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Example sentences for: brittle

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Flockhart, the brittle underweight neurotic, yet still somehow appealing, in a tense yet vulnerable way
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.
Which, if Culturebox was illustrating a point, rather than manufacturing a conceit, was it: that these two extreme of contrarian critical opinion--Maslin's brittle cheerfulness and Siegel's apocalyptic dourness--have somehow brought their holders to the same lonely place.
Here the Ola leaves which people wrote on were too brittle.
Degas lived until 1917, when--blind, brittle, and beleaguered--he died at 82.