Sentences with phrase «as brittle»

As Brittle writes, «Couples that can effectively manage conflict can help make each other's life dreams come true.»

As Brittle explains, «Demand is rigid.

How can we, as Brittle suggests, «choose better?»

Most couples avoid this kind of interaction because it involves discussions of finances and scheduling, which can cause tension, but as Brittle explains, the more frequently you touch base on these matters the easier it will get.

As Brittle also points out, a 2014 study reports that couples who had two hundred or more guests at their wedding were 92 percent less likely to divorce than the reference point.

I personally loved this design and thanks to much tougher Gorilla Glass, it's possible that Apple can recreate this design while making sure it's not as brittle as the iPhone 4.

Your reactions to others are sometimes just as brittle but you seem to single me out for special treatment.

Her glimmering tableau appears as a brittle scene from a fairy tale or a dream vision that might shatter.

Though they may have required for their exacting execution the fragility of a mind as brittle and punctilious as Martin's, the power of her paintings is that of a sublime symphony: their mute melodies as meticulously wrought as they are effortlessly imbibed by the ear of the eye.»

This is also known as brittle bone disease and is more commonly found in the wirehaired Dachshunds.

Glucosamine helps in supporting the joints and the bones, thereby keeping the dog away from the threats of IVDD or osteogenesis imperfect which is also referred to as the brittle bone disease.

Giving and buying often exceed generosity and need as a brittle piece of plastic becomes an avaricious spoiler of hopes and dreams.

Tempers have become as combustible as the brittle leaves crackling under the cruel sun that glowers over Jane Harper's debut thriller, The Dry, narrated by Stephen Shanahan in a strong, evocative Aussie accent.

Thin as a brittle dead stalk, he is, his face pinched, and he's clad in the dour black weeds of a Puritan.

We would have hesitated to recommend the original Kia Forte, as its brittle ride, thrashing engines, and plain - jane cabin made it an also - ran compared with the refined Japanese and American entries in this segment.

Instead of playing this out as a brittle exploration of identity and societal expectations, the filmmakers opt for a romantic - comedy formula, with a four - way friendship standing in for the usual love story.

Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss proved to be perfectly cast as the brittle detective at the heart of the action, trying to solve a puzzle in a hometown full of traumatic memories.

Call it the son of The Shield; when a writer - producer from that intense police drama crafted a show about outlaw bikers, he was smart enough to cast his wife, Katey Sagal, as the brittle matriarch.

«Eleanor Rigby» reminds us that love is a fragile thing, but it forgets patience can be just as brittle.

As a brittle, waspish author, Kidman was horribly uncompromising, alienating everyone around her and some critics too, who just found it all a bit too nasty to watch.

Rescue Me is one of the darker dramas on television, and also one of the darker comedies: Its humor is as brittle and brutal as its intense scenes, and, like everything here else, is memorably credible.

- Other symptoms of hypothyroidism, which often accompanies hypothalamic amenorrhea, such as brittle hair and nails

In the extreme, it can lead to a state that is known as brittle adrenals, where the body exhibit fluctuating symptoms resembling both extremes of cortisol level (too high and too low).

Icy moons exhibit what is know as brittle elastic behavior, which Quillen says most resembles «silly putty.»

It can be as brittle as glass or as malleable as aluminum.

In an ideal case, we want to develop new, tougher materials that aren't as brittle or don't fall apart as catastrophically.»

And despite having sat under ice for thousands of years, it still contained levels of oxygen that some marine animals, such as brittle stars and worms, can actually survive on.

They will use it to study minute defects such as brittle failure, an atomic - scale weakening of metal.

As the flock smacked against the wall, it shattered into uneven clusters as a brittle solid would, rather than splashing into equal - sized drops as a liquid would, the team reported this month in Physical Review E.

This thin sliver of ocean reaching under the ice turned out to be 10 meters deep, and the camera came to rest on the bottom beneath it, revealing it to be muddy and strewn with pebbles — a flat, barren tract, devoid of any obvious signs of large marine life such as brittle stars, sponges or worms.

They were not as brittle as the ones I did with the freezer.

Working with phyllo can be tricky as its brittle and can dry out very quickly, so check the handling tips before start preparing this Galaktoboureko recipe.

As the brittle cools sprinkle coarse kosher salt evenly across.

Not exact matches

One etiquette consultant usually makes peanut brittle as holiday gifts, and clients have come to anticipate her homemade candy.

«If computers were human,» Lenat told us, «they'd present themselves as autistic, schizophrenic, or otherwise brittle.

Viewed as a single sequence, therefore, unrest at Campi Flegrei can be explained by the evolving deformation of an elastic - brittle shallow crust.

I see it as part of the larger story I wrote about here as the «brittle grip.»

The brittle hucksters of diminutively frail verbal cloistering increments within societal armadas are all likened to being as justifiable sandy shoals that are constitutionally vacated, idiosyncratically bred and ironically celebrated vespers of humane fooleries forbearance pleasing ways.

«Prospective employers do not want a future workforce of graduates who seem thin skinned, humourless and brittle, but rather one that is composed of well - rounded people who have learned to challenge, reject or embrace some of the new and difficult ideas they encountered as students.

If you are trying to say that a man can not provide the same emotional support as a woman I simply disagree because I have known many gentle, tender and caring fathers and many brittle, bitter angry mothers where the kids got their emotional support from dad.

Most of the 2012 cycle presidential candidates who marketed themselves as authentic conservatives (which is to say, to the right of Mitt Romney), had very shallow and brittle arguments against Obamacare.

As I held the hefty album, I noticed that the brittle binding clung to life by threads.

Otherwise we are back where we began: with officially exorcised but practically, dominant programs of Western and modern stories of progress; with monological forms of rationality and increasingly brittle notions of a self seemingly coherent but actually possessive and consumerist; with «others» present, if at all, only as projections of our modem selves, our desires, wants, needs.

Contrary to common opinion (at least in the evangelical / charismatic circles I was immersed in) I don't see that as a fatal weakness but a strength, removing the message from the brittle confines of times and places and cultures long gone and into the realm of resilient timelessness.

Insisting that it can not fundamentally change as the world changes likewise weakens it, by making it brittle or irrelevant or both.

All of them were caught by surprise as swiftly moving fire devoured the brittle collections of oddities and the surrounding dry wood structure.

Still, as the land grew colder and darker, the excitement faded, leaving only brittle determination, a boy's will not to be the first to turn back.

I have gas stove as well and the first time it didn't harden and it was more a toffee than a brittle which was fine because I liked the texture.

As for the nut brittle, it can be done with whatever nuts you have on hand.

Unfortunately, as we age, our bodies produce less collagen, leading to wrinkles, saggy skin, digestion issues, brittle hair and nails, dimples (cellulite) and joint pain.