, Who Gave Us Archie Bunker 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

The Bessons are citizens, students and workers, enmeshed in networks of solidarity that offer at least a partial, fragile promise of protection. Review: In ‘Custody,’ a Father Terrorizes His Family 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

“The ‘Leatherstocking Tales,’ two of which are set on Otsego Lake, present nature as something fragile to be preserved rather than a threatening force to be overcome. Henry S. F. Cooper Jr., Space Reporter, Dies at 82 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

He reminded viewers that the stars’ re-acclimation to society “is a fragile process, especially with the nature of social media. Keep your vile opinions/hateful messages to yourselves.” These reality TV newcomers thought they were ready for fame. Then social media turned vicious. 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

Like my wife, my daughters took it personally that I would now recklessly risk my fragile health with an illicit drug. Acid redux: My long, strange, cancer-fighting trip back to tripping 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

In another, it is a fragile flower that rises in the park in the summer sun, wilts in the autumn, and then vanishes. The new Sepentine pavilion is a rhapsody in red 2010-07-06T20:31:00Z

The lead single, the soulful "Retrograde," is as much fragile as it is powerful. Review: James Blake shines in electronic glory 2013-04-08T17:32:08Z

You’ll never enjoy your party if you’re on high alert all evening, watching for red wine spills or fragile items breaking. Perspective | 9 ways to take the stress out of holiday entertaining 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

But Shakespeare’s drama, with its free play of ideas exposing the fragile human underpinnings of social institutions, is what prompted its birth. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Panetta also writes that he advocated leaving a small American force to help preserve “the fragile stability” that was “barely holding” Iraq together in 2011. ‘Worthy Fights,’ by Leon E. Panetta 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

I mean, once you started asking questions about Irishness, it's actually much more complex and fragile and ambiguous than anybody thought it was. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

“We really wanted to include Nolan Bushnell’s Computer Space, but it is too rare and too fragile,” said Mr. Bodman, of the Pong designer’s first game. New Show Opens at the Barbican Center in London 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Mixed with dramatic inhalations and scratching noises made with loofahs, they created a sound world painfully innocent and fragile. Review: MATA Festival’s Sounds of Play 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The balance is fragile and the threat of a spiral of decline is not an idle one. Arts and the new coalition government 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z

Helicopters were used in the 1980s to capture and remove the goats because they were damaging the park’s fragile alpine vegetation and soil. Olympic National Park takes on mountain goats 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Her voice sounds ancient and fragile, as though dragged through shattered glass and gravel. Diane Rehm’s next act: Using her famed voice to fight for the good death 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

"The kiku are elegant and fragile. The diversity of chrysanthemum types and training styles that we exhibit is staggering." The art of the Japanese Garden 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The Taliban insurgency is bad enough, but chaos also looms if corruption scotches the “fragile gains” achieved so far, Sopko says. ‘It’s John against the world right now’

Until recently, I had assumed Carnegie’s book was just another fragile antique from the 1930s, like the electric tube radio. ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People’: Why the granddaddy of self-help endures 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Her Giselle was a believably innocent and psychologically fragile peasant girl, but her physical fragility came from her motor running too hot. Dance Review: ‘Giselle’ Stars Natalia Osipova in a Cinema Broadcast 2014-01-29T21:28:25Z

With no sense of it being as fragile as it was, he put it in a bag and handed it to me. The African Sculpture One Playwright Looks at Every Day 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

The fragile posters with their heartwarming contents are few and far between. Michael Landy's art goes down the tube 2011-07-20T12:20:58Z

All those lives, all those thousands of precious, fragile lives, wiped out in the blink of an eye. Immortals all die by the sword 2011-07-06T09:00:00Z

Toothpicks, cuticle pushers, tweezers and metal blemish extractors are the common tools that are being used to separate the shell and fragile membrane. People peeling raw eggs has become a viral trend on TikTok 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

Combine linens with fragile glasses, dishes and decorations to keep them from breaking. Perspective | Use this stuck-at-home holiday to finally get those decorations under control 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

