However, the early goal was a huge blow to what is clearly still a side with brittle confidence and whilst they battled hard they never recovered from falling behind.
One might expect that at the ripe old age of 100 the company would be creaking along with brittle bones, weak knees, a bad heart, and finding it hard to get up in the morning.
If the film, with its brittle, satiric London scenes and its expansive Italian ones, breaks too distinctly into pieces, the magic of the sunnier locations seals the cracks.
Maybe she's a shade too attractive -- it's hard to take your eyes off her hair, so luscious it practically demands its own trailer -- but the contrast with flinty, brittle old Gus is effective, and Adams shows some grit too, easily bossing Justin Timberlake (game as the movie's token love interest).
West Ham were becoming increasingly disjointed and with their confidence looking brittle after two heavy defeats in their last two outings, Villa sensed the victory was theirs for the taking.
But there are rules that can make it easier to cope with the failures of such brittle technologies.
For decades businesses have updated their computer networks by bolting fancy features like interactive Web sites onto old, brittle networks cluttered with arcane code.
With age, such concrete becomes brittle and is easily shaken loose by the vibration of a train racing past at 250kph (155mph).
What rescues the proceedings is the presence of Bening and, above all, of Watts, both of whom seek to offset the mush by presenting us with women who are not just brittle and dismayed but positively unlikable.
Brittle-looking birch trees with black marks on their white bark, and some small, untidy evergreens, rolled up like sleepy bears.
In recent years, the backlog of maintenance, repair, and needed upgrades has only continued to grow, leaving us with aging infrastructure that is more and more brittle.
Ms Fuller's cast is made up of her father, a gruff but gentle tobacco farmer with cigarette ever in hand, her mother, blonde and brittle as an eggshell, and her sister.
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You used the word "brittle" to describe your condition, and it is a very accurate descriptor of how vulnerable people with bipolar disorder can be to changes in their human or natural environments.
With the tailgate open, the breath-taking beauty of snowbound Afghanistan unfolded beneath us, the landscape stark, brittle and largely empty.
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