"With everything that they've been through, when something bad happens, they put their heads down," Crutchfield said of his team's fragile confidence.

Muckler said he was concerned about the team's "fragile" confidence after it lost, 3-1, in Phoenix.

A sharp rise in rates would just serve to undermine what very fragile confidence there is and decrease spending further.

But did the shakeup have a negative impact on a few players' sometimes fragile confidence?

By the end of the family dinner, Willa rallies to a new, if fragile, confidence in her marriage.

Her reticence broke the fragile confidence that had been building between them.

Will Kerrigan wilt under pressure, as she has before with her fragile confidence?

She visited him every week, pumping up his fragile confidence.

Yet when T'ai Cho spoke to the boy he saw at once just how fragile that confidence was.

But the fragile confidence of a kicker can dissolve over the slightest change in routine.