1.   But the impact of the case on the already frayed racial fabric of the country may in its own way be no less.

2.   Every day holds its humiliations, defeats, tiny tears in the already frayed fabric of her life.

3.   No more saying the networks are responsible for snipping away at the already frayed moral fabric of America.

4.   That is the hard part, and it will require mending a badly frayed fabric of trust between the two sides.

5.   Frayed social fabric, and ills like poverty and unemployment have been held responsible for the moral degradation.