I put the hand down again, carefully, as though it were a fragile thing of great value.

Happiness seems to me an increasingly fragile thing, and never more so than at Christmas.

Hope may spring eternal, but it is such a fragile thing.

The heart of a woman is such a fragile thing, so easily broken.

Did he think she'd been turned into some fragile little thing by her ordeal?

Despite their common goal, trust was fragile thing between them.

But in this age of media politics reputations are fragile things.

The economy of the World was a primitive, fragile thing.

Like the President earlier this week, she observed that "the peace which victory brought is a fragile thing."

She was fighting to please Arion, a fragile and total thing.