Sentence examples for feel tenuous from inspiring English sources

Then last year, after Otto, then 3, was put on the waiting list for P. S. 276's pre-K program, their plan began to feel tenuous.

This section feels looser and more meandering than the first; when you are watching it, the links between them feel tenuous.

Yet the connections among the various storylines often feel tenuous at best, and Rowling's themes have an exaggerated Dickensian quality -- the sneering rich, indifference toward the struggling underclass, etc. -- that is timely enough, but also smacks of heavy-handedness.

Daily drains on purchasing power caused by high fees, exorbitant rates and limited access to affordable credit and basic banking services are making it more difficult for millions of Americans to enter the middle class and making the foothold that many have feel tenuous.

The connections between past and present feel tenuous, and the Oprah-ready mood of uplift is tainted with a strain of cuteness (Holden).

I imagine the ground felt tenuous, unsteady, strange.

Wrong country, surely, but then the movie's grip on Italy feels tenuous at best.

Even after more than a decade, life for the refugees still feels tenuous.

As in a lot of Hollywood movies set in the world of letters, the connection to the real world of authors and publishers feels tenuous.

Yet a place at the top of the mountain often feels tenuous in a sport that does not always reward talent or even the better team.

Bergman achieves some marvellous effects with burnished color, but his connection to these men and women feels tenuous and strained, and too often ends in a painful, frustrating standoff.