Sentences with phrase «fragile things»

Fragile things need to be protected, and there's nothing more fragile than today's smartphones.

Not only are babies incapable of listening to your rationale pleas for sleep, but they are tiny, fragile things that require your constant vigilance and protection.

Reminder: you need ways to securely transport these fragile things.

I read two fantasy short - story collections recently — Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman, and The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke — and it turned out they both had a lot in common, so I thought I'd tell you about them together.

My novel These Fragile Things, for example, is an exploration of a near - death experience of a teenage girl, which the father believes is a miracle, the mother believes is scientific and the girl comes to believe she is seeing religious visions.

The books I've read in the last two months (counting the two books I'm still in the middle of): Barr and Wells, Category Theory for Computing Science Sean McMeekin, July 1914: Countdown to War Nail Gaiman, Fragile Things Phil & Kaja Foglio, Girl Genius Book 12: Agatha Heterodyne and the Siege of Mechanicsburg Charles Stross, The Rhesus Chart Phil & Kaja Foglio, Girl Genius Book 11: Agatha Heterodyne and the Hammerless Bell Phil & Kaja Foglio, Girl Genius Book 10: Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle Ben Hatke, Legends of Zita the Spacegirl C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew Terry Griffin, The Art of LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT - G Programming C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair Peter Hart, The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Most mushrooms are fragile things, seldom lasting in the wild more than a few days before decaying.

Human beings are fragile things, and for the period of time it takes to get them to Mars and back you have dangerous radiation from the sun and the galaxy.

FRAGILE things can be useful.

It's rather amusing to see some of the nurseries that people put on Pinterest or elsewhere, you know, with the pad on a slick wooden surface and lots of fragile things within reach.

More often than not I feel like I'm stumbling in the dark and crashing into some rather fragile things.

One problem, though, is that Fulmer is a pitcher, and those are mercurial, fragile things.

Gods are fragile things they can be killed by a whiff of science and a dose of common sense.

Confidence is a fragile thing, and a big loss can cause you to lose it for days, weeks, or even months.

However the damage has already been done and the stability of the crypto market over the next few months wll be a fragile thing.

The fetus in the mother's womb is a fragile thing.

I do not pretend to be utterly clear about this, but I take it that self - identity is as fragile a thing as self - integration, and as dependent as the latter is on resources that lie outside the individual qua individual.

Confidence is a fragile thing.

But GreenSingles members know «that the environment is a fragile thing and live their lives accordingly.»

Your brain is a fragile thing and nootropics and smart drugs are great ways to improve the quality of your life.

My mom always had a horror of white like it was some kind of extremely fragile thing, impossible to keep clean, so you should NEVER EVEN TRY.

And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

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

«Power is a fragile thing.

The film is a fragile thing, easy to overlook if it isn't approached with an open mind and heart, but it's very much worth doing so.

Adorable as that dog is, it can't bare the symbolic weight thrust upon it: a fragile thing with fearsome potential.

Upon arrival at a beautiful, isolated house, Ethan and Sophie are both open to reconciliation, yet it's obviously a fragile thing that could smash into a thousand pieces at almost any moment.

Studio culture is a fragile thing and even the loss of a few key people can change the entire dynamic of the workplace.»

But modern masculinity can be a fragile thing.

Over the years, I realized that artistic ideas are a very fragile thing, they appear and if you are not fully prepare they just vanish.

Suddenly helicopter parents have yet another precious, fragile thing to protect in addition to their child — and that's hardly what the world needs these days.

But the trust in experts is a fragile thing, and advocacy is an easy way to lose that trust.

The prince of poison, when it comes to jellyfish, is not the monster pictured above but the tiny fragile thing you see below.

Law is a fragile thing, both inside and outside the state.

I'm not sure how fragile this thing is for a task like this.

Ian says: Coupledom can be a fragile thing.

Not exact matches

«One thing we do know is that over the course of the years we have had some macroprudential changes to how this system works and we are comfortable those changes have done a lot to make sure the most fragile or the most vulnerable of those in that borrowing space are in effect being protected or have been prevented from excessive borrowing,» he said.

«What's scary about this,» says Evan Fraser, Canada Research Chair in Global Human Security at the University of Guelph, «is that these underlying structural things are going to be what make these food systems more fragile.»

According to Max Read, «Research indicates that when memory is first recorded in the brain — in the hippocampus, to be specific — it's still «fragile» and easily forgotten, especially if the brain is asked to memorize more things.

The most sense you can possibly make of the stupid sh!t is: Big invisible and undetectable sky wizard chanted magic spells for six days to make the entire universe «perfect,» yet fragile enough that one twist of one woman's wrist threw the entire thing into nuclear meltdown (sin / corruption)---- oh yeah, and throw a talking snake in there, somewhere.

The Christians would have us believe that god made a «perfect» universe but yet it was so fragile and easily messed up that one 14 - inch reach of a woman's arm toppled over the whole thing.

This is the fruit of a viper - filled tree of second - best, the - husband - always - knows - better, the male ego is a fragile, to - be-protected-at-all-costs thing, even if that cost is the very soul of the woman who protects it.

One of the few things liberal and conservative educators agree on these days is that college students are too fragile.

Thus it acknowledges with the apophatic tradition that we really do not know the inner being of divine reality; the hints and clues we have of the way things are, whether we call them religious experiences, revelation, or whatever, are too fragile, too little (and often too negative) for heavy metaphysical claims.

The nice thing about online forums like this one is that they let us know that we are not alone and they give us the chance to work through some of our new ideas without jeopardizing those «real life» relationships that are too fragile to handle brutal honesty.

Me to... but... in the grand scheme of things, invading two Islamic countries in a mater of 18 months, completely destroying their way of life and system of government (s), and imposing, or attempting to impose democracy on them, and in the process, being directly and indirectly responsible for the complete breakdown of their fragile societies and the deaths of hundreds of thousands...

Conservatives, despite their substantive disagreements about the ultimate nature of things, have resisted liberal and radical calls for «transparency» in social life precisely because they understand that society can not withstand a too systematic or energetic analysis of its sometimes fragile foundations.

Yet the most salient one, surely, if only because for us it is the first, is the intuition of the sheer existing of fragile, unnecessary things.

There are some things that can not be sugar - coated just because it might offend the emotionally / spiritually fragile.

In his last book The Fragile Species, biologist Lewis Thomas wrote that if the human species is to survive, human beings must learn to do three things and to do them well: to connect; to communicate; and to cooperate.