Like a ballerina on a music box, the model spins on a rotating platform, a fragile vision in luminous white. Review: ‘McQueen’ Reveals a Dazzling and Divisive Talent 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Haute couture, what remains of it, is a little like a fragile ecosystem under siege by modern tastes and habits, and by couturiers who are stuck in the past. 2010-01-28T08:06:00Z

We assumed we would be inheritors of this great ideal, and now we realize how completely fragile it is. Why Thornton Wilder Matters in the Trump Era 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The resources required can sink a fragile company, and even an unlimited budget cannot guarantee that every element will work. Virginia Opera mounts a high-flying ‘Dutchman’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

And inside that fragile moment, she sounded eternal, conjuring the ghosts of every teenage pop singer who ever tried to funnel their confusion into a microphone. Review | This is what Billie Eilish sounds like in real life 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

Where De Havilland brought something rational and controlled to her performances, Fontaine was the fragile, emotional star of movies such as Rebecca and Letter from an Unknown Woman. Olivia de Havilland: Hollywood’s queen of radiant calm 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

That may change, of course, though it’s doubtful that most will secure a theatrical release given the fragile condition of foreign-language distribution in the United States. Father Doesn’t Know Best at New Directors/New Films 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

As Colette contemplates the "soft architecture" of the silhouetted tents, "the immensities heaped upon these fragile structures filled her eyes with tears." Summer readings: August by Gerard Woodward 2011-08-01T08:00:00Z

Ashton's 1948 classic is a fragile balance of magic and pantomime, of romantic drama and classical style. Cinderella ? review 2010-12-15T22:20:00Z

This is fragile work, but there is something exuberantly puppyish about it, too. The Vanishing Horizons 2010-08-18T09:26:00Z

Two writers who have lived the expat life in Venice view your slippery presence in this fragile city as tantamount to a crime. Books: Portraits on the Page of Paris, London and Venice 2014-04-17T17:20:24Z

My hands have cradled many heads,Cut countless cords and cauls,But never held eternityWithin such fragile walls. Carols for Christmas 2010-12-18T00:07:31Z

If he thought about such questions at all, he perceived “capitalism” and “socialism” as interchangeable masks for systems of domination that are simultaneously sinister and fragile. Depravity, class war and the 1 percent: Tom Hiddleston shines in brilliant dystopian fable “High-Rise” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

The world is dangerous and while Bausch takes her company on a paradise vacation, we're never allowed to forget that paradise is a fragile construct. Pina Bausch's Tanztheater?Wuppertal: Agua 2010-08-29T20:31:00Z

Sometimes the guy seems so fragile, he’s just asking how you’re feeling constantly and you can tell he’s not going to stop until you finish. Why do women fake orgasms – and is it anti-feminist? We asked five women 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

We feel that, while art is so powerful it can change lives, it is also so fragile and precious that it badly needs our protection. What Kind of Town Bans Books? 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

The two fragile handwritten sheets, brimming with original musings and even a new character, were discovered two months ago in France in private hands. 'Little Prince' discovery offers new insight 2012-05-03T12:27:09Z

The gallery spent years persuading museums in Italy, France, the United States, Russia and Poland to lend fragile works for the show, which gathers nine of Leonardo's 15 surviving paintings and dozens of drawings. Leonardo da Vinci the star of major London show 2011-11-08T12:16:11Z

Here the author leaves them, as fragile, tantalising and inaccessible as they were in the desert. Paper trail 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

She also adds a further complication to Salam’s hectic existence: He must somehow write episodes that satisfy her narcissism, Assi’s fragile ego and the ideological agenda of Uncle Bassam’s unseen backers. ‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ Review: Mideast Conflict as Soap Opera and Farce 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

But its dialogue between a soulful, searching voice and angular, nervous utterances was also too fragile to withstand such interruptions. Review: At Bargemusic, a Surprise Competition With Live Bluegrass 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Her fragile nerves shot, Pérez’s Blanche often attempted to maintain a composed, pallid front, but her voice betrayed her, surging with feelings she had yet to master. Review: Poulenc’s Nuns, United by Faith, Return to the Met 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

Morgan is sarcastic and fragile, acutely self-aware but still riddled with self-doubt. New Y.A. Crossover From Morgan Parker, Renée Ahdieh and More 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

