Brittle
Brittle adjective - Having a texture that readily breaks into little pieces under pressure.
Both words in one sentence
- The unreality of the movie is mentioned by a designated demoman, who asks if "anyone's ever seen marble spark like that." For those not aware, marble can be relatively hard or soft as minerals go, but it is uniformly brittle and would more likely shatter from a gunshot instead of spark.
Source: Bullet Sparks - Metals that are brittle, soft, flammable, react violently with water or air or are otherwise useless for smithing swords and shields from them never appear in fantasy, despite there being a lot of these in Real Life.
Source: Fantasy Metals -
A few paragraphs are devoted to what the Wendigo is barely capable of comprehending about Allen's body; describing it as, "a soft, five-pointed star of rind and pulp enclosing a strange, spider-like machinery of brittle bone."
Source: Humans Through Alien Eyes
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