Sentence examples for a tenuous concept from inspiring English sources

Given the absurdity of a universe ruled by chance, in which harmoniums suddenly appear on sidewalks and frogs rain from the sky (as happens at a key moment in "Magnolia") responsibility may be a tenuous concept, but it is what holds Mr. Anderson's couples and communities together.

In addition, the relative importance of predictor variables is a tenuous concept, and comparison of the importance of predictors is not always the best approach in multiple regression.

Europe has always been a rather tenuous concept.

At its worst, it is exploitative, coming up with products that make a tenuous link with the concept of halal – patronising customers in the way that some suppliers seek to create "girly" versions of mainstream products.

But the concept is a tenuous thread on which to hang an art show.

But it's a tenuous advantage: currently, it's Mandarin-speakers who struggle to translate novel concepts in molecular biology into English, but it could be the other way round.

A tenuous calm reigns.

It was a tenuous line.

It's a tenuous connection.

It is a tenuous balance.

The place may have a tenuous atmosphere.