Your "first batch" of edibles sounds like it could have been lifted from your book, "Cookie Love": dark chocolate brittle with smoked almonds and crunchy toffee bits; milk chocolate brittle with peanut butter and crunchy peanut brittle; toasted pistachios and candied citrus brittle; caramelized white chocolate brittle with graham cracker, butterscotch and crunchy blond chocolate perles … My cookie recipes are very unique to me.
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Chocolate covered pumpkin seed brittle You've got plenty of time to experiment with this impressive sweet and salty brittle.
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Bacon Brittle: A fun twist on a breakfast favorite with bacon ice cream, bacon brittle, chocolate covered bacon and bacon caramel.
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See's Candy 21 oz Peanut Brittle; $22019 Warren Buffett has a sweet-tooth, and See's Candies peanut brittle is one of his favorite ways to satisfy it.
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Frozen means brittle, and the more brittle a thing becomes, the more likely it is to shatter; perhaps radical, stepwise change is on the horizon, for good or ill.
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" After all, Buffett had a lot of favorites, and he still does: "I like the peanut brittle a lot and there's no way to stop once you start eating peanut brittle.
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A good director could make fine interpretive use of these metaphoric riches (the book has inspired other films) or of the brittle old papers that a brittle old woman has locked away.
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Oh, and we'll be passing on the peanut brittle too.
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Bones thinned by osteoporosis are brittle and more easily fractured.
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Countries whose stability depends on an individual strongman are brittle.
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Peanut Brittle: Okay, fine, maybe Pie's better than this one.
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It's where the detail and sharpness start to appear brittle.
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A brittle star seen in a field of manganese nodules.
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Maybe you got too excited chomping down on peanut brittle.
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A gorgonocephalid basket stars, a relative of the brittle star.
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If they are thin and brittle, hard times are coming.
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By contrast, the M3 is so stiff it seems brittle.
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Chapped lips, dry skin, brittle hair — yup, it's winter alright.
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The longer it sits out, the more brittle it becomes.
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They turn brittle and are swept away by strong winds.
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The rap was that he could be testy and brittle.
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The reports describe everything from brittle bones to faulty joints.
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It also leaves your strands feeling brittle and looking dull.
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The inflexibility that makes them fearsome also makes them brittle.
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Brittle, fractured, pointillistic patterns lead, eventually, to weightless, sustained rapture.
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We start losing bone mass, which makes leg bones brittle.
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An elderly woman with brittle bones from the Dominican Republic.
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"This was alive," he continued, referring to the brittle tree.
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My grandfather's favorite candy ever is peanut or maple brittle.
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Most brittle nails are caused by dryness, Dr. Lawry said.
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In this new world, Trumpism appears brittle, hollow and impotent.
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Crackers meet chocolate to create this super tasty brownie brittle.
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That means many of Opportunity's components could grow brittle and break.
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He also argues that automated test scripts tend to be brittle.
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Their lack of flexibility makes them brittle and prone to damage.
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Monarchies were less ruthless and more dexterous than the brittle republics.
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A chrysogorgiid octocoral with a brittle sea star clinging to it.
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Does that make the tool brittle and deeply unsafe to use?
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On their own, carbon fibres are brittle and can break easily.
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Velvety-smooth, the almond brittle flavor also packed a flavorful punch.
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Much like in 1914, the world today is brittle with tensions.
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One by one, these facets of Heile Welt are becoming brittle.
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We snack on homemade coconut peanut brittle that my coworker made.
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This is because, unlike indium tin oxide, graphene is not brittle.
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If I don't add oil, or overwash, it can become brittle.
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The suspension goes from stiff and brittle to compliant and refined.
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Amazon has created a much less competitive and brittle retail sector.
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Yelp users recommended Kilwins' fudge, handmade waffle cones, and peanut brittle.
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In each, she is self-assured and expert, but also brittle.
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The shell is brittle, and the meat is hot and tender.
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The island's brittle electricity grid provides another lesson in disaster mitigation.
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Chemotherapy had made her bones brittle, and she worried about falling.
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Radiation, chemotherapy and steroids can render bones brittle, Dr. Guise explained.
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LOS ANGELES — The flames raced across brittle hillsides like advancing armies.
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Try the chocolate granola bars, brownie brittle, or rocky road clusters.
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His favorite products are the peanut brittle, vanilla nut caramel, and marshmallow.
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But the Sees-lookalike peanut brittle box might be his next... stunt?
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Flaming blue ice that turns everything animal and vegetable into brittle icicles.
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It's fine to deep condition if your ends are dry and brittle.
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In short, as Mr Juckes puts it, the bond market is "brittle".
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If they are brittle and snap easily, the tree is too dry.
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Osteoporosis, which means "porous bone", occurs when bones become weak and brittle.
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Increasingly the brittle partisanship and resulting political strategies are making America ungovernable.
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Authoritarianism is a house of cards built on brittle systems of patronage.
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Be cautious in trees known to be brittle, like eucalyptus and cottonwoods.
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The region is fragile and every outside player makes it more brittle.
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They don't look like candy bars, and they don't look like brittle.
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"I feel like brittle glass," my grandma—who campaigned for Hillary—said.
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Dameron's most compelling writing presses sharply on these brittle beds of shame.
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Kojima's view of the DJ in "DJ Box" feels icy and brittle.
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She sits as though her spine is a column of brittle ash.
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Our economic system is more logistically brittle and precarious than we realized.
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Ms. Ebersole, blithe and brittle, is equally formidable in a lighter vein.
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Sample chewy cashew brittle from the vendor carts around the square outside.
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A Type I superconductor is like a table with a brittle top.
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If the story were all this contemptuous, it would be brittle stuff.
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Its cream color showed some dark patches and felt "silky" but brittle.
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"Then I top it with a cayenne and salt brittle," she says.
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A black dust darkens the surface: black-sesame brittle, ground to powder.
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China's brittle government could prove unequal to the task of managing a slowdown.
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In "The Mist" the characters struggle to become anything more than brittle ciphers.
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O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, How brown and brittle are thy branches?
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But for profit centers, they're addicted in a way that makes them brittle.
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At least now we know to stay the hell away from brittle stars.
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Mabl users don't have to write extensive (and often brittle) tests by hand.
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Your correspondent tried a sample: it was brittle and had a smoky taste.
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The set includes seasonal favorites like caramel corn, chocolate pretzels, and peanut brittle.
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That proved too brittle against a tandem as fearsome as Dalton and Green.
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When the protest movement finally exploded in January 2011, Mubarak's regime proved brittle.
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A small amount produces an airy, brittle crumb that's hard to duplicate otherwise.
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So while the peace may have endured, it is a very brittle peace.
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We think of bones as white, brittle and inert, not rich and dynamic.
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" At one family gathering, tensions torque conversation into something "polite, brittle, utterly empty.
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Vocal cords grow brittle; high notes start to quaver; low tones hollow out.
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What were defined and seen as clear cut boundaries remain brittle in Cambodia.
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Without the constant tug of gravity, bones become more brittle and muscles atrophy.
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You see, our egos are the brittle shell holding our gooey creativity together.
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Despite ambitious plans in the current health ministry, Madagascar remains economically and politically brittle.
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The regime is not nearly as brittle as Pompeo and Bolton appear to believe.
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These brittle bones break easily and cause health hazards for your dog, as well.
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The first group make the American-led, rules-based order sound precious but brittle.
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Even if you never get your cancer back, you're going to have brittle bones.
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To make things worse, the hard, aragonite skeleton of coral is brittle and sharp.
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In the world of Game of Thrones, a woman's potency is brittle and unpredictable.
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Brennan was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, more commonly referred to as brittle bone disease.
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The whole shrimp can be eaten; the legs in particular are nice and brittle.
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Cold weather the night before the launch caused the O-rings to become brittle.
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Hurricane Maria demolished Puerto Rico's brittle electrical grid in one slash across the island.
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Previous varieties Yelp users loved were turmeric-infused and almond brittle-and-coffee-flavored.
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The trees by the roadside were dying, and their leaves were orange and brittle.
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The sounds emanating from the speakers are both brittle and warm, high and low.
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As the day warms, the brittle surface thins and cracks, exposing wet mush underneath.
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But the paper was slightly acidic, and, over time, it darkened and became brittle.
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That is a brittle-ass spirit, that is too much, this grown-ass woman.
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Unlike most steels which get brittle at low temperature, 301 stainless gets much stronger.
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Bright but not brittle, and in full command — so it seemed — of her life.
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But taking excess capital to achieve that outcome leads to a brittle, inflexible company.
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My twin and I were born with a collagen defect that causes brittle bones.
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The coward with the brittle hairdo turns his back on America's dead and deployed.
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"It's a very brittle alloy," Paul Francis, Zildjian's director of research and development, said.
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To the naked eye, rice koji looks like a jumble of brittle, broken grains.
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She tries to bolster that most brittle of things: self-esteem in teenage girls.
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When bones become more porous and brittle, women have an increased risk of fractures.
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My grandmother says anything with chocolate and says my grandfather would like peanut brittle.
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Mr. Brennan, who uses a wheelchair, has a condition known as brittle-bone disease.
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Aging causes the bones to become brittle, and broken bones don't heal as readily.
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A scene like this could get laughs as nothing but brittle, door-slamming farce.
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Nilla Wafers These are fine: Bite-sized, brittle, just sweet enough but also chalky.
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The green water was so calm and still, like a pane of brittle glass.
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The diagnosis was Type 1, colloquially "juvenile" or, if you're feeling rude, "brittle" diabetes.
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Obsidian is a hard and brittle volcanic glass that produces very sharp edges when fractured.
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They can be pristine and exquisite, but they also sag, leak, grow brittle, and decay.
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In space, the calcium leeches out of your bones and they become osteoporotic and brittle.
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Flexible electronics have been long-sought, but silicon, in particular, is as brittle as glass.
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Flaky, brittle nails usually go hand-in-hand (no pun intended) with generally dry skin.
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That's unusual: Ceramics are usually highly crystalline, which makes them strong, heat resistant... and brittle.
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She's equal parts brittle and vulnerable, beautiful put together and a wreck beneath the surface.
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As we climbed, he guided me away from brittle rock faces and possible snake pits.
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This works, but the texture veers toward sticky and brittle rather than crisp and light.
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This is another problem when it comes to a chief executive with a brittle ego.
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Obviously it is so brittle that a simple piece of insulation can cause catastrophic damage.
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If it does, Washington will find that Xi's rule is more brittle than many assume.
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They're here for Chairman Warren Buffett's plain-speak – and maybe some See's Candies peanut brittle.
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The result would be a major shift in financing, from brittle debt to sturdy equity.
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Without plasticizer, the box became brittle and shrank, and then finally cracked along its sides.
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The marks range from damp and wobbly (resembling inkjet image transfer) to brittle and abrupt.
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I also worry that our societies are more brittle now and less tolerant of disruption.
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In New York City, at any rate, there's a brittle, nervous vibe in the air.
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Aging causes the bones to become brittle, and broken ones do not heal as readily.
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In addition, they are extremely brittle and grow only fractions of a millimeter per year.
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The majority occur in winter, when the cold can make older cast-iron mains brittle.
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I'd liken it to stepping on a fresh, bendy branch versus a dry, brittle one.
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In Offill's second novel, the story of a brittle marriage unspools in short, searing chapters.
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Loyalty based on greed and corruption is brittle, it breaks easily when pressure is applied.
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Nowadays, the "brittle old gentleman" is blind from cataracts and has lost his sense of smell.
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This part is piney and the ground is brittle, now we come to a wildflower valley.
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If you missed it ... Dave said Louis' alleged victims had a "brittle spirit," among other things.
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A lack of hydration also causes hair to feel brittle, which leads to more split ends.
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Ceramics and glasses tend to be brittle, which makes them fracture easily once you apply pressure.
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The actor brings real yearning to the story, his baby face communicating Hank's brittle, sensitive unraveling.
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In Stone's, Mia is brittle and brave, fervent and fantastic, a little goofy and extremely skilled.
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If it wasn't a lack of focus, then he was too brittle to be relied upon.
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But an alliance with the DUP also has implications for the brittle peace in Northern Ireland.
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The crust was thin, airy, and crispy without being brittle; it sturdily held its many toppings.
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Indeed, the computer, by virtue of its brittle nature, seems to require that it come first.
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Dropping in is Zoe (Juno Temple), a brittle pop star whose records Len has long produced.
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There was a layer of film on top, and the pasta itself was mushy yet brittle.
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A hair mask packed with oils, keratin, and biotin to revitalize and repair brittle, frizzy hair
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More generally, machine intelligence today is brittle and lacks the robustness and flexibility of human intelligence.
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That super-lean, just-in-time supply chain has proven to be as brittle as glass.
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Post-punk conventions—brittle bass, prickly leads, foreboding drums—are stretched to almost painfully slow pacing.
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"Treatment for dry and brittle hair really has to be done through ingestion," says Dr. Wesley.
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First, the cannabis product is combined with liquid nitrogen so that it is cold and brittle.
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Significant areas of Morgon are not even granite, but brittle, decomposed schist, a different rock altogether.
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The governments were already so brittle and institutions so weakened that any outcome would be bad.
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The Blizzard mixes caramel coated peanuts, caramel popcorn brittle, and chocolate chunks with vanilla soft serve.
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This is a troubling situation, even for him, because it creates an atmosphere of brittle conspiracy.
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The opening arc was a drama about the brittle last days of Claire and Frank's marriage.
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It's a little salty, crunchy but not brittle, more substantial than you expect, and highly chewable.
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"I'm not your therapist unless you give me money," Mr. Brittle, of "Marriage Therapy Radio," joked.
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In all of these cities, older structures of brittle concrete are vulnerable to a strong earthquake.
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While I use sunblock on my skin, I've noticed that my hair looks brittle and dry.
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With brittle covers and fine photogravures, finding even one undamaged volume is a an unnerving challenge.
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SYDNEY, Australia — In late October, lightning struck brittle earth on Gospers Mountain in New South Wales.
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Smith, the disability rights advocate with brittle bones disease, is holding one in their apartment building.
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Bonds built over mutual dissatisfaction can also prove brittle once one person's problem has been resolved.
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He also has autism, abnormal brain development and brittle bones and is unable to walk independently.
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Now Amtrak officials have determined that the tracks are so brittle that they need urgent repairs.
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When he autopsied the mice, he was astonished to find atrophied muscles, brittle bones and atherosclerosis.
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Her bones are brittle due to the lack of basic vitamins and proteins in her diet.
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By the time she reached her mid-20s, her hair was getting brittle from all the experimentation.
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It's a brittle dynamic that doesn't work without everyone (including Tim Hardaway Jr.) embracing a back seat.
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It's difficult to work with—it can become brittle—but you achieve a quite different surface quality.
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"Confidence that the prime minister will be able to negotiate the right deal remains brittle," he said.
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"I notice my hair becoming dry and brittle if I haven't eaten any," she told the Mail.
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They stand brown, broken, and brittle revealing homes, rivers, and roads once hidden within lush tropical landscapes.
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This is the new subterfuge of the smuggling networks, whose plasticity has far outshone brittle intercontinental deals.
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In his mind, the stock meltdown late last year was an example of the markets' brittle nature.
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She has seemed brittle, defensive and wooden in answering questions, as she was yet again last night.
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A makeup artist and a beauty blogger, she wears foundation like an exoskeleton and oozes brittle narcissism.
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The volcanic glass lacks a crystal structure, so is hard and brittle, and fractures with sharp edges.
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"I can't transfer myself, and I have brittle bones, as well as a fused spine," he wrote.
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You should still watch the movie — it's dark, weird, confusing, and looks like a beautiful, brittle painting.
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Maybe, but they also have breakage, brittle ends, and more dates with their colorist than Bumble prospects.
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If the state manages to get this right, there's hope for the rest of the brittle West.
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But it requires a lot of up-front data and human supervision, and it can be brittle.
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That is already arguably the simplest way to fool and it shows how brittle the networks are.
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Between dry weather, hot showers, and heat-styling, my thick hair has been feeling dry and brittle.
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The safe-haven Japanese yen benefited from the brittle sentiment, putting an additional pressure on Tokyo shares.
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The brittle hands of Brian Bowles knocked out Torres in the next bout after the Mizugaki fight.
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If you're constantly tired or have brittle nails, your bloat could be a sign of Celiac disease.
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Trader Joe's was selling them for $2.99 and we picked up the mainstream Brownie Brittle for $4.99.
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WINNER: Trader Joe's — The Trader Joe's Brownie Crisps were notably crunchier than the regular name-brand brittle.
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The icing is made with beets and topped with a sesame seed, sunflower seed, and cinnamon brittle.
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Because bones can be brittle, especially when cooked, they often break apart as the dog chews them.
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I couldn't deny the fact that my hair was beginning to feel dried-out and brittle. Again.
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What we're learning is that our society might be far more brittle than we had once imagined.
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Short-track needs colder ice, but not too brittle that it gives way on the tight corners.
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And Fierstein gave his Edna a brittle sweetness, especially in the character's scenes with Wilbur (Martin Short).
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The juggling act has been messy but not toxic, complicated and delicate but not chaotic or brittle.
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Dry and brittle hair needs to be cut regularly, and always use a good shampoo and conditioner.
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His Harry is beleaguered, brittle, sometimes unkind, a surprise for any fan expecting a happily ever after.
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He also effectively handled Mr. Cosell, a brilliant but brittle personality who had never called football before.
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As the liquid cools, it hardens into a thin, crisp brittle, giving the bun feathery, candylike edges.
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All six Kushners passed that night together, huddled with their neighbors against the cold and brittle fear.
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A tiny bit of baking soda in the cooking water will help make the shells more brittle.
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First came the drought, which wore on for years, leaving farms and forests dusty, brown and brittle.
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Vitiligo had stripped his brittle hair of its color, made his face seem riddled with fat freckles.
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CARAMANICA The brittle, brawny, perpetual-motion math-rock of Battles returns with a connected pair of songs.
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His bones, brittle from years of cortisone injections to keep his unrested voice intact, are literally crumbling.
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The divide between law enforcement officials and the tribe and protesters now feels more brittle than ever.
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Coconut Cashew Crunch Chocolate Drizzle, a rather simple but alluring brittle from Anastasia Confections, won the prize.
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Any hope they still harbored of being a championship-ready team was as brittle as a toothpick.
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Her voice is thin, but it's not brittle; it cuts through a variety of production styles easily.
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Affleck does a fine job portraying a weary, more brittle Dark Knight than we're used to seeing.
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It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break.
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Sparsh has severe Osteogenesis imperfecta (or brittle bone syndrome), which is characterized by fragile bones that break easily.
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He's like the Wikipedia of See's, and can rattle off facts about all things nougat, brittle, and butterscotch.
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Editorial Given the brittle relations between the Obama administration and Israel, even truth-telling can ignite a firestorm.
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The current set-up, which concentrates power in the hands of one man and one party, is brittle.
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But they are under great stress, bossed around by a military regime that is both brutal and brittle.
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This results in the proliferation of interlocking, crystal-shaped structures that increase the concrete's resistance to brittle fracture.
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Someone brought brownie brittle to the office, so I take a piece and have it with my smoothie.
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The bottom line: Trump fares reasonably well with undecided voters on national security, but that support appears brittle.
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Emily Marchand and Lena Wolek: Brittle Peace continues at NowSpace (5390 Alhambra Ave, Los Angeles) through December 3.
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The almond base matched perfectly with the almond brittle flavor, reminding one taste tester of a wedding cake.
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Accordingly, McClain and Nunnally are expecting to see brittle stars and tiny fish picking away at what's left.
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But cuprates were brittle and their behavior was difficult to predict, Somayazulu explained, and hydrides started catching up.
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Scientists were shocked by this behavior since they previously thought brittle stars were calm scavengers, not ruthless predators.
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Unlike the flexible skin of a grape when it shrinks into a raisin, the moon's brittle crust breaks.
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The brittle mood showed on Wall Street where the Dow ended Thursday with a loss of 21 percent.
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My nails were brittle, my hair was falling out, my period was MIA, and my energy had tanked.
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But there's a comfort in that, a surprisingly warm embrace from brittle drums and delicately intersecting synth lines.
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As the software grew more complex, the code became more brittle—more apt to malfunction or to crash.
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For many years, southern Sudan's political factions worked together in brittle alliances to fight for independence from Sudan.
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They are typically not re-useable, can become brittle and break, and take thousands of years to decompose.
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The brittle mood showed on Wall Street where the Dow ended Thursday with a loss of 2262.11 percent.
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The result looks brittle, but under the teeth it sinks and clings, as chewy inside as Japanese mochi.
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"Autocratic or semi-democratic regimes tend to be more brittle, making them less valuable strategic partners," stated Kurlantzick.
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As soon as I moved to Korea, my hair was so dry and brittle — it felt like straw.
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She's charmed by Tom, who reads her fortune while wearing a turban, but remains brittle with her daughter.
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Working with a Chicago house template, "Pala" conjures a lush atmosphere around its concussive, brittle, and prickly pulse.
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Color starts fading, strands feel dry and brittle, and don't even get us started on salt-water tangles.
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Each dose revives damaged, brittle hair from root-to-tip in 60 seconds, so you'll instantly notice softness.
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Much of "England's green and pleasant land" — and Ireland's and Scotland's and Wales's — is turning brown and brittle.
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The Arab Spring nations aren't the only countries with brittle autocratic governments that could suddenly and catastrophically collapse.
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And Emilia Clarke and Sophie Turner have a brittle chemistry that feels like it could lead somewhere interesting.
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Unnaturally brittle, suburban villain-to-be, Elijah Prince (Samuel L. Jackson), is having an exchange with his mother.
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As mentioned before, his character was born with severely brittle bones, placing him in an extremely fragile state.
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Ms. Griggs' plays a lot of her scenes the same, emphasizing Alix's brittle carapace, not her tender interior.
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That was the case for Sammi Haney, an 8-year-old with osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease.
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Paradise is strewn with construction nails, broken glass, downed power lines and brittle tree limbs waiting to fall.
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Assuming that American democracy endures, a party organized around a single extreme personality seems like a brittle proposition.
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As long as the breading is brittle and the meat tender and well seasoned, you can't go wrong.
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The Mets are so old and brittle that they have few assets with much appeal to other teams.
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The brittle outer layers of the crust on Mars have to fracture to maintain themselves on the surface.
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In his voice is the same brittle timbre that infuses Mr. Valli's singing with a dry cutting edge.
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Pretensions to certainty can be seductive, eking out a temporary tactical advantage, but their victories are often brittle.
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When the solo part started to involve brittle, edgy sounds, I thought perhaps you were using electronic modification.
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Oddly, he settled on Hedren for "The Birds" and "Marnie," an awkward actress at best, brittle and shaky.
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"A little information can have a high impact," he says, slapping the brittle bark of a thick Afrormosia.
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Ms. Hudson's performance, with its brassy and brittle notes, and its counterfeit hauteur, comes perilously close to cartoonish.
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Weather: Brittle cold, with wind chills in the low teens this morning and a sunny high of 103.
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The world offers more lessons about how democracies grow weak and brittle than how they can be revived.
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A great deal of weight has been placed on America's example, but America's progress is still somewhat brittle.
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According to NBC New York, Bischoff has osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease, and uses a wheelchair.
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Trees froze through to their slow secret souls, and their limbs turned brittle and cracked from their own weight.
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It was rich and thoughtful, with touches of Beluga caviar and squid ink brittle against a poached langoustine tail.
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But like the crumbling ruins you explore in The Last Guardian, the game itself often feels brittle and broken.
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Neanderthals even used obsidian to fashion weapons by chipping away at the rock, which is too brittle to forge.
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The fish Bathysaurus mollis and a brittle star seen in a manganese nodule bed in the Clarion Clipperton Zone.
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Reese Witherspoon's performance as the queen of Monterey's mean girl contingent is delicious, as is Kidman's dangerously brittle Celeste.
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The next day, we opened the store and the shoppers came in with big checks to buy our brittle!!!
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Many were covered with brittle stars—opportunistic riders, taking advantage of this transport system to disperse along the coast.
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Damaged/Sensitized: SplurgeThis sulfate-, silicone-, and paraben-free mask can be used weekly to revive damaged or brittle hair.
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That's partly because it can be "brittle": Without the right rules about the world, the AI can get flummoxed.
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Despite the trees' one-of-a-kind acid and brittle flavor, goats were starting to refuse the holiday delicacy.
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Add steamy showers to the mix, and what I endure is a life of brittle and straw-like strands.
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Thick, dark smoke poured out of windows and in the end, a charred and brittle structure remained, almost unrecognizable.
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If we're talking texture, it wasn't so brittle that it would disintegrate before your eyes upon contact with tea.
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If a person lacks them, they may experience side effects like brittle nails and hair loss, Dr. Shapiro said.
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Khalifeh visited a brittle-thin older patient whose sciatica was so inflamed she could not rise from her chair.
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The climaxes, alas, were a brittle jumble, missing the mellow blend you'd find in a hall with greater resonance.
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Scholars say this remarkable new technique may make it possible to read other scrolls too brittle to be unrolled.
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The Brownie Brittle was cut into smaller rectangular shapes while the Trader Joe's Brownie Crisps were cut into squares.
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Abramson presents Baquet, who became executive editor after Abramson's ouster, as the brittle and jealous culprit for her firing.
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With her newly divorced and emotionally brittle mother, Evie lives in an echoing and well-appointed house in Petaluma.
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If this sounds daunting, consider the alternative: longer development cycles, more brittle infrastructure and slower innovation than your competitors.
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A host of engineers and urban planners have long warned this trait is sorely lacking in America's brittle infrastructure.
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Nutritional imbalances associated with a vegan diet can cause the patients' hair to become brittle and to break easily.
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Without a properly applied protectant, the heat will dry out your hair, making it brittle and prone to breakage.
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"The grown women in 'Manhattan' are brittle and all too aware of death," Ms. Dederer wrote in her essay.
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But now it just seems stuck in his tired idiom, a brittle mix of thrusting hips and flexed hands.
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They support as much biodiversity as tropical reefs and are home to brittle stars, octopuses, sharks, crabs and fish.
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Dry ingredients like spices, citrus zest and vanilla seeds work better for preserving the brittle crumble of the cookie.
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Brittle, adrift, this Nancy is grieving her mother, sparring with her father and having casual sex with Ned Nickerson.
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Journalists say the powerful military has stifled criticism, and the government has exhibited a brittle attitude toward critical journalists.
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The guy behind the counter recommends a place called Putnam Pantry as a potential place to find some brittle.
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All that remained of those days, apart from the stories, were these exotic bottles, their labels brittle and foxed.
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Maybe trying to stifle and disown the former makes the latter more brittle and false, more of an act.
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Adding to the family's need was a brittle-bone condition that Mona and Yousef have inherited from their father.
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Hundreds say they are now plagued by health problems, including brittle bones, cancer and birth defects in their children.
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The light-colored grass was brittle to the touch but between its tufts the earth was soft and muddy.
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They're doomed, too; In the years to come, they'll lose their covers and their pristine pages will turn brittle.
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According to engineer Ronald Mayville, the tank was constructed poorly, with thin metal that proved brittle under certain circumstances.
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Plush, comforting sounds are in retreat; instead, instruments are often sparse and brittle, electronically desiccated or sampled through static.
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She never mentions a work visa, and even though she's a speechwriter her own dialogue is brittle at best.
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She never mentions a work visa, and even though she's a speechwriter her own dialogue is brittle at best.
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When a person has onychomadesis, their nails become thin and brittle and begin to shed away, starting at the base.
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He noted glass is a brittle solid, which means tiny flaws like scratches in the surface can multiply under stress.
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Brittle synth leads shimmer like freshly rolled up snowballs; sighing ambience plumes outward like fogged breath on a car window.
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Scientists say the fossilized remains of a brittle star that lived 435 million years ago belong to a new species.
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Much of Fleabag focuses on how she and her brittle older sister, Claire (Sian Clifford), grapple with their mother's death.
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Made with brown sugar pecan brittle, scratch-made marshmallow fluff and roasted sweet potatoes, it's sweet nostalgia by the scoop.
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"Salt pulls water and moisture from the scalp and hair which can cause processed hair to become brittle," Jones says.
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He is wary of giving any ground to Western ideas because Russia's political system, though adept at repression, is brittle.
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Pretending to do so only leads to a bunch of awkward, brittle conventions that conceal as much as they reveal.
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The researchers were also intrigued by a worm-like brittle star, or ophiuroids, that's clinging very tightly to the coral.
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Or why those post-bleach tresses suddenly seem fuller and more voluminous, only to turn brittle and break off later?
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Jane's conversation with her own mother reveals a brittle relationship, of the type she's clearly trying to avoid with Ziggy.
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The crops have turned brown and brittle, the well has run dry, and they've gone four months without substantial food.
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Lea was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (AKA, brittle bones disease), which causes complications in the development of bones and limbs.
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The fate of banks is thus tied to the health of the government's finances, making the whole financial system brittle.
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Dr Nesse draws an analogy with racehorses, bred for speed with the unfortunate result that their cannon bones are brittle.
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All those misconceptions flew out my head as soon as I tried my first spoonful of the Caramel Almond Brittle.
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Foods that are rich in zinc (like lean red meats and seafood) can also prevent dry scalp and brittle hair.
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In comparison to Ibu Oka, the meat at Gung Cung is a tad drier, the skin a bit more brittle.
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Ophiothrix serrata, or brittle star, is one of thousands of marine invertebrates modeled by the Blaschkas using sophisticated glassworking techniques.
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For his part, Brittle says that while he believed the Warrens at the time, he now believes he was duped.
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Excess carbon can make the steel brittle and more prone to fracturing when exposed to shocks or quick temperature changes.
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Yeah, because before we used to make them out of polyester resin and they were sort of brittle and breakable.
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The plastic frames don't feel cheap or brittle, and yet they're also not heavy — even though they're full of electronics.
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Power grids have emerged as particularly brittle in the face of stronger hurricanes, flooding and longer, more destructive fire seasons.
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A brittle economy and independence from Denmark were among the most pressing issues for Greenland's 54,19603 residents in the election.
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This so startled Jiayu that she thought her heart, already brittle, could no longer remain a steady organ inside her.
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And if you can't bend like a reed in the river, then you become quite brittle, and two things happen.
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Symptoms of iron deficiency include fatigue, brittle nails, cold hands and feet, and chest pain, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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The panna cotta was flavorful but overly firm, and a sprinkling of brittle brownie cubes didn't do it any favors.
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A momentary stumble is Samantha Morton's brittle, bitchy Mary: "They call her the Virgin Queen," Mary says of her cousin.
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But first comes a brittle, two-handed, stop-start piano part that doesn't quite establish a key or a beat.
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Scrunch a sheet in one hand: If it's brittle and falls apart, it won't be a dream to work with.
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The meat arrives with a textured, almost brittle outer bark, like the crust on a really great loaf of sourdough.
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That paradoxical combination explains why his power can appear both commanding and brittle, even after four years as national leader.
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Mata Hari is a speaking role, here inhabited by Tina Mitchell, who plays it with coiled tension and brittle haughtiness.
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She has brittle bone disease and uses a wheelchair, which she said makes it difficult to find full-time employment.
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Gone are the thin surfaces and sharp-edged shapes that could make her recent works feel brittle and too cartoony.
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Was the president just born with some kind of mutant follicles that naturally sprout brittle, raw spaghetti-strands of hair?
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But lots of the existing ones rely on a chemical called ITO, which incorporates the very expensive and brittle metal indium.
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Chris Szaro said a double fiberglass backing has ensured the survival of the painting, which he said is brittle in places.
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When women do have osteoporosis, there are still things they can do to prevent bones from becoming more brittle, Pinkerton added.
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Most useful alloys aren't printable because the atoms in the powder grains don't stack correctly—leading to a weak, brittle weld.
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It doesn't even keep my phone safe because it's made of brittle plastic that won't protect the screen from a fall.
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Another worry: While the major economies look relatively strong right now, they may also prove brittle when the next shock arises.
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The brittle-fracture crack in the girder over Fremont Street was 18 inches long, through a 4-inch-thick steel flange.
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"Painting With" is a slimmed-down album: brittle and ratchety instead of sustained; percussive and transparent rather than distorted and enveloping.
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In the absence of gravity, bones become more brittle, fluids in the body move upward and vision sometimes shifts toward farsightedness.
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This week, the sister is Khloé and the hack is one that fights brittle nails without sacrificing gel manicures and acrylics.
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So that makes the creation of bots really tedious, expensive, and brittle, though they work in certain situations like customer care.
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In fact, some formulas will take your strands to such a brittle state, no one will care what you smell like.
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The researchers determined that the dinosaur's bones were so brittle by the time of her death that she could barely walk.
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They were also, however, so brittle that they had to be glued to the spacecraft, rather than drilled and bolted on.
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As Reeder explains on his blog, the glue is harder but more brittle, while the flour portions are easier to sculpt.
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If officials show leniency, they are accused of chasing growth, but if they come down hard, they are considered brittle bureaucrats.
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As her spines and plates reformed around the weapons now embedded in them, the cold night chilled and made them brittle.
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Science is an invisible art practiced on brittle instruments: A string is plucked, and its note rings out a month later.
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What kind of serf would I be without breaking my brittle backbone into a thousand tiny pieces with some menial work?
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He managed to pull this off in part because the consensus within the party was so brittle and out of date.
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As for the filling, you can use pretty much anything that you think would taste good nestled in crunchy, brittle pastry.
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I was huddled under a blanket on the couch, as far away from the brittle, frozen windows as I could get.
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That she was using drugs again became clear when Maillart discovered "the brittle glass of an empty ampoule" in the bathroom.
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Conservators will lay a given map on a table for an exam and diagnose the issue: Is it brittle or burned?
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Their collaboration, "Me Voy" ("I'm Leaving") is a programmed pop construction with a brittle near-reggaeton beat and lyrics in Spanish.
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Rather, it was a less cinematic — but far more important — story about the dangers of brittle dictatorships and weak state institutions.
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Dubbed "Strathdon" by the Curiosity team, the brittle rock looks like a gigantic chunk of baklava, with its tiered, wavy rows.
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The newfound pride — often a brittle veneer over profound self-doubt — was not welcomed by many of those who encountered it.
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Crunchy and brittle, a fricolike halo envelops the fried eggs, giving them a potato chip appeal with a salty, funky depth.
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Photographers said that wires used to rig equipment at the outdoor venues quickly became brittle and snapped at the slightest tug.
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The home-life stories that are meant to add emotional heft are distracting and brittle, and the characters are under-imagined.
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Then, Mr. Myers found an envelope slipped into the almanac, its paper as brittle as the rest of the book's pages.
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To Aurelia were addressed odd letters, written with a rictus of brittle cheer, offered as proof of health, happiness and sanity.
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Likewise, Markita Prescott and Christopher Livingston, as Peanut Brittle and Oliver Oak, apply inventive comic veneers to characters built on loss.
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The village, Xinmo, in Mao County, Sichuan Province, lies in a region of brittle, unstable mountains vulnerable to landslides and tremors.
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While the TV renaissance has radically changed the mix — hello, superheroes, political soaps, brittle sitcoms — the crime drama hasn't gone away.
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Now, with his inner circle of aides apparently dumping on him, he is likely to be even more brittle and alone.
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RevitaLash Advanced Eyelash Conditioner, $78.40 (originally $98) [You save $19.60]If you frequently wear mascara, your lashes can get pretty brittle.
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The city spends $400 million a year to repair water mains that have been underground for decades and are increasingly brittle.
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Khalid, for all his lovelorn protestations, fully trusts the power of his imploring voice, which warms even his most brittle tracks.
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Everywhere there is a brittle grief, and it may be as much for what is coming as for what is gone.
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For dessert, she ordered the milk and honey soft-serve ice cream with honey brittle, oat shortbread and buckwheat honey ($6).
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Oh, and you know how constant blow drying and styling with hot tools can leave your hair feeling dry and brittle?
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And its top crust of chocolate, hard and brittle, thaws like the Arctic tundra the longer it lingers at room temperature.
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It's a little lighter than Austen's other work, and a little more brittle, with a palpable contempt for most of its characters.
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She secured 2900 votes, nine more than the required absolute majority, suggesting that she will take office with her authority already brittle.
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The brittle star that Doyle found most likely lived in the ocean over what's now Ireland, which disappeared after tectonic plate shifts.
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It becomes impossible to separate oneself from whatever she's feeling at any given moment, whether it's brittle panic or all-consuming fury.
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China faces aging demographics, slowing growth, Hong Kong protests, and authoritarian structures that may prove brittle in the face of new challenges.
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They are 12 years old, their masters are crumbly and stained, with brittle ancient tape around the edges and grunge's cruel irrelevance.
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Beef tongue braised in beer had a satisfying sear on the edges and a little extra crunch from flakes of sesame brittle.
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Unlike fine redwood timber, sequoia wood is too fibrous and brittle to be much use for anything except matchsticks and fence-posts.
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It has a stupid name, isn't practical or reasonable, and if you have brittle bone disease it would probably destroy your lap.
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She did so with brittle bones, as the condition has led to dozens of broken bones and surgeries, according to Inside Edition.
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With an ocean that's only growing more and more acidic, we could easily see mussels—with their new brittle bodies—die out.
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The track is electronic pop like only Glass can make it: fast, sort-of-sparse, brittle-feeling, but tough at its core.
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Mr Bolton's bet is that Mr Maduro's regime is more brittle than that of Cuba, which has survived six decades of sanctions.
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The musician was born with brittle bone disease, so she plays her fiddle upright instead of the traditional way, under a chin.
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This area is now home to a wide range of aquatic life, including chrysogorgiid octocorals and brittle sea stars (both pictured above).
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A brittle star clings to a purple coral, one of two species discovered on Cook seamount that may be new to science.
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What made the alliance brittle, however, was a pronounced conservative tendency to collapse these distinctions in order to blame Trump on liberals.
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Dockery brings a brittle determination to Alice, who's trying to make a life for herself and her son on their own ranch.
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He smoothly establishes Ray as an engaging protagonist before revealing his ruthless nature and gives Roz a brittle yet upbeat personal charm.
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But while fear and frustration in the West have shown themselves through democratic elections, brittle Arab states lacked the flexibility to respond.
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His uncharacteristic choice here of a harsh, brittle texture indicates that the violation is again being told from Marnie's point of view.
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He portrays her as brittle, dislikable, unimaginative — a scientist who'd struck gold and was now overzealously controlling access to her star patient.
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The mismatch is intended ironically, but that dissonance is too weak and brittle to sustain the work across the score's 75 minutes.
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For every week in bed, you lose about 1% of your bone density, making your bones more brittle and easy to fracture.
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And Rachel's breakdown feels brutally familiar; Shiri Appleby's performance is a season best, Rachel's shaky honesty as chilling as her brittle armor.
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Experts say that a brittle institutional framework fosters political corruption, and that a politicized judiciary lets those in office off the hook.
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There's stuttering percussion, pin-pricks of brittle synth work, and a general sense of creeping dread that'd make his old bandmates proud.
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The approach requires more hand-built components than many machine learning algorithms, and Tenenbaum cautions that it's brittle and won't scale well.
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Brittle, staccato electronic sounds and filtered voices ricochet around him; a reggaeton beat appears and vanishes amid clatters, ratchets and finger snaps.
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I get a scoop each of White Chocolate Peppermint, Darkest Chocolate and Brown Butter Almond Brittle ($6.68), and they all taste heavenly.
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Rose says she suffered many injuries since she started dancing at three years old, including dislocated limbs, painful joints, and brittle bones.
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The feed is filled with pictures of pickled jalapeños, loaves of marbled rye, cardamom shortbread, pistachio jaggery brittle, bourbon balls and brownies.
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The reversals, brittle temper and incoherence on display at the White House might call into question whether the President has "it" either.
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It's confusing that most of the blame in this unapologetically feminist story is loaded, especially at first, on the brittle, SoulCycling mother.
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In Scotland, shortbread is often made with a combination of rice flour and wheat flour, which gives it a distinctive brittle crispness.
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For a recent special, she scattered some juicy, dark strawberries over a bay-leaf custard with candied walnuts and pine-nut brittle.
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When their skins become dry and brittle and their greens fall off, they mature into the familiar onions we find year round.
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An underlying theme is the development of Coward's famous persona: The eternal bon vivant gliding through the high life dispensing brittle wit.
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Against this backdrop of roiling cultural upheaval, our politics has remained rigidly binary—and indeed has grown far more brittle over time.
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As the planet cools down, Banerdt says, it contracts and the brittle crust of the planet cracks, causing the surface to shudder.
