In the late afternoon the pinkish, alabaster light is so fragile it feels as if it could shatter.
The area's ecology previously had been deemed so fragile that humans were banned four months of the year.
Also, although bone mass declines and muscle mass declines, rarely do things get so fragile that they snap.
But the new disease makes the shells so fragile that cleaning is impossible.
Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.
Harvesting wild rice, really an aquatic grass unrelated to rice, is so labor-intensive and the rice so fragile that it's expensive outside Minnesota.
That is no small matter while the recovery remains so fragile.
With the global economy already so fragile, and some countries poised on the brink of deflation, the result will be uncomfortable at best and painful at worst.
She said she was "absolutely not" organizing a revolution in Iran, but she wondered whether the Iranian government was so fragile that it couldn't tolerate an open debate.
The system became so inefficient and was made so fragile by waste that a relatively minor setback a couple years of bad harvests caused widespread hunger and revolt.
Like the Soviet-era writers, Mr Hutton cannot decide whether it is America's success he most dislikes (because it is too powerful) or its impending failure (because the world's leader is so fragile).
In the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, it became transparently obvious that the United States could ill-afford to depend virtually entirely upon so fragile a system as the space shuttle for its access to space.
European governments large and small are imposing austerity measures (pay and pension cuts, cuts in government spending, tax increases, etc.) to tackle record budget deficits, the timing questionable when their economic recoveries are so fragile.
But even if they were to do that, it leaves unresolved the great British debate - about whether the UK's indebtedness is so great, and the confidence of investors in our credit-worthiness so fragile, that the chancellor dare not cut taxes or increase job-creating infrastructure investment.
To meet his targets he might actually have to tighten further, to cut spending even more, in the middle of this oh-so-fragile recovery.
The rhythms, modes and sound textures that make African guitar styles so satisfying are fragile.
The psyche is fragile so when bombarded with negative messages day after day, it believes them.
Government supporters blamed Hizbullah for igniting the conflict with Israel and so exposing the fragile country to ruin.
Again the national security strategy proposes a new departure, again a lesson learnt from recent conflicts ranging from Rwanda and Bosnia to Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia: to create a standby international civilian capability so that for fragile and failing states we can act quickly and comprehensively by combining the humanitarian, peacekeeping, stabilisation and reconstruction support they need.
It is a sign of the weakness of Israeli politics that so many of Israel's same problems persist and so many coalitions remain fragile.
Many forecasters think the economy will still be fragile, so you can expect Republicans to argue that it is no time to raise taxes.
Markets knew the punch bowls would have to eventually be withdrawn, but did not expect it to take place so soon given the fragile economic recoveries, nor with such aggressiveness.
This is a very fragile material so it is important to discuss an integrated approach on how to deal with the conservation because this material continues to be used even today in modern construction.
The country has been invaded, and indeed carved up, so often that the fragile flower of civic responsibility, rooted in respect for state institutions and their servants, has rarely had a chance to grow.
But the underlying message has not changed: the recovery is still fragile, and so is the optimistic mood we have seen in global financial markets since the start of 2012.
For all the reasonably robust performance so far, there is a fragile feeling in the air.
Mountain systems are particularly fragile as well, so many mountain ecosystems are moving along trajectories that couple high rates of environmental change with strong economic changes.
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