Sentences with phrase «in brittle»

It is covered in brittle, cream, antique silk.

November 2nd, 2009 Author: ResumeHelp Important Skills to Have in this Economy In a brittle economy, job losses and underemployment are common.

A majority of elderly people suffer from some extent of osteoporosis, which results in brittle, easily damaged bones.

«The furious hoarfrost bearing down upon us knows neither mercy nor reason, and all within the five boroughs will perish, cowering in their brittle dwellings,» said de Blasio, adding that none would find succor from the gale save those favored by providence to pass quietly in their sleep.

With Georg Herold in brittle sculpture akin to Alberto Giacometti, Martin Kippenberger looking back to the very first round of German Expressionism, or Jörg Immendorff in an overexcited tumble of bodies, art asserted its place between agony and irony.

The book is creatively cluttered with twists and U-turns that leaves the reader wanting more, while the characters are portrayed with utmost confidence in the brittle subject of Syrian Refugee's, with every word carefully chosen.

No insects flutter in the brittle grass next to the lot.

That afternoon, as if in a dream, I stood in the brittle cold, outside the yellow police tape surrounding the entrance of my dead mentor's West Village apartment.

by Walter Chaw I love Stoker, Korean master Park Chan - wook's updating of Shadow of a Doubt that centres on «young Charlie's» sexual awakening and all the perverse tensions attending that moment in a brittle upper - middle - class Nashville.

That Meier's film has been given the initially rather vague title is surprising, but will soon make sense for viewers who take in this brittle family drama from Switzerland.

The film is demanding, intellectually voracious, and reminiscent of Last Year at Marienbad in its brittle aestheticism.

Our bowels become dry, leading to constipation, and this effect can be seen in our brittle, weak fingernails, dry skin, and hair, and weak joints.

Just as the the nacre's «weak» protein - rich boundaries dissipated energy and kept the chalky structure from shattering, these curving cracks in the glass would divert and channel cracks in the brittle glass so it could not fracture any further.

A Member of the Roseobacter Clade, Octadecabacter sp., is the Dominant Symbiont in the Brittle Star Amphipholis squamata.

That could produce enough pressure to push slush up through weak points in the brittle surface ice, driving the movement of the plates.

Previous studies have shown the drug to be effective at spurring new bone growth in mice and in humans with osteoporosis, and a U-M research team believes that it may spur new growth in brittle bone disease patients as well.

«I envision a treatment that uses a precise combination of sclerostin antibodies to grow new bone, followed by bisphosphonates to lock in that bone growth,» said Michelle Caird, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery who specializes in brittle bone disease.

Pumpkin Seeds: I used toasted, salted pumpkin seeds in my brittle, so I decreased the amount of salt to 1/4 teaspoon.

DuPont ™ Biomax ® Strong 120 overcomes limitations that have hold back widespread use of bio-based PLA, delivering remarkable toughening effects in brittle PLA materials, reducing crinkly film noise and cutting power consumption while increasing thermal stability during extrusion.

I like the vanilla in your brittle..

Combined, they resulted in a brittle foundation for asset prices, vulnerable to the next piece of negative news or price action.

Not exact matches

Muhga Eltigani's waist - length tresses were thin and brittle, but, while in Africa during her junior year at the University of Pennsylvania, she discovered homemade hair treatments using avocado and mango.

If Robby's fearless dance moves aren't adorable enough on their own, then consider that this little man has a brittle bone condition, called osteogenesis imperfecta, which has resulted in his having over 70 broken bones already.

A host of engineers and urban planners have long warned this trait is sorely lacking in America's brittle infrastructure.

In other sections brand - new machines roar along, like the flashy robots that make peanut brittle — one stretches out the sheets of brittle, the other flips them — and are nicknamed Tweety and Sylvester.

There's another famous vendor who sells ice cream in a rice wrapper with shaved peanut brittle and cilantro, but I preferred this Japanese - inspired treat.

Here we apply a new model of elastic - brittle failure to test the alternative view that successive episodes promote a long - term accumulation of stress in the crust.

The combined corrected uplift at Campi Flegrei (with intervals of stasis removed) also follows the classic elastic - brittle sequence for deformation in extension (Fig. 5).