The opening chorus of Fair Shares For All instantly establishes the fragile optimism of austerity Britain. Betty Blue Eyes ? review 2011-04-13T22:00:00Z

"That really soothes my fragile ego," Colbert replied. Stephen Colbert Goes After Donald Trump in Emmys Monologue 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

I urge you to turn your attention — and your patience and your love — away from your body and toward the fragile soul that body houses. Even My Mom Is Fat Shaming Me. Not Surprisingly, That Makes Me Feel Lousy. 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

In the midst of this digital dystopia, relatively fragile tracks such as “Living With You” and “Mary” feel even more poignant. Album review: John Cale, 'Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood' 2012-10-02T17:48:00Z

Fashion has always been a blood sport, especially in Paris, and the most gifted and fragile talents could be monsters at heart. News Analysis: Why Was the Designer Raf Simons Dismissed? 2012-03-04T01:03:30Z

I can be vulnerable and more feminine and almost fragile. Finding Peace in a Swirl of Color 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

“Behind the facade of success and strength lies a fragile and, at times, broken individual,” the lawyers wrote in the filing made last month. Mary Boone, Art Dealer, Cites Early Trauma in Bid to Avoid Prison 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

And unlike my fragile, bipolar first boyfriend, he radiated physical and mental health. Modern Love: On the Precipice, Wings Spread 2010-08-27T16:59:00Z

“Homes skillfully circles and tugs at the question of what it means to live in flawed, fragile, hungry human bodies,” Ramona Ausubel writes in her review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Rather than providing the world with a model for how to govern, China’s response to the virus shows an increasingly nervous, fragile country, he said. From Ai Weiwei, a Portrait of Wuhan’s Draconian Covid Lockdown 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Yet Kichijiro recurs throughout the film as a mildly comedic foil as well as a relentlessly tragic plague, a fragile and cowardly man whose weakness itself is a test of the priests’ own faith. Martin Scorsese Tests His Limits in “Silence” 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

The analysis, by the UNAids and Lancet Commission, highlights a “fragile window of opportunity” for maintaining progress on curbing deaths and infections and suggests that progress made during the past decade could easily be reversed. HIV epidemic will rebound dramatically without more funding, warn experts 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

She doesn’t know that her idyll is as fragile as a soap bubble, and that this glistening, quivering fantasy she has created needs just one touch to vanish. ‘Passing’ Review: Black Skin, White Masks 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

December 6th and 10th: Meredith Monk’s “On Behalf of Nature,” at BAM, used song, dance, and instrumental composition to evoke the fragile immensity of the natural landscape. Ten Notable Performances and Recordings of 2014 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

They now hazard that the stress of having a child with fragile X must have been "a big factor" in the marriage breakdown. One fan's mission to Lars 2012-06-02T22:01:47Z

Sian Ka’an is committed to protecting its fragile ecosystem—and its esteemed World Heritage Site status. 10 of the most eco-friendly destinations in North America 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

But she’s very fragile, I don’t know if she could take that. Mackenzie Davis on playing a comedic antiheroine in “Izzy Gets the F**k Across Town” 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

This swarm of ideas is overbearingly attached to the fragile construct that is Bizet's opera. The Pearl Fishers, Le Nozze de Figaro 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

Liberia and Sierra Leone's fragile postwar economies will shrink by 3.5% this year, the IMF said, meaning less money is likely to go into vital infrastructure and education projects. Ebola outbreak: US to send 3,000 troops to west Africa to fight epidemic 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

No Rio plans to replace its fragile four-story home with an environmentally friendly new structure where artists will continue to present the same type of boundary-pushing material that has become the center’s hallmark. ABC No Rio Gears Up for a Razing and a Brand-New Home 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

If a fragile rug is so soiled that it needs to be thoroughly cleaned, it’s best to leave it to professionals. How to buy a rug you’ll love — and keep it looking great 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Steadily, she made a career playing such divergent roles as the fragile Laura Wingfield in “The Glass Menagerie” on Broadway and a conservative Christian comedian on Aaron Sorkin’s series “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.” Sarah Paulson Opens Up About Acting, Marcia Clark and Dating Older Women 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

What is the perfect thing to say to shatter my fragile sanity? What Is Glitter? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

In the Gulf war drama Jarhead, he was a fragile marine; in End of Watch, a sturdy cop. Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘I’m fascinated by my own anger’ 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

In the last three months a global pandemic has already killed tens of thousands, disrupted fragile supply chains and laid bare which governments will quickly mobilize to save lives and which governments won’t. ‘Notes From an Apocalypse’ Is a Timely Tour of Preparing for the Worst 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

As if they are too fragile, as if his outlandish ideas might be too imposing. Tim Burton's 'Big Eyes' feels too paint-by-numbers 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

COLBERT: Wow, that really sooths my fragile ego. Stephen Colbert’s Full Monologue, Transcribed 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Others, like Kate, heard echoes of the excuses they had made or the faults they had admitted to survive the most fragile moments of their lives. Perspective | The slippery language around domestic violence 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

The economy was not quite as fragile four years ago, when the gallery got word that it would receive £4.8 million from the lottery fund and £7.1 million from the Scottish government. Art: New Beacon of Scotland's Identity 2011-12-17T08:00:10Z

Set 100 years in the future, this quirky science-fiction series takes viewers to a lunar colony where scientists and idealists have spent decades testing out ways to make an increasingly fragile Earth more habitable. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to HBO, Hulu, Apple TV+ and More in July 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Standing in the middle of a city on our tiny planet, aware of my own fragile existence, I breathed a silent hello to the cosmos. Where Will Science Take Us? To the Stars 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Hedge funders are supposed to be yodeling Tarzans, not fragile consumptives in a Verdi opera. Review: ‘Black Edge,’ an Account of a Hedge Fund Magnate and Insider Trading 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

No one is particularly interested when Ross fulminates against and begs for clemency because of Jim’s fragile constitution and family needs. 'Poldark' Episode 3 Recap: Hope v. Heartbreak 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

As teams of construction workers shore up mounds of earth pressing down on the excavated areas to prevent them crushing the ruins, archaeologists and conservationists are busy restoring newly discovered art and bolstering fragile walls. Italy's Pompeii offers new glimpses of life before calamity 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

He admits that research shows that the social psychologists’ narcissists are happier than the clinicians’, who conform more to Lasch’s fragile, empty, and depressed modal type. Lay off Kim and Kanye! Why millennials actually aren’t “Generation Me” 2014-04-06T15:00:00Z

They’re just too fragile, or they would like to be that way. 2010-02-08T20:50:00Z

Two thousand miles away, I felt protective of the fragile ecosystem of roads, trails and paths that had made such a thing possible. To Ride Again Another Day in Colorado 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

She was a teenager coming out of foster care and her sense of self and her support system was tentative and fragile. The Lesson Here Is Listen to the Victim 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

The same sense of fragile confidence seems to be true of Kartheiser. Mad man 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z

However, the new, fragile tremor in his voice adds gravitas to a 90-minute journey through a remarkable life. Kris Kristofferson – review 2012-12-05T19:47:56Z

The piano arrangement maintains much of the watercolor delicacy of the original orchestral score, allowing Mr. Gerhaher’s clear, sometimes painfully fragile voice to skirt the border between singing and speaking. Review: ‘Book of Hanging Gardens,’ Sung by Christian Gerhaher 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

I incessantly interrupted my work to research nursing pillows and baby carriers, sleepwalked from meal to meal, succumbed to feverish dreams about tiny aliens and fragile dolls. A distressed-baby-shaming CEO: What you can never expect when you’re expecting 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Because my daughter’s syndrome doesn’t come with an absolute life end — because while some die at birth, others live on to middle age — I can forget how fragile she is. Waiting to love my child 2013-05-07T23:45:00Z

The ruling accused veteran detectives of using leading questions and using psychology to manipulate the fragile Rivera, as well as possibly feeding Rivera information. Lake County prosecutors won't challenge overturned conviction in '92 slaying 2012-01-06T17:29:00Z

Jeanne, however, already suspects how fragile and provisional her status is. Ignorance by Michèle Roberts - review 2012-05-25T21:55:01Z

