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or hundreds of chandeliers made of brittle blades of glass.
Degas lived until 1917, when--blind, brittle, and beleaguered--he died at 82.
If Culturebox were making a point, rather than manufacturing a conceit, it would be this: that these two extremes of contrarian opinion--Maslin's brittle cheerfulness and Siegel's apocalyptic dourness--have somehow brought their holders to the same lonely place.
Bein et al also found that patients with more severe lung disease (Murrary Lung injury score more than 2.5) did not respond to rotational therapy, whereas those with less severe disease (less than 2.5) had significant changes in P a O 2 /FIO 2 . This can be explained by the changes in ARDS with time, as the lung evolves from a wet, heavy, atelectatic lung to a brittle fibrotic lung [ 12].
The West prevailed because nuclear weapons imposed a brittle truce, shifting the conflict to the economic rivalry in which the West's greater resources and adaptability could produce both guns and butter, both family cars and aircraft carriers.