Sentences with phrase «of brittle»

Made out of brittle plastic, cracked after about 3 months of use (not abuse).

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Make lots of corridors with ice crusher ships — ruff water will demolish the rest of the brittle ice — floats away in warmer water / melts..

This season, drilling «round the clock, the team hopes to reach the bottom of the brittle ice layer, but none of the brittle ice will be shipped this year; instead it will be stored in a deep trench on - site, giving it time to «relax» and become less fragile.

Instead, she reminds us of the precious yet controlled space of the archive, of brittle strips of tape and handwritten marginalia, of epigraphic pages torn from their original sources.

In place of brittle associations with wreckage, one gets fine art.

Then you have to do a whole lot of brittle scripted stuff that makes no sense, often involving tailing someone or brushing up against instant fail states or just figuring out some godawful pattern.

This is useful for breeders as they can prevent the condition from being passed on to a litter by not breeding with a dog that is a known carrier of the brittle bone disease gene.

The crowd was great, only beaten by the heat which was greater, and we had a whale of a time.CWS was represented by the very talented Mr. Chris Jones of These Brittle Bones and Mr. Charlie Lim who spoke about responsible pet ownership and the importance of sterilisation in preventing unwanted litters.

It is sandwiched between a high school group photo in which she smiles tensely at the camera, her hair hacked short around her ears in a style that was popular that year, and a box of brittle letters, the sheets tinged with blue and smelling faintly of sweet betel nut, from her grandmother, who is now dead.

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It's one thing to be told that the «shark fin» is composed of brittle rock that can chip off with the blow of a pickaxe; it's quite another to see a hunk of rock zip past like cheap styrofoam as three men dangle at 20,000 feet, desperate for a solid foothold.

And it should be noted that the core theme of John McClane's yippee - ki - yay jaunts concerns the very Dylan - Thomas notion of not fading away quietly, and shunning, if not outright fearing, the approach of brittle bones and 4:00 dinners.

I'm still a little uncertain of the brittle, faintly campy comic tone present here — Colette's novella (which I'll get into when our Page to Screen series begins)-LSB-...]

He further explains that he is a bounty hunter and there is a price to be had for the death of the Brittle brothers as they are brutal killers.

The most recent lavas... are glassy, reflective, with a rind of brittle glass that hasn't been in place long enough to weather or to accumulate a covering of dusty sediment rained down from the surface.

Crevasses open up as glaciers move, and are the result of brittle failure of the ice as it slips downslope.

Dr. Rivera added that a definite link has not been established between osteopenia in childhood and osteoporosis later in life, which increases the risk of brittle and porous bones, and ultimately, fracture risk.

Scientists at the University of Sussex may have found a solution to the long - standing problem of brittle smart phone screens.

Naturalists had always assumed that the visual system of brittle stars — cousins of the starfish — was rudimentary.

Notable among them is a shot of brittle stars webbed across the sea floor.

This was always predicated on the belief that Brown would lose the election - partly because of his manifest policy failures but also because of his brittle and unstable character.

The version I make is more of a brittle and doesn't contain any flour.

Spoon porridge into crystal glasses about one third full; sprinkle a few pieces of the brittle and pour on a little of the sticky toffee sauce; repeat with more porridge and sauce.

Add a dollop of thick cream and decorate with a larger piece of brittle.

Second, if you want to have uniform pieces of brittle (rather than a charming jumble of broken off pieces), you need to immediately use a brownie cutter or pizza wheel to cut into the warm, soft cookie brittle before it hardens up.

I love any kind of brittle, but this takes the cake!!

It's probably because while neither of my grandmas ever MADE any sort of brittle, the only type of brittle I ever stumbled upon was in Mother Lovett's cabinet under her bar where she hid things like gum drops, peanut butter cups and two - year - old snickers bars along with a whole hoard of salt water taffy that we couldn't touch.

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

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.

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.

The first fan of Dennis Rodman sits atop a brittle autocracy that likely can not survive more open relations with the South over the longer term.

All of these businesses make the mistake of having little concern for needs of consumers, or concern for their most brittle, surface needs.

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

They spread rum nougat into flat pans or break up chunks of cashew brittle by hand.

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

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).

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

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».

A squadron of activists offer support, but Unilever's earnings wobble hints at brittle share prices.

Better macroprudential oversight might have noticed how the sale of those assets was propping up the financial system on brittle pillars, and the selling of these products could have been curbed before disaster struck.

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

Moreover, large chunks of the 482 rules prove that the arm's length standard is not a brittle instruction to use whatever unrelated party information is available.

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 categories.

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.

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.