Can this famously careful woman be careful enough with his fragile soul to understand the true demands of his welfare? Review: ‘The Children Act,’ by Ian McEwan puts beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses on trial

I thought: That's how I will open my film, the shot of a fragile silhouette in the back of a huge crowd. "I was really shocked": Mélanie Laurent on "Mad Women's Ball" and how "problem" women are controlled 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

After those fragile and harrowing first two years, I turned my attention to more emotional and spiritual concerns. ‘America loves the theory that all men are created equal, but doesn’t love the practice’ 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Huxley and Ms. Peck, more like brother and sister than lovers, were measured and clean; despite their understated sense of poetry, they never gelled as a couple in such a subtle, fragile ballet. At New York City Ballet, Hits, Misses and Daring Dancers 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

Otherwise, the score stays close to the fragile hearts and minds of its characters as they are. Review: ‘Fun Home’ at the Circle in the Square Theater 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

Women’s hosiery is, of course, an emblem of femininity: Its physical qualities — stretchy until it inevitably rips apart — underline the notion of women as both strong and fragile. Pantyhose That Make You Think 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

And understand that flowers, more beautiful than we are, are also more fragile. | Floral and Hardy 2011-02-08T20:46:38Z

Then the highest line enters, then another, another, still another, until all six parts take flight — rich yet somehow fragile, even lonely, and full of fear. From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Her voice, with its ability to switch from fragile to bold in just a single note, is otherworldly. The Otherworldly Charms of Florence + the Machine 2011-11-03T09:00:45Z

Charisma would seem to be a fragile quality, but it reproduces with ease. A Gift From the Musical Gods 2011-08-17T14:36:45Z

Visitors are also parking cars on native vegetation or fragile alpine tundra and leaving human waste right near backcountry trails, Patterson said. National park visits hits record high for 3rd straight year 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

As Baths, Will Wiesenfeld creates unsettling but beautiful electronic music, layering brittle drums with piano, unusual acoustic samples and his own fragile vocals. Your week in Seattle music: Steve Aoki, Nickel Creek 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

The couple, who are dating in real-life, chatted with Salon about making “The Other Half” and playing emotionally fragile people. “He wants to destroy himself and the world”: stars Tom Cullen and Tatiana Maslany talk about “The Other Half” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

A fragile détente exists between white and black, shored up by an unspoken etiquette that allows both groups to coexist in what passes for peace. ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones,’ a Memoir by Charles M. Blow 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

The clash of movie-world scandal with local politics gives the passionate affair a broad backdrop, as does Ray’s fervent depiction of fragile, high-strung artists caught between love and work. Movies 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

On the one hand, they're so fragile and haunting that part of you wants to grab hold of Gootkin and tell him to cheer up. New music: Hunting Hat ? Who I Thought 2010-11-22T15:19:00Z

That battle cry prefaces a desperate, suicidal run across a fragile bridge by aboriginal warriors to confront the Japanese Army in the Taiwanese historical epic “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale.” Movie Review: ?Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,? by Wei Te-Sheng 2012-04-26T23:32:16Z

“That everything our society is based on is so, so fragile.” | Television: The New Season: ‘Revolution’ on NBC 2012-09-09T19:57:24Z

In “Lazarus and the Birds of Paradise” from her four-part “Hard to be Soft: A Belfast Prayer,” she oscillates between aggressive posturing and more fragile, uncertain states. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Might authenticity itself be an equally fragile myth? What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

Deshon’s thrillingly demented feature film debut explores what happens when fragile masculinity meets unquestioned faith and fanaticism. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Throughout her life, Taylor seemed drawn to fragile souls and those inneed. Elizabeth Taylor dies aged 79 2011-03-23T13:28:00Z

What they record is the transformation of part of an area that one environmentalist describes as a fragile and irreplaceable “mosaic of habitats” into a muddy building site. Movie Review: ‘You’ve Been Trumped,’ an Unflattering Documentary 2012-08-02T14:29:16Z

Playing Mary, a recently widowed child psychologist, Ms. Watts looks becomingly fragile and perpetually worried. Review: ‘Shut In’ (Naomi Watts Should Really Get Out More) 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

