Sentence examples for seem precarious from inspiring English sources

The creative industries seem precarious, but being a banker is, too, these days.

Their unpleasant profiles seem precarious, as if they were the rear halves of ships that have been cut in two.

As in Furman's previous work, most of the protagonists are female, and several had mothers who died at a young age, making everything in their lives that follows seem precarious and tentative.

Against the backdrop of a notable recent rise in divorce rates in China (Davis 2010; Quach and Anderson 2015), our participants' couple relationships do not seem precarious in the sense that they are more likely to fail than relationships among Chinese nationals.

Mr Eisner's position had seemed precarious.

By contrast, Gooden's jittery hold on sobriety seems precarious at best.

When Geoff, our producer Michael Peyser and I arrived in Argentina in early 2002, the situation seemed precarious.

Hadid has made the transition from visionary to builder, but the achievement still seems precarious.

While his living situation seems precarious and his legal troubles unlikely to go away soon, Mr. Johnson has been anything but resigned.

In 2008-9, while the future of some automakers seemed precarious, companies hit the pause button, freezing the development of many planned models.

By the end of "Songs Without Words," she has returned to a similar attitude, even if it now seems precarious and hard won.