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That music, in turn, is received by isolated members of a hunkered-down audience, fragilely connected by a shared sound experience.

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2020

He has sketched countless pencil studies of tiny seed pods as fragilely faceted as snowflakes, made exquisite drybrush watercolors* of bees' honeycombs in winter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Playing a club date one evening recently, Jazz Pianist Bill Evans slid unaccompanied into a fragilely twining song of his own composition titled Peace Piece.

From Time Magazine Archive

MAZZO, 18, a willowy, fragilely pretty girl from Chicago.

From Time Magazine Archive

What a flower she looked and how fragilely shaken, like the rain-beaten crocuses in the grass!

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth