Once more he had spliced the fragile threads of understanding.

The fragile threads change color with changing light and sometimes seem to fade into the background.

He hangs onto hope and sanity by the most fragile thread.

He let it hold him, swaying above the abyss, and slowly pulled himself back up that fragile thread.

Our coalition government is bound together by a fragile thread.

The technology all hung by a fragile thread, however.

He was terrified of ripping the fragile thread to shreds.

Every fragile thread of pleasure was pulled taut at the same time.

Yet another thread, however fragile, that connected the lives of two girls across the decades.

Cheap tricks haven't paid off this season; what has is a fragile thread of naivete.