fragile

Domestically, the prime minister maintains the dubious line that he is the only man who can keep the still-fragile peace.

The gym—a fragile collective of human ecology at the best of times—has suddenly become even more tense.

It's about the delicate fabric of the universe and how our fragile insides crumble when that fabric is torn.

He was coming out of a relationship and was in a fragile place himself.

The Houthis have done exactly this and have shaken the already fragile government of Yemen to its foundations.

Bang went the fragile bulb, as it splintered into a thousand atoms, and the mercury shot in sparkling globules over the table.

A fragile arm twined itself about his neck and he kissed her on the lips.

But children came and died too quickly for her health and fragile beauty, and the storms of life beset her.

A cigar should be handled daintily; it is a fragile, graceful creature—don't mar its beauty.

That rare and curious being called I is more fragile than any porcelain jar.