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A reminder of the brittle condition of the city's infrastructure has played out in several water main breaks in the last month.
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But wealth management products have drawn growing concern from regulators, who worry that they could fail and shake China's brittle financial system.
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Then, it was the insurgent sound of black youth in East London — lo-fi, muscular and brittle, full of intricate, chaotic raps.
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Listening to thirty-eight CDs brings you no closer to experiencing such felicity and innocence—the possibility in the tripper's brittle laugh.
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And in general, that's fine, and even good — the small compromises of living with others make us better, less brittle, more human.
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WM: Actually they said ... well, I don't know if this is the same as brittle though … DF: I'm going to say no.
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Trump sells himself as a winner, Roberts contends, which makes his popularity brittle because it is subject to disenchantment if he ever loses.
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In a culture of brittle talking points that we guard with our lives, Change My View is a source of motion and surprise.
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With their delicately cut geometric designs, Pearse's leaves look as though they were constructed from paper, and not from a brittle organic material.
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I couldn't peel my eyes away from that 90-meter spire as it seethed in the heat, going brittle before cleaving in two.
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Unfortunately, these feathered creatures, with their brittle and easily breakable bones, don't fossilize well, and there's a frustrating fossil gap around this time.
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And even though I could feel my body working, I never felt like the moves were too advanced for my brittle, damaged bones.
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Not only do deep-learning techniques require a lot of data and fine-tuning to work, but their intelligence is narrow and brittle.
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Additionally, Kerber pointed out that the silica aerogel is quite brittle, and would need to be doped with another material like a polymer.
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It has a nice soft-touch matte finish on the plastic back, and the Gorilla Glass 3 front feels strong but not brittle.
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In Tillman as in life, rejecting that brittle old self-image is about the best we can hope do—and it's good enough.
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They emerge like time-crusted fossils, throats slit and heads arched back, brittle and flaking, and are beautiful to eat, bones and all.
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The symbolic A.I. systems were powerful, but they were also quite brittle—if some small thing went wrong, they didn't work at all.
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With it are sage leaves that have been fried until brittle, banishing the mustiness of the herb and bringing out its verdant essence.
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The motive behind these disinformation campaigns is for foreign adversaries to demonstrate that the US democracy is brittle and can be easily undermined.
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For example, the bacon brittle we make with Tim's honey also uses local bacon, but we can't use the name of the bacon.
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This is one tactic, to be sure, but it seems like a fairly brittle one when put to any torsion in the courts.
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There is Dutch licorice in traditional shapes like coins, peas, and diamonds, but then also varying textures, from soft and chewy to brittle.
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There is little more to him than parched, papery skin stretched across brittle bones and giant eyes -- brown and unblinking -- gazing up blankly.
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What the show has going for it — aside from Ms. Kabashi's savagely brittle performance and Ms. Cagianese's deadpan bops — is its absurdist edginess.
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She warned at the time that perhaps a quarter of the world's great collections were brittle, with some volumes already turning to dust.
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"I was trying to hide my baby under my scarf, but they saw her leg," Hasina recalled, her voice brittle, her mouth trembling.
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She raised her daughter, who has brittle bone disease, on her own after the death of her husband more than 30 years ago.
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For foreigners, this means getting used to a China that is stronger and more assertive — but possibly more brittle — than in the past.
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I don't think a velvety truffle bonbon would be nearly as alluring if it weren't wrapped in a thin layer of brittle chocolate.
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To me, the harpsichord was a really cool way to represent the Old World, to represent this tight, brittle, repressed kind of feeling.
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"The repo market, in a nutshell, is brittle," said John Lekas, founder of Leader Capital and manager of its low-duration bond fund.
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In my view, we are already entering a perfect storm feedback loop of complex problems that existing systems are too brittle to solve.
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In classic style, the play introduces each as she arrives, spouting a bright, brittle aphorism or offering a capsule preview of her character.
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Most songs here moan about brittle young relationships over the musical equivalent of bringing an amiable golden retriever along for an unhurried jog.
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"Doorman" was a song that sounded like the world Slowthai was portraying—hard and brittle and angry, with samples from TV news reports.
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He has brittle bones, abnormal brain development, autism and is non-verbal and unable to walk around on his own, his mother said.
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This combination of brittle household finances, stagnant discretionary incomes, and wide availability of poorly understood debt products fundamentally explains the runup in bankruptcies.
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Though that world is a brittle fantasy, Captain Marvel becomes a reality for Danvers in 2012, under the wing of writer Kelly Sue DeConnick.
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Often promising better health and smoother results, they're miracle workers for many, but cause serious issues for others, including breakage and dry, brittle strands.
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My commitment to the spark was ultimately as brittle as its cardboard husk, and so I stashed it under my desk to gather dust.
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The actor — who boasts one of TV's best performances with his brittle Philip on The Americans — manages to make Chuck both menacing and pathetic.
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I stick the brittle and dry plant in some water to see if there's any trace of life left, but my hopes are small.
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Officials say unusually hot weather, high winds and highly flammable vegetation turned brittle by drought helped fuel several fires that began over the weekend.
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Additionally, the nano-needles don't have any defects which could make them more brittle; it's more difficult to avoid defects in larger objects' structures.
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First of all, if these are the stones Trump is going to throw, he needs to move out of his very brittle glass house.
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Then there's the militaristic Warlord faction, who want to rebuild the imperial army so that it's not the brittle shell that it has become.
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It seems Serena has gone brittle from wanting any sort of companionship — which is almost understandable, considering Mr. Commander gives her zero attention whatsoever.
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Tseggai doesn't provide enough of an emotional range to match Joy's precipitous descent into unreality; she's either terse and brittle or screaming and unglued.
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I think that when you see Claire first, she's definitely slightly more repressed and a little bit more brittle than we've seen her before.
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In short, the power that Mr Putin tries to project abroad, in the hope that it will enhance his standing at home, is brittle.
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Trees will dry out while indoors over the holidays, and brittle branches can catch fire more easily when paired with hot strands of bulbs.
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We've been reveling in HBO's star-studded Big Little Lies miniseries and its focus on the damaged, brittle lives of Monterey, California's wealthiest women.
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Every one of those totally legitimate issues is a distraction from the larger problem: the game sucks, right down to its brittle, sucky bones.
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The electricity system must be rebuilt for a climate-resilient, clean-energy supporting future, not as a replica of its brittle and underinvested past.
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A healthy political culture isn't brittle, and good institutions have built-in mechanisms for dealing with some level of corruption and abuse of power.
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My iPhone X is riddled with scratches both front and back, something having to do with the glass formulation being harder, but more brittle.
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Dancers lost themselves in this bone-dry and brittle music that seemed to have been made in a vacuum, arriving shrink-wrapped and airless.
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Mobile developers I spoke with were pessimistic and thought the tools would be brittle and inflexible for solving true mobile solutions in native languages.
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All of the patients in the experiment had compression fractures, which can happen when osteoporosis makes bones less dense and more brittle with age.
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"Most authoritarians in history are extremely brittle, they don't take well to criticism so they surround themselves with family and flatterers," said Ben-Ghiat.
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"Although it does have intercontinental missiles it is a very brittle state and it flatlines in all the other aspects of power," he said.
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Some major routes around the capital that had been barricaded by anti-government protesters were unblocked by authorities, but the political mood remained brittle.
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Accepting that an "old" mind goes brittle and slow, develops holes in one's memory, settles into its ruts of ruminative repetition... and so on.
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Celebrity feminism, related as it is to corporate feminism -- the buying of this or that in the name of empowerment -- is a brittle beast.
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The scientists found that elephant skin channels are not just folds or wrinkles, but actual fractures in the animal's brittle outermost layer of skin.
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Election-day exit polls showed an increasing fragmentation of the electorate, with a brittle center, strongly polarized opinions and new voices entering the conversation.
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Their last album elseq 212—22, a brittle and bruised collection of shattered electronic engineering released in 2016, ran for just about four hours.
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"Your curls — whether curly, wavy, straight, or kinky — are constantly exposed to sun, which dries out the hair and leaves it brittle," Leatherwood says.
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According to Growing Produce, a website geared toward American fruit growers, the tree is "finicky," with brittle wood, and needs to be thinned carefully.
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The film is now too brittle to run through a projector, but in 1999, the government paid Mr. Zapruder's heirs $16 million for it.
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During that time, the plastic becomes brittle and breaks into smaller and smaller pieces, called microplastics, which can be eaten by organisms, she added.
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But getting it very cold makes the adhesive brittle and causes the materials to contract a bit, which makes it easier to break up.
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Tracks like "Come Back" are full of brittle longing and "Fuck Dat" is full of deserved bravado—he works convincingly in either mode too.
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Fleabag wouldn't work without Phoebe Waller-Bridge's brittle, brilliant performance at its center — which makes sense, since she's the show's creator, writer, and star.
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The point was underlined by the sensuality of Prince's music: his seductive singing, his spine-tingling harmonies, his brittle funk, and his soaring refrains.
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"We demystify therapy and take it out of a stodgy, dusty, stigmatized thing and make it practical and normal and real," Mr. Brittle said.
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"These are not things you talk about in polite company, so people are interested in listening without having to expose themselves," Mr. Brittle said.
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As the families work to knit together, some prototypically English scenarios arise ("polite, brittle, utterly empty" conversations, for starters), adding humor to the drama.
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Typically, these kinds of tests are very brittle and quickly start to fail whenever a developer makes changes to the design of the application.
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From her nest of equipment, she layered tumultuous beats and brittle electronic loops, and she declaimed ideas about history, racism, memory, technology and transformation.
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"It may not break, but it sure the hell is being bent by this and increasingly becoming brittle," said Hertling, a CNN military analyst.
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This pistachio-cardamom cake, swathed in snowy buttercream and decorated with honeycomb candy and pistachio brittle, is a lovely gluten-free confection for Easter.
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And here it comes again, that brittle frontier spirit, that lone lean guy in our heads, with a gun and a fear of encroachment.
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Scientists saw the migration as the proof of insect evolution — a brittle organism that could fly 6,000 miles a year to avoid severe weather.
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Back in season three, though, Sam stabbed a White Walker with a dagger made of the relatively brittle dragonglass — and the Walker swiftly disintegrated.
