Adjective : a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance. ,She has a fragile beauty. ,a fragile excuse. From Dictionary.com.
The big man walked away fragilely on drunken legs. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
Sage Counselor Lothian bowed fragilely from his chair. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
In the end, they locked order over chaos, fragilely, gently. From Wordnik.com. [The Chaos Balance]
You are my skin when I was new- translucent, then, and fragilely sheer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Its own fuselage streamed gray soot and crackled fragilely as it cooled. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
My attempt at trying, humbling, fragilely and in my own way, to express the grieving I feel inside at the loss of her light. From Wordnik.com. [The Dying Of The Light « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows] Reference
We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at either end. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Gatsby] Reference
An electronic entity — consciousness so fragilely dependent upon the flow of energy and components — throwing herself through links, almost like being shredded and then forced back together. From Wordnik.com. [Flash] Reference
I figure we are getting too comfortable with how fast things can happen in the digital age, and when days turn to weeks and little progress is made in helping, it reminds me how fragilely most of humanity lives. From Wordnik.com. [Build Blog » Emergency Shelter; A Critical Test of Design] Reference
What Israel did to the Palestinians in the OPT over decades, it did to Lebanon in 1978, 1982 and in about a five week blitzkrieg beginning July 12, ending formally but fragilely with a UN-brokered ceasefire on August 14. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Israel in the United States] Reference
“Porcellian” or “Skull and Bones” extended out indefinitely into the world; the women, of more than average beauty, fragilely athletic, somewhat idiotic as hostesses but charming and infinitely decorative as guests. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
Obama, the bi-racial, Hawaiian-born son of a Kenyan father and a white Kansas mother, adorned with a multisyllabic Arabic name, now emerges as the ideal aesthetic leader -- and much hoped-for redeemer -- of this brave new globalised world fragilely teetering on the edge of calamity. From Wordnik.com. [Wajahat Ali: Obama's First 100: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] Reference
Of course, she should have known, given the circumstances of their coming marriage, that he would still continue seeing those other women who hung so fragilely on his arm, but somehow or other she had managed to forget, or perhaps had deliberately not wanted to remember that they would continue to have their place in Joss's life. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers Touch]
Mrs. Vervain was gracefully, fragilely unlike her daughter. From Wordnik.com. [A Foregone Conclusion] Reference
She had not looked so young, so fresh, so fragilely fair for many months. From Wordnik.com. [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference
Their lives are so fragilely arranged that all it takes is one bad situation to tip a person into a more desperate situation. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
He ended by marrying the daughter of Pferd the brewer, who had been at an American school in Indianapolis, and had come home as fragilely and nasally American as anybody. From Wordnik.com. [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference
In fact, you might suppose that the landscapist wrought with an eye to the loveliness of the ruin it all would soon fall into, and, where he used stone, used it fragilely, so that it would ultimately suggest old frayed and broken lace. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Holidays, and Others] Reference
A simple healthy leisure class it was -- the best of the men not unpleasantly undergraduate -- they seemed to be on a perpetual candidates list for some etherealized "Porcellian" or "Skull and Bones" extended out indefinitely into the world; the women, of more than average beauty, fragilely athletic, somewhat idiotic as hostesses but charming and infinitely decorative as guests. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
She was so delicately, fragilely abloom. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Desert] Reference
18. fragilely. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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