Molly Antopol

I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle pages. I love reading biographies and researching, to make myself informed about whatever political or historical time I'm writing about. From there, a lot of the emotional truths about my characters emerge.

American Writer

Peter Zumthor

I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

Swiss Architect

Anne Enright

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

Irish Author

Tom Stoppard

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.

English Dramatist

Paul Bremer

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

American Statesman

Peter Stormare

How brittle life is, yet it's been going on for thousands and thousands of years. Maybe we should sit down and pay tribute to life instead of just destruction.

Swedish Actor

Dwight D. Eisenhower

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

American President

Vicky Kaushal

I realise that film industry is a brittle and fragile world, but I'm ready to face it all because I'm too much in love with this space.

Indian Actor

Stanley A. McChrystal

We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided.

American Footballer

John Burdett

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.

British Novelist

Used to describe objects that can break due to lack of strength or structural integrity.

Physical Weakness

Implies that an object may become brittle over time due to aging or wear.

Age Deterioration

Suggests extra caution should be used when dealing with brittle items to prevent damage.

Careful Handling

Indicates a person's emotional condition that may easily be damaged or hurt.

Emotional State

Relates to an individual's fragile reaction under stress or pressure.

Stress Response

It can describe a situation or relationship that is unstable or susceptible to problems.

Subtle Nuance

Refers to a specific crunchy texture in food items, especially sweets or candies.

Culinary Texture

In culinary context, 'brittle' describes texture, not taste or flavor.

Not Interchangeable

 An artificial bone needs to experience real stress, or else it will come out weak and brittle, so the bioreactor constantly pumps fluids around the bone, and the pressure tells the osteoblasts to add bone density. Put all of this together, and within three weeks, the now living bone is ready to come out of the bioreactor

How to grow a bone -...

 like to wander off on their own and only rarely rejoin the herd when this testosterone starts pumping through their blood it can however be very stressful for the herd actually you say he's got very nice big tusks I agree with you they're very very thick tusks it seems like the might be a but brittle

Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...

 that can actually recover the missing information. It makes the brain inherently robust. What you have here is a system where you store data locally. And it's brittle, because each of these steps has to be flawless, otherwise you lose that data, whereas in the brain, you have a system

Kwabena Boahen: Making a...

 And our kids, regardless of where they end up at the end of high school, they're breathless. They're brittle. They're a little burned out. They're a little old before their time, wishing the grown-ups in their lives had said, "What you've done is enough,

How to Raise Successful...

 geologists on the team collects a sample if chrysanthus and daria were buried in these catacombs the soil from these walls should match that found in the skulls the expedition winds its way yet deeper some four storeys into the brittle earth

Christian Catacomb...

 increases the value of improving any of the other links. Concretely, if most of the links are brittle and prone to breakage, the fact that your link is not that reliable is not that important. Probably something else will break anyway.

Will automation take...

 deep-sea fishing why didn't they well the option seems to be taken was taken from them though the island had a dense forest it was comprised of palm trees with thin brittle bark and soft fibrous interiors making them really useless for

Terry Hunt and Carl...

 I am a tribute to her if I live a life as connected and courageous as possible. In the midst of such widespread uncertainty, we may, in fact, be insecure. But we can let that insecurity make us brittle

The new American Dream PIPE...

 ice has builders than carved the world we know on a colossal scale what is it that gives something as brittle as ice supremacy or the hardest and most

Glacier Power PIPE National...

 predator here is a giant the sunflower starfish is a metre across with an appetite for brittle stars

Brittle