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""But they are actually quite vulnerable to small errors, and very brittle, with no mechanism for telling you if they've gone off the rails.
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Ironically, this strength could come by making cement—the chemically-reactive powder that forms a brittle paste when exposed to water—with more molecular defects.
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It's her first time running the show and she's already making a splash with avant-garde dishes like brittle pigs' ears with saline oyster cream.
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As brittle and bruising as O FUCC IM ON THE WRONG PLANET can be, in those moments of chaos there's ecstasy too—some unexplainable uplift.
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Deep learning can be "brittle," getting confused by a situation slightly different than what it's used to, like a stop sign with stickers on it.
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For over a decade now the songwriter and producer has been making brittle and brilliant pop songs, based around heavenward harmonies and kaleidoscopic synth lines.
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Click here to view original GIFAs you already know, ice is brittle stuff, which makes it bad for applications like stabbing fruit or beer cans.
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Aggressively ugly, they have expressions of exaggerated horror that recall Edvard Munch's "The Scream"; their mammalian torsos are sometimes fuzzy with tufts of brittle hair.
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So one common theme has been wanting to develop more autonomy because [robotic] systems in the past have had such brittle telecommunication links to humans.
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Condition your brittle beds in the same way you'd polish a leather purse: with a gentle exfoliating cream that restores your natural texture and shine.
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At the moment most of these systems are extremely brittle — once you go off the templates that have been pre-programmed then they're pretty useless.
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While she screams her demands, the brittle Joanna wears sunglasses that that could have come straight off Elton John's face, atop a swimsuit from space.
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As for the chocolate pretzel tart, with its thin loops of peanut brittle in sea salt caramel, I'd suggest a return to the drawing board.
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The decision is widely expected to be unfavorable for Beijing, with potentially sharp consequences for the increasingly brittle relationship between China and the United States.
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But where in the past Cornet has seemed brittle, here the 27-year-old showed real resilience, breaking back and then keeping the pressure up.
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The first fan of Dennis Rodman sits atop a brittle autocracy that likely cannot survive more open relations with the South over the longer term.
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For decades, sesame bars and brittle were available only in health-food stores, a tip-off that any possible deliciousness would be trumped by nutrition.
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Dr. Jackson's original granula consisted of little more than graham flour, which was baked into brittle sheets, broken into little pieces and then baked again.
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May's simultaneous fixity and willingness to rely on her advisers has led people to wonder whether she is brittle, or wary of her own instincts.
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If years of color-treating and heat-styling has made your hair weak or brittle, try a strengthening mask like Olaplex Hair Perfector No. 3.
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We've already seen thousands of people lose power in Wisconsin this week as hardware like insulators and fuses became brittle and failed in the cold.
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It was set up by Keith and Cheryl Wyse, an American couple, to house orphans who have osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease.
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Anyone who goes for milk or sugar meets the brittle clippings from Lake Oswego's chatty weekly newspaper taped to the wall above the napkin dispenser.
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Fudgy in the center, with a brittle, crackling crust, they were sort of like the corner squares from pan of brownies — both chewy and crisp.
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"A lot of original collections of magazines like this don't exist very much because the paper was so brittle," said Megan Halsband, a reference librarian.
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Yet there Jennifer Guyton and Tyler Coverdale were, standing in a sea of orange sand and brittle yellow grass with their 30-foot carp pole.
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Along the walls are sliding panels built for Iyer to manage the sound, which might be brittle if left to reflect off the bare walls.
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VINYL records are easily broken, but their predecessors, 78s, were made from a brittle shellac resin that would shatter if you weren't careful with them.
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No dice but we do take photos of some chickens and ducks and buy some cinnamon apple muffin bites and some spiced white chocolate brittle.
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Another was Faye Dunaway, whose brittle, tic-filled performance here is chalked up to nerves and lack of preparation; he helped to talk her down.
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Mary Jane (Elizabeth Stanley) is a brittle tiger mom suppressing secret trauma; she and her workaholic husband, Steve (Sean Allan Krill), have grown peevishly distant.
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And the reason is because our telecommunications infrastructure is relatively brittle, it's very costly, and it only covers an enormously small part of the world.
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And when the calendar said spring was here, the kitchen was ready with asparagus tossed with tender, slick fettuccine and brittle crinkles of sautéed pancetta.
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Officials at Amtrak, which owns and operates Penn Station, say the infrastructure at the terminal has become so brittle that it urgently needs an overhaul.
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Angela Bassett convinced you that if you were seeing if not Tina Turner, then Turner's indestructibility; and Marion Cotillard, the brittle incandescence of Edith Piaf.
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She walked over to a bakery-bun rack and photographed the RFID tag lying next to a brittle sheet of an extract known as shatter.
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Ice Cream Wrap The combination of taro, pineapple, and peanut ice creams, peanut brittle powder, and cilantro wrapped in a crepe seems like it was invented for Instagram, but it's been around for decades— taro, pineapple, and peanut make up the trifecta of Taiwan's most traditional dessert flavors.. An vendor uses a wooden grater to scrape powdery flakes off a large block of peanut brittle.
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To lessen the threat posed by the brittle underbrush and those thick clumps of grass, landowners and the state are literally removing it bite by bite.
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Over time, bone gets less dense and more brittle and prone to osteoporosis, a condition that affects about 10 million Americans—80% of whom are female.
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If it's too brittle and can't handle the stresses of continual power cycling, it could crack and open up space for those same dendrites to form. .
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Even if dictatorships tend to be more brittle than democracies, President Xi Jinping has reasserted party control and begun to project Chinese power around the world.
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As swaths of Mexico City continue to sink, the water pipes that weave their way underneath the city's 543 million inhabitants grow older and more brittle.
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The White Walker immediately dies, shattering into countless pieces of ice, as do the wights fighting with him, who in turn break down into black brittle.
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Should those brittle prescriptions ever be broadly adopted, their folly would soon be evident, but not before risking our entire legal system, if not the Republic.
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Others believe that ISIS is now so degraded, starved of resources and leadership and with morale brittle, that it could be evicted from Mosul within weeks.
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Mr Martinez, in particular, was a late bloomer and is a one-dimensional, brittle power hitter, the textbook archetype for a player likely to age poorly.
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And his mother is a brittle socialite who leaves all forms of childcare, up to and including demonstrating affection, to Billy's gentle nanny, Olive (Kelly Macdonald).
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If a thin, brittle, two-inch section of a Kit-Kat makes you think about penises, then I'm starting to understand why you're all so angry.
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They all pored over the available evidence and finally identified the single tiny flaw that triggered the catastrophe, a rubber seal made brittle by the cold.
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There's also the chance that an astronaut's bones can become brittle and break upon re-entry, hence these custom-molded seats that keep them in place.
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Ties between the United States and Pakistan are brittle after Washington announced plans this month to suspend up to roughly $2 billion in U.S. security assistance.
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Brittle, preening guitar riffing forms most of the tracks melodic base, though Aaron, ever the genre synthesist, also leans heavily on glowing 808s and quasi-rapping.
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Trump's relationships with GOP lawmakers are brittle at best and he has the lowest approval ratings of any president at the same point in his administration.
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In fact, doctors recommend that women with brittle bones avoid a natural birth altogether, which could mean births in space would be left to other methods.
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Banks are fragile across the currency zone, but Italy's are particularly brittle, weighed down with bad loans built up over a long period of economic stagnation.
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Amory and L Hunter Lovins warned about the resulting economic and national security vulnerability almost 21859 years ago (Brittle power: energy strategy for national security, 22013).
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But the fact is, this decades-long partnership, born of antipathy to the Soviet Union and an American reliance on Saudi oil, is growing increasingly brittle.
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Even if an agreed force could avoid major ground operations against ISIS and gradually shift to a less muscular peacekeeping role, it would become increasingly brittle.
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Concocted with heaps of style but only a smattering of substance, Benjamin Dickinson's sophomore feature, "Creative Control," is as brittle and unwelcoming as its characters' surroundings.
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PARELES Marie Davidson, from Montreal, builds dance tracks from brittle, synthetic, percussive sounds — taps, beeps, handclaps, blips — that keep appearing, looping and then ping-ponging around.
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Conor rubbed Floyd's "peanut head" and made fun of his "brittle hands" ... while Floyd dropped a homophobic slur and referred to Dana White as Conor's pimp.
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Three of the remaining four healthy starters have an E.R.A. over 5.68 in June, including the enigmatic James Paxton (11.05) and the brittle C.C. Sabathia (6.89).
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It is also about the gingerbread Harriet bakes: spicy, addictive, transporting, either brittle or chewy, often given in friendship, occasionally laced with the threat of death.
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Amory and L Hunter Lovins warned about the resulting economic and national security vulnerability almost 21859 years ago ("Brittle power: energy strategy for national security", 22013).
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The brittle yellow grass of the two-acre lawn surrounding his low-slung white house is dotted with abstract monuments assembled from sheets of stainless steel.
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These letters take the grand archetype of suicidal Plath, the elaborate, brittle mythologies that have sprung up around her, and give them an unforgettable human specificity.
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Just minutes after receiving the drink, Stroup summoned his waiter over and complained that he'd bitten into a pit, exposing his precious and brittle dental work.
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But to Iowa caucus-goer Emmanuel Smith, who has osteogenesis imperfecta — otherwise known as brittle bones disease — the prospect of jostling over caucus votes is terrifying.
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They had a bit of a reputation for breaking, particularly when their plastics got brittle after being left out in the sun for a few days.
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But the system's aging infrastructure is becoming increasingly brittle, trains are breaking down more frequently and even the smallest hiccup can produce a cascade of delays.
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As for all that brittle, passion-concealing wit and straight-faced deception, wasn't that the stuff of old-guard West End masters like Coward and Rattigan?
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Every policy initiative is actually just pastillage, those brittle sugar sculptures that you see atop fancy desserts that crumble and dissolve at first contact with reality.
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We witness the brittle frailties and dogged strengths of Noe and Christy, men at very different stages of their lives who nevertheless have each other's backs.
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France is struggling with a notoriously brittle body politic, a condition aggravated by a wide-ranging resistance to inevitable roll-backs of an unaffordable welfare state.
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Equally imperiled by the re-emergence of the Rajapaksas is the brittle process of reconciliation in a land seeking to recover from a long civil war.
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But it is Mr. DeHaan's brittle soulfulness that has booked him four Prada ad campaigns and kept him on lists of soon-to-break-out stars.