I’m going to play you a song that I wrote about a relationship that I was in that the number one feeling I felt in the relationship was anxiety because it felt very fragile. See Taylor Swift Turn 'Out of the Woods' into a Piano Ballad 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

But for all their thunder and bombast, the mountains felt heartbreakingly fragile. I hiked the Colorado Trail for nearly 500 miles. I was awed by the mountains the whole way. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Speaking at the film’s Rome premiere, Perrone said that “dealing with an idol, with such a strong icon, is something extremely difficult, even fragile.” Claudia Cardinale: 6 Decades in the Movies 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

“There are the sheer physical demands of the objects themselves, their high values and the fragile materials, to say nothing of the cliffhanger of waiting for works that have been in production for years.” Whitney Restrospective for Jeff Koons’s Monumental Ambitions 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Ireland's Global Economic Forum is a Davos-style meeting that brings together leading members of Ireland's diaspora to brainstorm on how to ramp up the country's fragile recovery after a financial crisis and EU-IMF bailout. Ireland's Gabriel Byrne brainstorms art and economics 2011-10-07T14:12:10Z

“I like it being so fragile,” he said. Jim Jarmusch’s Collages Are Ready for Their Close-Up 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

That decision meant introducing the fragile mental health of Thatcher, who suffered a series of small strokes after leaving office. Thatcher's "Iron Lady" image softened by new movie 2011-12-27T13:06:35Z

Morahan herself – from the beginning wide-eyed as if she is seeing too much – steers an exemplary fine line between fragile and brittle. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic ? review 2011-02-13T00:06:05Z

“I really want it to be almost like a mirage,” she said of the sculpture — intending that it appear diaphanous and fragile. Art That Might Make You Want to Go to La Guardia 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Her music seems to confirm this suspicion – fragile folk, all hushed tones and lovelorn lyrics. New music: Sea of Bees ? Sidepain 2011-03-04T11:56:48Z

But there was one key difference: instead of fragile birch bark, our canoes were made of a nearly indestructible vinyl-coated thermoplastic. Explorer: On Quebec Fur Traders? Trail, With a Paddle 2011-07-01T17:00:00Z

The first album he made after getting sober, “Southeastern” from 2013 — a raw chronicle of his boozy rock-bottom and fragile redemption — was his critical and commercial breakthrough. Jason Isbell, Self-Doubt and the Album That Tested His Marriage 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

But far from seeming fragile when you see him up close, Mr. Djokovic projects strength and sturdiness. Novak Djokovic Is No. 1, Like It or Not 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

Like with St. Vincent, she’s very wintry and fragile but also kind of apocalyptic. How to Summon the Comic (!) Spirit of Martha Graham 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams’ classic drama about a struggling writer, his domineering mother, his fragile sister and her gentleman caller. L.A. theater openings, May 10-7: 'Annie the Musical' and more 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

In late 1956, she was feeling not only burdened but also fragile — so light and insubstantial that she could blow away. How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

She tells us how "We are learning, belatedly, about the interdependence of living things: how vital and yet how fragile these relationships are." Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z

The novel’s plot is largely carried along by the fragile, symbiotic relationship between Saba and Hagos. In This Novel of Exile, Sulaiman Addonia Writes From Experience 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

“The Easter Festival is fragile,” Michael Haefliger, the artistic and executive director of the Lucerne Festival, said in an interview. Critic?s Notebook: A Jewel of a Spring Festival, Not Selling Out, but Still Sparkling 2011-04-20T22:16:56Z

Rather, he was still on air five hours later, a Raging Boul charging through the fragile china Labour cabinet. | Hadley Freeman 2010-05-12T08:00:00Z

As it empathetically pries open the heads and hearts of its two fragile characters, Ziegler’s play powerfully indicts university culture even at elite campuses. Review | ‘Actually’ anatomizes a he-said/she-said case of campus sexual assault 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

It is a very delicate, fragile neon in blue and white.  100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z

Working in pigmented latex, beeswax or polyurethane foam and even glitter, she made daring, often ephemeral or fragile works that have plenty of historical weight but little market presence. Art Review: Artful Commentary, Oozing From the Walls 2011-02-17T21:27:55Z

