How To Use brittleness In A Sentence
- However, Sacob said there was still an element of "brittleness" in the business mood, and confidence remained vulnerable to the sharp increase in the net emigration of skill from the country, as well as the possible collapse of public administration. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Lastly, there does seem, to me, to be an increase in "brittleness" and "strangeness" in little ways with many people across society, this maybe stemming from stress in today's society. Archive 2008-09-01
- Jimmy Stewart’s self-consciously down-to-earth writer in The Philadelphia Story thinks he has rich Katherine Hepburn pegged from the beginning, but by the end, he’s not so sure; Hepburn’s high-toned brittleness is something of a façade, her ex-husband Cary Grant shows the sort of cunning that other screwball comedies might have assigned to an average Joe, while her up-by-his-bootstraps fiancé, played by John Howard, proves a rather dull fellow indeed. Archive 2008-09-01
- Add the rice and turn up the heat, stirring to coat the rice and prevent it from sticking, and cook until a nutty smell and slight brittleness tell you it's time to add the liquid (about five minutes).
- The mechanism of brittleness of the alloy has been discussed.
- And even if you could get past it, you might then face the issue of "brittleness": if your database contains only facts you input manually, it breaks any time you ask it a question about something beyond that material. NDTV News - Top Stories
- Because he is young, is just two years distant from a brief career as a state legislator and has negligible national security experience, an Obama presidential candidacy could have a porcelain brittleness. December 2006
- It was as if the whole mountain was surfaced with an ice whose brittleness was of an unusual order. KARA KUSH
- As I have noted elsewhere, the Bolling/Byrne example is a classic case of this kind of brittleness in current dynamics. Waldo Jaquith - On “activist” judges.
- There was a brittleness of expression there she recognised all too well. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT