How To Use Brittleness In A Sentence
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He liked the way the amplifier and the turntable and the speakers were all separate, and the archaic brittleness of the grey cables that connected them all.
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We've recently conducted several pilot studies in the Marcellus and other North American shales that have demonstrated how we can help our clients determine reservoir rock properties, such as brittleness and natural fracture networks, and help predict the geometry of hydraulically induced fractures, both of which are critical to well planning, stimulation and completion.
ION Announces Multi-Client Seismic Survey in Marcellus Shale - Yahoo! Finance
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There was a brittleness to his tone.
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Though he was now touched by the first papery brittleness of old age, his shoulders were still broad, his biceps showed bulges, his posture was mostly erect, and he seemed relaxed.
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Mirror shots abound as the characters' narcissism is exposed and the brittleness of appearances scrutinised.
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But he contends there is a quote, "brittleness" about her that could doom her in the general election.
CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2006
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She had been green and whippy, but now she could feel the brittleness of age creeping in and the breakability that came with it.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Written for wind orchestra and soloist, this is less a partnership of equals than of antagonists, with much brittleness in the music.
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An effect of fluoride is that it causes brittleness, and it is interesting to note that the majority of dentists recommend using fluoride toothpaste but do no support fluoridation of the water supply.
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The key to making metals that snap back to their original shapes, the scientists found, is a balance between brittleness and bendiness, or a balance between teensy and relatively giant grains.
Memory Metals with Could Fix Dents | Impact Lab
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With this, there is nothing to worry about brittleness or breakability.
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The brittleness of both Old Firm defences meant the invoking of bygones in the lead-up to yesterday's derby.
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Accents refined to a chilly brittleness tinkled through the square.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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But to contend with leukemia, Zubrod knew, was to contend with its fieriness and brittleness, its moody, volcanic unpredictability.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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The brittleness of the plant as well as the presence of these groups of vesiculose cells is shared by the genus _Russula_, which is at once separated from _Lactarius_ by the absence of a juice which exudes in drops.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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Ben Stiller is perfect as the tightly-wound Chas - finally a role in which his strange brittleness works for him instead of against.
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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
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According to most of the philological authorities, it denotes "dried clay that emits a sound" (i.e., when it is struck); and since it is used in the Quran exclusively with reference to the creation of man, it seems to contain an allusion to the power of articulate speech which distinguishes man from all other animal species, as well as to the brittleness of his existence (cf. the expression "like pottery" in 55:14).
Mike Ghouse: Sikhs and Muslims Can Come Together For Guru Nanak's Birthday
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An overdose can be harmful to bones and skin, causing weakness and brittleness, even leading to fatigue and vomiting.
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Otherwise, based on the entropy of information principles, to forecast the ability of interference to motivate brittleness.
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He had noted the last time he was on leave that she assiduously avoided any mention of the war and anything connected to it, and there had been a kind of brittleness about her.
Phoenix And Ashes
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This is not to increase their self-esteem as much as it is to continually spackle the holes in their core that lead to a feeling of instability -- and that, if not spackled, will lead to brittleness followed by fragmentation.
Mark Goulston, M.D.: Rage -- Coming Soon From a Narcissist Near You
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To remove tar, freeze it to brittleness with ice cubes and then scrape it off with a plastic spatula.
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There was a brittleness of expression there she recognised all too well.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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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.
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It was as if the whole mountain was surfaced with an ice whose brittleness was of an unusual order.
KARA KUSH
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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
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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
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The mechanism of brittleness of the alloy has been discussed.
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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).
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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
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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