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It bums me out a bit, but I snack on leftover cashew brittle we got in a gift basket from a client, along with a Pukka tea.
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Nassim Taleb, who predicted the Syrian civil war years before it happened, also predicts that Saudi Arabia's brittle regime will sooner or later suffer a similar fate.
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According to researchers, in the absence of gravity, bones can become more brittle, fluids in the body can move upward and vision can shift toward far-sightedness.
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But it's not really him: It's a creature that feeds on her memories, materializing them as brittle bodies he raises from ink-like pools in the garage.
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At an MSF clinic in Maiduguri, more than half of the beds are filled with stick-thin children, some with hair turned brittle and orange by starvation.
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Or perhaps that's too hard, too brittle… maybe inside my head feels like something that's halfway between those two things in terms of sweetness and brittleness. Yes.
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Click here to view original GIFTechnically, the press blasts a hole through the pack of cards and smooshes a circular section into a brittle little hockey puck.
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He also requires a feeding tube (his medications stifle his appetite), oxygen to help his breathing and a wheelchair to avoid falling and breaking his brittle bones.
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Although it was once considered a great street tree, it's now recognized as an invasive, brittle-limbed hazard, and is no longer planted by the Parks Department.
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They join Caramel Almond Brittle, Cherry Garcia, Chocolate Fudge Brownie, Chunky Monkey, Coconut Seven Layer Bar, Coffee Caramel Fudge, and P.B. & Cookies in the certified vegan collection.
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It centers around a group of brittle stars, echinoderms with four-to-five forked and spiny arms that usually measure three feet across, and one lonely squid.
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An innocent squid is minding its business and swimming by when out of nowhere a brittle star wraps its arm around the squid and yanks it down.
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And after the other brittle stars saw what was happening and tried to steal the squid for themselves, all hope was lost for our little squid friend.
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Death Valley is known for being an area of extremes, with its oases filled with tiny fish and its brittle cracked ground surrounded by snow-topped mountains.
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During the meeting, Charlie and I will each consume enough Coke, See's fudge and See's peanut brittle to satisfy the weekly caloric needs of an NFL lineman.
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And they are a problem for policymakers trying to build confidence in economic recovery and hoping to avoid deflationary expectations becoming embedded amid increasingly brittle global markets.
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Sesame candy balls and brittle are popular in India, especially in the winter, where the seed, "til" in Hindi, is considered a warming food in Ayurvedic tradition.
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Hurricane specialises in recovering oil from fractures in hard and brittle rock known as fractured basement reservoirs, which some see as a risky way to obtain crude.
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"If you plan only for the majority, your system becomes quite brittle and reaches end of life quickly, because there's so much you haven't anticipated," she explained.
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Hurricane specializes in recovering oil from fractures in hard and brittle rock known as fractured basement reservoirs, which some see as a risky way to obtain crude.
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In adapting it to the stage, Mr. Hampton opened up the events described into a luxurious indoor battlefield, in which combatants exchange brittle epigrams and coded innuendos.
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The brittle skin rests under a broken egg, tiny woolly tufts of dried shrimp and pork floss, peanuts, fried shallots, bean sprouts, mango purée and avocado dressing.
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But more often that strength felt brittle, as if it concealed a deeper helplessness, white-hot rage that had found no satisfaction in its exercise of power.
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Current virtual assistants, meaning conversational apps and bots like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa, "have this problem with being very brittle," Ozlo CEO Charles Jolley told Recode.
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His golden hair looked stiff and brittle like raw spaghetti, like I could have snapped off a piece as a souvenir had I been a bit closer.
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At first, Scott's affable charm makes Mr. Rooks easy to believe and root for, while Meester's brittle mean girl iciness makes her seem like a clear liar.
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In the years since, they've tended to luxuriate, offering sleepy synth runs and brittle disco that appears to be moving in slow-motion even at dancefloor tempos.
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If expert assessments and political science research on personalism tell us anything, it's that the kind of authoritarian governments that seem on the rise now are brittle.
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In the wrong hands, the grains could easily wind up brittle or in clumps, but here they're notably fluffy, at the ideal midpoint between loose and clingy.
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This was every October in Napa: the heat intense, the grass so dry that its brittle stalks would snap between your fingers and powder in your palm.
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Washing the screen in carmine and ink, he paints a brittle, self-consciously arty veneer that, matched with Flying Lotus's dreamily insistent score, creates disorienting sensory overload.
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His hugely influential early production style found the sonic equivalent, deploying lush, nostalgia-triggering samples of vintage R&B hits and gospel affirmations against brittle new beats.
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The attack has ripped up a brittle cease-fire negotiated last year by Russia, Jordan and the United States, the Trump administration's main peacekeeping achievement in Syria.
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Gajak, a sesame seed-and-peanut brittle, and gajar halwa, the pudding infused with carrot and cardamom that she recalled from her childhood, are Ms. Kumar's favorites.
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The comedy is in quotation marks because — as Gadsby demonstrates as she unravels during her one-hour performance — there's such a brittle line between comedy and despair.
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I'm sorry for coating you in harsh bleach and dyes that made you dry and brittle (and why did I think red highlights were a good idea?).
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A line of dialogue like "Oh, ho, ho, my man, let's not push me tonight," delivered with brittle levity, carries more menace than any outright threat could.
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Rihanna's "Anti," which did have hit singles (including "Work") to drive sales, turned out to be a brittle, even confrontational album about compulsive lust and multilevel betrayal.
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On the side are fritters that look like chickpea brittle, to be crumbled into the soup, and lime, to squeeze for as much sunniness as you wish.
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Argentina had been chosen as the host nation in 1966, during a period of relative calm, despite intermittent military coups and the ousting of brittle civilian governments.
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Specifically, the they'll be looking for things like sea sponges, brittle stars, urchins, sea cucumbers, sea stars, and anything else that may have taken root under the ice.
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The enclosures are flimsy, the moving parts are brittle, and the very mechanism that allows audio playback—a thin strip of magnetic tape—very literally degrades over time.
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His actual voice sounds much more thin and brittle than the original, but he reaches a passionate peak that he never reached before — and he never would again.
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On Earth, this kind of ice is too brittle to support large mountain ranges, but on Pluto, these mountains can grow high thanks to extremely cold surface temperatures.
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The unplanned coupling of systems originally meant to be independent has often been identified as a threat to resiliency ("Brittle power: energy strategy for national security", Lovins, 1982).
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Over the centuries, the newspaper has become brittle and awkwardly creased in ways that make it difficult to read, even tearing when you try to turn the page.
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After two weeks of this, the strands at the nape of my neck fell in a jagged line above my shoulders; the rest lingered, dry, brittle, and devastated.
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Careful study of the photographs revealed an ecosystem rife with suspension feeders like corals, sponges, and anemones, as well as deposit feeders like brittle stars and sea cucumbers.
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The thicker, pale-green conditioner is also gentle and lightweight, but it still manages to hydrate and detangle dry brittle ends, so your hair air-dries super soft.
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The idea is that your algorithms are a much quicker study, that they're more efficient and less data hungry, less brittle and that they can have broader applicability.
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To make it easy, we searched the impeccably curated beauty aisles at Target to round up the seven must-have products that'll combat dry skin and brittle hair.
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The three new flavors, Caramel Almond Brittle, Cherry Garcia, and Coconut Seven Layer Bar, use the same almond milk base as the O.G. certified vegan dairy-free flavors.
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The fingers that type our 5 AM tweets are made of brittle bone and wet sinew; the lips that mimic shocked face emoji reactions are soft stretchy sausages.
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Hydroxyapatite — a form of calcium found in bone and already used in reconstructive surgeries — is extremely brittle, but the researchers mixed it with a polymer to add flexibility.
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A hundred nights curled up on the sofa with my sister; a hundred brittle heiresses protesting their innocence; a hundred perfect endings: Suchet was there for them all.
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On a separate plate is a slice of sourdough toast spread with whipped schmaltz and fragments of brittle skin; the menu doesn't call them gribenes, but I will.
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As we stepped into the dark, brittle winter evening, I looked to him, his hat on snug, his thick shoes tightly laced, socks tucked up under his pants.
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And if you asked for pepperoni, the outer edges of the slices will be somewhat brittle and curl upward, forming tiny little meat bowls filled with meat grease.
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While million-streaming hits reduce themselves to the barest minimum of brittle notes and syllables, plus the maximum of barking self-promotion, Noname offers density and abundance instead.
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And Chinese officials and many experts say that China's influence over North Korea is more limited and brittle than Mr. Trump and other Western leaders seem to believe.
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As the afflicted enact their suppressed fears and fantasies, the ensuing horror blasts through the cardboard rhetoric of the Chinese Dream and the brittle artifice of Chinese society.
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We like to suck on a little metal rod so that the water we have poured into a little hollow gourd comes back flavored with the brittle leaves.
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When Thompson sang "Gas," about soldiers confronting poison gas for the first time, sustained strings switched to brittle pizzicato, conveying the sudden feeling of being unable to breathe.
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Law enforcement routinely derails brittle individuals on the pathway to violence thanks to brave and concerned family members, friends, neighbors, teachers and co-workers who sounded the alarm.
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He tells Vice that he won't return until the charges are dismissed, particularly because he was born with brittle bone disease and fears the prospect of being arrested.
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In the last few years, the party under Mr. Xi has created an image of strength that masks an increasingly brittle — as well as brutal — form of rule.
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He is insecure, paranoid and brittle, jostling between egomania and narcissism, intoxicated with a power beyond his meager comprehension and indulging in it beyond the point of abuse.
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It is a textural delight — soft and creamy, with a crunch varying from sandy to brittle-crisp, and sophisticated flavors that flit from salty to bitter to sweet.
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A plaque of barnacles on top of a toilet— this cluster of brittle puckers, clinging to its old idea, these craters striped pale lavender for some unlikely eye.
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Not a cure-all Bolland suggests doctors and health officials currently recommending the vitamin to older patients as a way to prevent osteoporosis or brittle bones should stop.
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Teeth slide effortlessly through the lofty cap of bread, but they are quickly halted, forced to reckon with the brittle chips punctuated with cilantro and cooling sour cream.
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A CNN team in eastern Mosul last month found the brittle mood among a civilian population that was beginning to return home but wary of the fragile security situation.
