Losing my brother on Mount Hood has been a painful reminder of my own spiritual fragility.
The latter had even infected the clergy itself, and so had exposed the “human and institutional fragility of the Church”.
The clockwork, cogs and gears, element makes robots even more interesting because of their apparent fragility and uniqueness.
His groundbreaking 1931 book, 'snow Crystals,' recorded for posterity the beauty, fragility and lacy designs of 2, 500 snowflakes.
His previous book about globalisation, in 2001, was about the fragility and reversibility of a process that many at the time believed to be inexorable.
The latest gust of militarism and aggression from Pyongyang also demonstrates the fragility of the current system of power relationships throughout this critical region.
True faith is not a fruit of security, it is the ability to blend mortal fragility with the inner strength of the spirit.
This youthfulness may help to explain the country's fragility, which is being tested anew under the messily embarrassing rule of Silvio Berlusconi.
The “institutional fragility” that some west European politicians worried about may be a genuine problem—but in the euro area, not in eastern Europe.
Governments in many poor countries react with a shudder to this sort of news item-and indeed to any news that seems to expose the fragility of newly urbanised economies.
We are not faced with the ups and downs of fate, but the fragility of our own character. It is more difficult to break our guard than to break through our worries.
What is even more worrisome is that, even today, the ecological functions of wetlands and the fragility of the public and some have not been managers awareness and attention.
Tracking my fingertips over his olive skin, I'm struck by the potency and fragility of blood and breath and bone - these intricate, insubstantial casings that separate us, keep us alive.