In some ways, this lines up with something I noted in my «Brittle Grip» series of posts: growing calls from the extremely rich to not only be able to use their money without limit to shape the political process but to do so anonymously to avoid being «intimidated» or «vilified»In some ways, this lines up with something I noted in my «Brittle Grip» series of posts: growing calls from the extremely rich to not only be able to use their money without limit to shape the political process but to do so anonymously to avoid being «intimidated» or «vilified»in my «Brittle Grip» series of posts: growing calls from the extremely rich to not only be able to use their money without limit to shape the political process but to do so anonymously to avoid being «intimidated» or «vilified».

Global demand for the brittle, bluish - white metal has skyrocketed in recent months, exceeding 100,000 metric tons for the first time last year, according to mining consultant CRU Group.

Back in 1941, G.E. developed a machine that would heat carbon under pressure to create diamonds that could be used for industrial purposes, but those diamonds tended to be brittle and unsuitable for jewelry.

NEW DELHI (AP)-- Given a rare opportunity to lunch with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Gaurav Dalmia was less interested Thursday in discussing the planned topics at hand, including climate change or even the trade dispute between India and the U.S. Instead, the Indian businessman was focused on Kerry himself — and whether he would be able to smooth over brittle relations between Washington and New Delhi for the sake of economic growth.

In fact, everyone I know who has either come into the Church or returned to it in the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categorieIn fact, everyone I know who has either come into the Church or returned to it in the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categoriein the last 20 years has done so because of all the things that Charles Reid would reject and call «right wing,» things that are in fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categoriein fact unclassifiable by such ossified and brittle ideological categories.

Oh, then comes the day when the sun rises in the sharp brittle light of near winter mornings when there are no clouds in the sky.

How we found our safety and security in doing, and eventually became brittle with the loneliness of trying to become the savior, instead of listening to him.

For the all - important work of molding our most important possession, our own self — which is in fact the only thing that is truly our own — for molding this into something that has depth and breadth and substance, for nurturing it beyond the shallow and brittle and empty, acts of love and courage and self - sacrifice are needed.

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.

Among my first memories in this wondrous world were brittle palm fronds folded reverently behind the four crucifixes in our childhood home.

Unless these understandings can be recovered and shared alongside those of the new cultures among us, we will continue to live in a fragmented and brittle society.

One's worldview may take a few knocks in the process but, if the conversation is entered into in the right frame of mind, a brittle faith can be tempered into an altogether tougher, sharper one in the end.

Had he been more of a leader, and less brittle, he might well have returned to his denomination and been a leader in its movement ahead.

The memories come faded, like last year's pine needles: the few that always seem to find their way in among the Christmas ornaments to sift out brittle and yellow when the box comes down from the back of the linen closet the next December.

Although my form of brittle bone disease (OI, osteogenesis imperfecta) is quite mild, I experienced some fifteen or so fractures in my youth.

Progressive ideologies are now little more than wistful and brittle soporifics which, in denying limits or the tragic sense of life, fail to articulate any possibility of genuine political hope.

Promoting a brittle presentmindedness, the idea of progress weakens «the inclination to make intelligent provision for the future, and nostalgia, its ideological twin, undermines the ability to make intelligent use of the past» Distinguishing carefully between nostalgia and an appropriately critical historic memory, Lasch laments the ways in which — driven by progress, even driven a bit mad by it — we can do no better than issue a «communitarian counterpoint» to attempt to right the balance and to retain, at least here and there, smidgens of civic virtue.

Hopperburn is rare in pepper, but the symptoms are tips and sides of pepper leaves turning yellow to brown and becoming brittle.

To grind the larger chiles, first place them on a cookie sheet in a medium oven until they are brittle and break when bent.

My husband has become very health conscience, and I have been EXTREMELY discouraged, I was born and raised in Alabama, (And yes a lot of the stereotypes are correct, we love our butter, fried things and desert) Both my parents are close to being diabetic and my younger brother is a very brittle diabetic, I have a 2 year old that its been so hard for me to tell her no, you can't have cake, you can't have muffins, you can't you can't you can't.

So while brittle wasn't something we made during our marathon holiday baking sessions — those were reserved for fudge, chocolate chip cookies, thumbprints and peanut butter blossoms — I definitely remember the occasional package that I saw sitting in the cabinet.

If the rounds become too cool and brittle, place back in the hot oven for a minute so the frico becomes pliable again, remove and quickly move to the tins.