It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.
I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.
Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.
The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.
Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess.