This clearly was growing more fragile by the day as the Gorbachev Government kept up its pressure.

It offended him when the birds became solicitous and protective, as if he were growing fragile with age, needed guarding.

Not only the senses but the emotions intensify even as they grow fragile.

Most Japanese investment analysts recognize that the world financial markets have grown very fragile, and that their activities are part of the problem.

There were blankets, but even in storage they had grown thin and fragile, just short of useless.

This framework allows us to get fragmentary flashbacks of how the man bucked his own system, while growing more fragile and less upright.

The union of the Cares already grows fragile.

"No, no breakfast," Illyra replied, meeting the other woman's eyes for the first time, and watching them grow fragile with self-doubt.

Brenda Harris's vulnerable tone grew increasingly fragile as she seemed to tire a bit.

Within months the situation had turned sharply towards war, and the Convention grew increasingly fragile.