“We are much more fragile that I thought,” he said. Glenn Beck: I said ‘stupid things’ while at Fox News 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

The very first entry in the yellowing, fragile committal records of the Central Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane describes the final years of a man named Benjamin Stewart. A Virginia mental institution for Black patients, opened after the Civil War, yields a trove of disturbing records 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

These fragile and provisional sculptures, known collectively as the “R.S.V.P.” series, are rare to see in such numbers; that alone makes this show an event. Gehry’s Quiet Interventions Reshape the Philadelphia Museum 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

Naoko's sanitorium, where she battles for her fragile mental health but eventually retreats into its snowy, misty landscape, provides some of the film's most striking scenes. Tran Anh Hung enters Norwegian Wood ? and emerges to tell the tale 2011-03-03T22:00:02Z

First, an extraordinary 1905, delicate yet energetic, pretty and fragile yet with a tensile strength that kept the wine vibrant. A 150-Year-Old Wine and Its Descendants Reveal Their Secrets 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

The painting was fragile, Mr. Gordon said, because of its age and the fact that it was painted on an unusually large single plank of wood. Inside Art: Now Starring in Chicago, a Prime Rauschenberg 2011-06-09T20:38:07Z

It’s about two women: the mistress who has the trump card and the fragile wife who is begging her not to play it. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

This is what we do, we remarkably intelligent yet fragile creatures: We work daily to reconcile our knowledge of miracle and mystery with necessity. I can’t turn off my thoughts 2013-02-01T01:00:00Z

He worked mostly in watercolors, which is a fragile medium, so his work doesn’t hold up to continual exhibition in major museums. Perspective | I grew up in Upstate New York. It took the art of Charles Burchfield to help me rediscover the beauty of its winters. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

The room — a cavernous ballroom containing people with fragile egos and wearing uncomfortable clothes — is notoriously difficult for a comic. Comedy’s next big star Michelle Wolf doesn’t want to make a point — she just wants to make you laugh 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The natural world is wondrous, McIntosh suggests, but also stark, lonely and fragile, even threatening. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Since the pandemic shut down the performing arts as we know them, the subject of the future of dance, always a question given its fragile economy, seems particularly urgent. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Erecting the fragile tent, which measures 20 feet by 15 feet, was equally challenging. Where George Washington Slept (Perhaps Not Well) 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Since it was too fragile to leave exposed, it was buried again. Chichester's new £7m museum displays Roman past 2012-07-06T11:36:00Z

Now we have an image that suggests that raw, naked power — old-guard, old-style, patriarchal military power — has taken possession of something that is already a fragile cultural symbol. Perspective | The dystopian Lincoln Memorial photo raises a grim question: Will they protect us, or will they shoot us? 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

We’ve seen him stride through arid desert towns like this before, though now, as Lucky, his gait is more fragile if no less purposeful. Review: A Cranky Loner Faces Mortality in ‘Lucky’ 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Life is not only fragile but also violently transitory. Still Stoking Terror: The Hopeless World of ‘Children of Men’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

This is more true of pterosaur remains than of those of many other dinosaur-age creatures because their bones were so fragile. Exhibition Review: Natural History Museum Explores the Wonders of Pterosaurs 2014-04-10T14:00:02Z

One was a soft-shell crab covered in a fragile armor of tempura. Whaley’s review: An urban twist on boardwalk seafood 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

"We were closed two days a week, and we were closing galleries on a rotating basis. I realized how fragile institutions can be." Curator Stephanie Barron has grown along with LACMA 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

For a remote, fragile country of less than a million people squeezed between China and India — the world’s two most populous nations — it’s a delicate dance of letting in outsiders without getting steamrollered. A New, Flourishing Literary Scene in the Real Shangri-La 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

I suspect that's one reason so many cheating songs by women focus their ire on the "other woman" and not the man, lest fragile male egos get ruffled. America needs the Dixie Chicks' candor and audacity now more than ever 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

While this may seem encouraging, the ability to do so is fragile: the gutting of many local papers continues apace. Perspective | Most people think local journalism is financially healthy. Here’s the troubling reality. 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

