Meanings of fragile ego in English

No, I've already spotted that our Bragg has a very fragile ego.

Today's sensitive footballer and his fragile ego no longer allow it.

It had been his job to temper Ross's narcissistic tendencies without crushing his fragile ego.

Beneath the brash exterior obviously lurked a fragile ego.

My assistant's fragile ego had obviously been bruised.

He is such a freakish talent, and has such a fragile ego, that it is hard to relate to him.

That might have been another blow to her fragile ego following the flop of her recent album, so it's best that she wasn't around.

But Wit had to say this delicately; COs had fragile egos.

Don't you know that writers have huge and fragile egos?

There are visitors to impress, a home crowd to appease and fragile egos to protect.

Others with more fragile egos would have tossed in the towel, or faked an injury.

Those men's fragile egos cannot handle the fact that their other half is not so much into them.

And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males.

These are strong words which may be deserved but was this really the cutest play given footballers' fragile egos and his own high-maintenance style?

This explains why, when asked questions about ego or when facing charges of having fragile egos, many men deny that they experience anything like this.