Sentence examples for sounds tenuous from inspiring English sources

The theory, to my untutored ears, sounds tenuous, and for once Morris doesn't express it very fluently - he seems embarrassed to be relying on someone else's thinking.

The voice on the phone sounded tenuous, a bit familiar.

Times New Viking, a lo-fi trio from Columbus, Ohio, couldn't sound more tenuous: its performances are clumsy and muddled, marked by half-shouted boy-girl vocals, impossibly fuzzy guitar and barely discernible drums.

Developments in air-coupled transduction and electronics are briefly treated, although the emphasis here is on methods of characterization and inspection, and in overcoming limitations inherent in the use of such a tenuous sound coupling medium as air.

But will fans listen to what it has to say? Research suggests the link between sport and behaviour change isn't as tenuous as it sounds.

Tenuous as all this might sound for any sort of functional governance structure, the Elvin have overseen several centuries of relative peace, apparently thanks to the power of magic.

However tenuous and however hippy dippy that sounds, "feeling" has a lot to do with why people by CE devices.

It sounds bleak, but instead it's rather dreamy and tenuous, like the thoughts one has in the brief moment between sleeping and waking.

However, the songs – five of which are new, including "Lazarus" itself from Bowie's forthcoming album, Blackstar – apparently have only the most tenuous connection, if that, with the onstage action, which sounds like a colourful riot of performance-art choreography, video projection, surrealism, general weirdness, and speculative philosophy.

Its sound was surging, explosive and often overbearing; it seemed to have only a tenuous connection to mainstream jazz traditions.

I don't want to sound mean, but isn't he just another rich bloke using the Bible as a tenuous justification for his lifestyle?