For now, I'm in a tenuous type of remission reserved for "high risk" leukemia patients in the first year after transplant.
Long before Julia -- more like a year and a half ago -- I was caught in a tenuous friendship with a girl named Saskia.
As a former Taoist and current atheist, I have a tenuous relationship with the spirit world.
I was getting to grips with reggae and dub, and thanks to John Peel and crackly recordings of Kiss FM made by mates with houses that faced London I had a tenuous grasp of what Chicago house and Detroit techno were.
(I had seen radiographs at home — bones in a tenuous envelope of flesh).
But she is in a tenuous position.
Until I joined their ranks, I had forged a tenuous truce with my conscience where the less fortunate were concerned, handing out spare change or writing a charity check with a mix of queasy self-pride and guilt.
And I put my family into a tenuous position there for a while.
For some years up to the end of World War I this area was under a tenuous German colonial authority.
Ilan and Jacob were both at least twenty years older than me, and they called themselves philosophers, although only Jacob seemed to have an actual academic position, and maybe a tenuous one, I couldn't quite tell.
