“For just this instant, the soft, plastic rock behaves brittly, just as soft Silly Putty breaks apart if it is jerked apart.”

“Deformation bands have been referred to by various terminologies in reports of field observations and laboratory experiments of brittly deformed porous rock.”

“In most cases these are brittly deformed, so it is likely that the thickness of basement rock carried on these thrust planes was never large.”

“Andrew Grassie's brittlely clever Photo-Realist paintings on paper, of rooms in the gallery other than the ones where they hang, do no harm.”

“I said no, and she smiled brittlely, before getting on her bike and driving off, the previously mentioned squeaks being heard for a few miles off.”