Sentence examples for delicate and tenuous from inspiring English sources
This is a delicate and tenuous relationship because the grant maker holds the power of the purse, but grantees deserve to be respected for their role.
You'll recall last December the confrontation that occurred in Congress and between the Congress and the White House over a temporary extension of those cuts for two years based on an argument that a tax "increase," that is to say permitting the tax rates to assume their levels prior to the cuts, should not take place during a delicate and tenuous economic recovery.
It is her gauzy garment, and it is held in her narrow and tenuous grip, in her delicate hand.
The cells within the NP have evolved to tolerate the otherwise 'hostile' environment of low oxygen levels and tenuous nutrient and gas diffusion properties that are in turn mediated by the endplates through delicate homeostatic regulatory mechanisms [ 3, 4].
He raises personal cinema to a new height, by way of an aesthetic that blends control and improvisation in delicate, tenuous balance.
The first sketch is delicate but tenuous; a variation on the memoirs Stendhal wrote years after he went to Italy in Napoleon's army.
They shared a camaraderie that was both intense and tenuous.
Increasingly, such separation into various sub-types of till has become, however, highly debatable and tenuous.
Careers became more flexible - and tenuous.
Rimbaud would later suggest that he was near death at this time, and the group of delicate, tenuous poems he then wrote now known as Derniers Vers ("Last Verses")—express his yearning for purification through all this suffering.