They were pretty pamphlets, so thin and fragile as to be all but invisible on a library shelf. Art Review: When Art Dallied With Poetry on 53rd Street 2011-01-20T22:51:36Z

But she started life as a fragile infant an ounce shy of three pounds, her skin dripping off her bony elbows and knees. Motherlode Blog: Letting a Child Walk Alone 2013-09-09T16:49:16Z

Now, in their eighth decade, they are fragile, the paint on their arches is cracked and flaking, and they are deteriorating, the Smithsonian said. Smithsonian Seeks $300,000 to Save Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

“The world’s in a fragile place you know,” he said. Kites, dancing penguins and magic: 'Mary Poppins Returns' 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Many of the caves are exquisitely preserved, but others are fragile due to neglect over the centuries and the conditions of the surrounding desert and sand dunes. NYC exhibition depicts ancient Buddhist caves 2013-04-29T17:04:14Z

As she helped the dancers, it became instantly clear that the most paramount — and fragile — part of a Balanchine ballet is its musicality. At City Ballet, Learning From Dancers Who Learned From Balanchine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Dr. Graf recommends looser styles for fragile hair — hair that is bleached, fine or very curly. A Great Beach Selfie Doesn’t Make Itself. A Cool Hairstyle Helps. 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Numerous fragile works, including all the sculptures of children, rest on the floor. From Forgotten Discards, a Wealth of Memories 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

The £11.8 million that greeted its appearance is the more remarkable as the support, paper laid down on panel, is far more fragile than canvas. 2010-02-07T05:26:00Z

The mask has been deemed too fragile to travel. King Tut's treasures return to Seattle beginning May 24 2012-05-17T16:49:04Z

Sarraf supports medical exemptions for “medically injured and fragile children” and argues that concerns about low vaccination rates endangering society are overblown. As anti-vaxx dispute rages, attention turns to California's Waldorf schools 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Only later would I remember how utterly fragile she looked. The crime we committed for her 2014-03-10T00:00:00Z

Topcoat may be strong, but masculinity is fragile. Man-icures: How male celebrities are popularizing painted, polished nails 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

Today almost no buffalo-hide tepees are left, and those that remain are too fragile to travel. Art Review: Plains Indian Culture, as Seen Through the Ingenuity of the Tepee 2011-03-14T22:32:12Z

These years were always going to be provocative, spanning marital chaos, fragile mental health and public confessions of infidelity among members of the royal family. ‘The Crown’: The History Behind Season 5 on Netflix 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

They say that I am fragile and can’t face the work ahead. Style Invitational Week 1425: Picture this — a cartoon caption contest 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

From the get-go, there wasn’t a hope in hell of these people communicating, and the pathos that should have accompanied their fragile aspirations and crushed hopes was nil. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Speaking the Same Language 2010-12-01T21:17:00Z

However, when she breaks their fragile straps while dancing at a particularly fun party, a dilemma ensues — without her beloved shoes, is she still Little Chanclas? Picture books offer diversity, a chance for reading aloud and rich discussion 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The Grade II listed building is on the at-risk register: 40% of the site is in a "precarious and fragile" state. Wilton's Music Hall clears first hurdle on road to £1.6m full restoration 2012-06-28T19:33:32Z

As he produced sketchbooks and fragile, but apparently undamaged, papers from the case, Picasso and Pinault – who with the Le Guennecs were the only people present in the room – each drew a silent breath. The Picasso mystery 2010-12-04T00:06:00Z

It is both strong and fragile, like all life. How poppies, strong and fragile, became a symbol of WWI devastation 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

It suggests that we haven’t yet grasped the reality and scale of our current problems, or art’s fragile relationship to real-world politics. Perspective | Can artists right the ills of an unjust world by staging museum protests? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

For letting the planet’s web of life get winnowed down, through biodiversity loss, till it’s a fragile lattice, torn by any breeze. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z

So this great honky-tonk slog, this never-ending odyssey that requires an increasingly fragile body to breathe melody 100 nights a year — this is actually the thing that keeps him alive? Everyday Zen: On the road with Willie Nelson at 81 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z