frail humanity

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Starnone has earned a reader’s trust with another agile analysis of frail humanity.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2021

Somehow, I grasped that, if it weren’t for a fear of the unknown, there was an inherent goodness and frail humanity lurking in many of the kids who bullied and harassed me.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2016

I was afraid of breaching this security fence; afraid my questions would pierce their emotional armour to reveal their frail humanity; afraid they would cry.

From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2015

A frail humanity survives the unspeakable in this novel of the Burma-­Thailand Railway of World War II.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2014

I have not so far forgotten the days of my youth, or those affections which bind poor frail humanity but too much to the things of this world.

From Peveril of the Peak by Scott, Walter, Sir