brittleness

There has to be a certain brittleness and poor design to begin with.

His voice had a brittleness to it that I rarely heard.

Now she seemed confident and assured, but without the brittleness.

A little of his brittleness seemed to have gone.

The brittleness returned, and the layers of rank between them.

You may also, however, catch a fatal brittleness of tone.

Nails that spend too much time in water are also more prone to brittleness.

Because of its high hardness, it is generally considered Brittleness.

The brittleness allows the top to be removed, often without significant damage to the wood.

He felt nothing but the coldness and the brittleness of his bones.

Although Julia had detected some brittleness on more than one occasion.

Depending upon the strength and brittleness of the hair, some may snap off rather than being pulled out.

The main limitation on the use of ceramics in engineering is brittleness.

Its common name comes from the brittleness of its stems.

In all metal, brittleness tends to increase as the temperature drops.

Because of vinyl's brittleness during cold weather, make repairs in spring or summer.

It's quite simple, gentlemen, Kirk said, the brittleness of ice in his voice.

A brittleness fell from him that he had not known he carried.

She could tell by the strange stiffness and brittleness of his figure that he was still crying.

Most important for making weapons, they were easy to cast because they had little or no brittleness.

And yet even they seem stunned by the brittleness of what had once seemed bedrock ideals.

He knows how to use a fairly pedaling style to advantage without brittleness.

Brittleness in the frozen winters of northern Europe would have been evaluated.

And now the brittleness was gone, the wariness too.