But with the last fragile wisp of reason left to him, Jiarri regretted that his grandfather had made that promise.

A fragile wisp of a movie (it's only 77 minutes long), "Tadpole," whose title refers to Oscar's boyish nickname, observes his romantic growing pains during an emotionally fraught Thanksgiving break from private school.

The voice was a fragile wisp.

The covers slipped down, revealing a limp wisp of a body wrapped in a pink flannel nightgown, contracted, pathetic-too fragile to be viable.

Here and there in the pale morning light, a few fragile wisps of fog clung like cotton to the canopy of trees.

At its most evocative, this fragile wisp of a movie with its moody, hothouse New York atmosphere suggests a contemporary descendant of "The Catcher in the Rye."

Then she was beneath him on the bed, with only a fragile wisp of material separating them.

Marmeladov calls Sonia meek, a word with Christian overtones, and describes her as a fragile wisp of a person without education or skills.

She was no fragile wisp to be blown away by his hot air.

Smiling, Natasha brushed at the fragile wisps over Freddie's brow.