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But it shows up in structures made by humans, such as concrete roads and buildings, which are too brittle to adapt to the slow movement of the ground below.
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So if the Tesla is going to blow down these bottles quickly, they could easily reach super frigid temperatures, which would make the COPVs brittle and less structurally stable.
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We have a healthier version of it that's a lot lighter, the sweetness just comes from the carrots alone, with a nice little cashew cream and a pistachio brittle.
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I visited Totem Pole Park on an overcast Christmas Eve, the grass brittle, the Fiddle House gift shop closed, and the parking lot empty except for our sole car.
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Ash trees quickly become brittle after they die, so it is both cheaper and safer to cut them down while still alive if they are too infested for treatment.
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Pear and Blue Cheese, Freckled Woodblock Chocolate, Black Olive Brittle & Goat Cheese, and Baked Alaska,and Arbequina Olive Oil are just a few crowd pleasers, as noted by Delish.
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At once soft in appearance and hard to the touch, the air-dry clay, a Play-Doh-esque material designed for children, embodies the installation's atmosphere of brittle tenderness.
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Deafheaven sounds the way life in the 2010s feels: constantly in flux and brimming with injustice and turmoil, interspersed with moments that continue to show life's ever-brittle beauty.
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Oreja (pig's ear) was deep-fried and brittle, all chewiness banished; I may as well have been eating rings of batter, with half-disintegrated rubber bands at the center.
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Williams could easily have turned brittle and cracked after the quick and resourceful Halep forced a third set, hitting off-balance winners and fighting off break points in bunches.
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Do we really need another take on the brittle, bright-eyed saga of 484th-century England's wittiest, drawliest, most written-about (by themselves and others) litter of female aristocrats?
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See's Candies was also a favorite as shareholders sought out to satisfy their sweet tooth, and buy the same peanut brittle Munger likes to eat during the annual meeting.
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The hard truth is that if something doesn't change to improve the relationship between the two parties, the fragile institutions of American democracy may become too brittle to repair.
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So I have these cavities, and I put chopped brittle inside first, then the almonds, then I take the candy caramel, and put it in individual places, then chocolate.
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Although invisible, buried deep between the other layers, the suit's caretakers knew the neoprene would harden and become brittle with age, eventually making the suit stiff as a board.
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In turning himself into a brand he's turned himself into a human shell, so brittle and gilded that there is no place for people close to him to attach.
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They are often brought by lawyers claiming to police public morals by regulating attire, behavior and even jokes under the guise of protecting a brittle version of Egyptian nationalism.
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Turkish political life tends to be brittle because the glue that holds parties together is not allegiance to the party, the government or the state, or a shared ideology.
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My husband gets chocolate chip M&M cookies, we each get a Diet Coke, and I get some apple cider donuts and some pumpkin brittle (maybe he'll like it?).
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This year's lineup includes Trish Harnetiaux's footwear-focused "Tin Cat Shoes," Will Arbery's plague-set "Plano" and Angela Hanks's "Wilder Gone," about the heroines Mabel, Thalia and Peanut Brittle.
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And still the signs fluttered and scattered, the book of antonyms ripped up by Sanders delegates, who tore at its pages and yanked at its binding, its brittle glue.
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In the nineteen-nineties, when modern furniture came back into fashion, Bauhaus chairs were unearthed in attics and storerooms, their caned seats brittle, their metal frames pitted from neglect.
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Elijah's knowledge of comics grew out of his own history: From birth, he has struggled with a rare disorder than renders his bones especially brittle and easy to break.
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Take this as one example: The 60s Courrèges dress in the center of the exhibition was made with large circles of cellulose acetate, which are becoming brittle and warping.
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In their simplest form, plastics shred into smaller particles as sunlight makes them brittle and the waves break them up, leaving them adrift to be ingested by marine life.
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Here's the thing, some formulas have been packed with sulfates, parabens, and other stripping ingredients that are notorious for making curly hair — which is already naturally dry — even more brittle.
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It's perhaps the chilliest, most aloof song of Swift's career, a brittle piano-plinker that reduces one of the best pop artists of the 21st century to a Descendants villain.
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De los Reyes suffers from an autoimmune disorder known as anklylosing spondylitis, or AS. The disorder causes the spine to become brittle and susceptible to fracture from even minor trauma.
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A brittle material, shellac became outmoded around 1960 as it often creates unusual levels of surface noise and can quite literally break apart in your hands if not handled appropriately.
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The cold organ is already brittle and prone to shattering when it gets warmed up, but this becomes an even bigger risk if one part warms faster than the other.
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But the reason your strands will tend to look different has more to do with the scalp itself, which gets drier over time, resulting in a brittle texture all over.
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These sorts of patterns are known as adversarial examples, and they take advantage of the brittle intelligence of computer vision systems to trick them into seeing what is not there.
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There was something hard and private about them that appealed to me, something I could relate to — in the cockroach's brittle exterior, the python's restless wiggle, the spider's defensive crouch.
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Over time, condom materials (including latex, polyurethane, and lambskin) will degrade and become brittle, says Nerys Benfield, MD, MPH, a gynecologist from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center.
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Unfortunately, the camera stopped working the very first time I took it out, and somehow the Hubsan's brittle propellers still managed to push past the guard and impact my walls.
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In fact, almost every single complaint you have about your curls can be resolved with the right oil: from frizz to lack of shine, brittle hair, and even split ends.
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The Angels have already announced they will move to a six-man rotation to keep Mr Ohtani comfortable, a decision that might benefit the club's other brittle starters as well.
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At their weddings, they are often celebrating a union that they have already sustained for years on their own, rather than suddenly shouldering the expectations of an increasingly brittle institution.
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Around 100 pits in Helin - buried in the hilly rural outskirts of the city of Xiaoyi - have been exhausted, and cluttered hamlets totter precariously on the brittle slopes of mines.
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Aluminum, which is lighter and cheaper than copper, shares some of these traits, but is more corrosive and brittle than its red rival and only about 60 percent as conductive.
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There are conceivable scenarios in which they keep complete control of Congress, are wiped out altogether, or relinquish the Senate but maintain a brittle grip on the House of Representatives.
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Melissa McCarthy gets yet another character who hides her wounded frustration under a brash confidence; Leslie Jones is brash and smart; Kristen Wiig is uptight, brittle, and a little wistful.
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As new, restrictive measures in Poland and Hungary show, even in supposedly stable democracies the rule of law is more brittle than many political scientists believed a few years ago.
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There is no flow over the dam near downtown Ipswich, and much of the riverbed below is exposed, a ribbon of dry rocks and brittle plants mottled with standing pools.
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Whitetails flicker like light in the winter woods, where my dog and I crack open the early morning, the ground a frozen patchwork of leaves, the brittle ice of dirt.
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" (I don't think my knees have ever been shown on Broadway.) Shortly after, there was Venus in "One Touch of Venus" and the more brittle Tracy Lord in "High Society.
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Key throws his whole self into portraying Ethan, no matter how nonsensical the character's actions tend to be; Parisse can be truly ferocious when she digs into Sam's brittle rage.
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Even the best plastic wears brittle and cracks over time, which is an issue I've encountered on weeks-long treks in the High Sierra while using another top-dollar backpack.
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In its own deceptively nonchalant way, the group has been defying the hard-edge, quantized norms of digital pop and hip-hop; it prefers insinuation and seduction to brittle transparency.
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Fat baobabs, some more than half a millennium old, have endured across Senegal, passed over for lumber largely because their wood is too brittle and spongy for use in furniture.
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For all that, most such systems embody intelligence that is narrow and brittle—good at one task in a well-defined environment, but liable to fail badly in unfamiliar settings.
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Siegel and Reaser as the two clashing older sisters, each brittle and defensive in their own ways, are particular standouts, while Jackson-Cohen makes Luke's struggle with addiction feel believable.
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The adulation of the people deepened Wilson's certainty that he was right on every issue, which made his conversation more brittle, less open to compromise; in a word, less democratic.
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I read transcripts of wiretapped Spanish conversations — the cartel's nickname for Mr. Sharp was Tata, slang for Grandpa — and pored through brittle copies of his decades-old day-lily catalogs.
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With elections due in November 2019, the remaining coalition partners are already in campaign mode and experts said the brittle government was unlikely to last more than a few months.
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All it takes is a glimpse of the grass on nearby hills, which is starting to turn from winter-green to brittle gold, and everything starts to look like kindling.
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Worldwide, about 2000 million people have brittle bones; one in three women, and one in five men, will suffer a fracture because of osteoporosis, often of the hip or spine.
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In this climate, there are only snow-shoveling solid citizens or the deadbeats whose slippery walks pose a daily existential threat to the brittle bones of my nice, elderly mom.
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These workers, known as "trimmigrants," patiently cut off the shaggy leaves and brittle stems of marijuana buds, trimming each one into a compact green nugget primed for bongs and brownies.
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Bitter political battles A fearsome day of pitched political battle Sunday emphasized the brittle political atmosphere and the still uncertain impact of impeachment on Democratic and Republican candidates in November.
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The slow slips in the lower reaches of a subduction-zone fault are thought to transmit small amounts of stress to the brittle crust above, where fast, catastrophic quakes occur.
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The surprise decision means that Brennan, who is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from a condition known as brittle bone disease, could face up to 12 years in prison.
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Withdrawing the latter and emptying its contents yields a bundle of yellowed and brittle newspaper articles, each one neatly trimmed at the margins and labeled with notes and filing markings.
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McConnell has an increasingly brittle relationship with Pelosi, and there was never much chance that he would cave into her demands and attempt to shape the business of his chamber.
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But it underscored the brittle national mood as key power brokers suggested that the latest assault on a Jewish target on US soil was an emblem of something badly wrong.
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There is already evidence that acidification can make mussels' shells more brittle, or weaken their grip on rocks, leaving them at greater risk of being swept away by advancing waves.
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Once the sun set each evening, she sat at dinner tables in villages and cafes, eating satin-smooth hummus and baklava with brittle flakes of pastry, their diamonds dripping syrup.
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The red brittle star - up to about 14 inches (35 cm) from arm tip to arm tip - lives in bright and complex habitats, with high predation threats from reef fish.
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Trump's tariffs reflect how the US used to advance its case for trade before the World Trade Organization ushered in a more brittle regime which worked for nearly 2800 years.
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