You were on top, treating me like a fragile object.
Their first job is to collect fragile objects and preserve them from harm.
Their owners tend to protect these fragile objects from light and dust, studying them alone or in the company of very few people.
Valuable and fragile objects would have to be stored in places of safety.
The museum was planned to preserve these frequently fragile objects.
Whether the point could have been made just as well without borrowing some of the more precious and fragile objects is another matter.
And paradoxically, it is up here that a sense of paintings as fragile objects threatened by time comes through.
And they wonder at the wisdom of moving fragile old objects around the world for it.
I have some valuable, very fragile objects in my luggage.
We'll have to settle for the most important and fragile objects.