Sentence examples for tenuity from inspiring English sources

His intention throughout is to combine truth with musical sensations, be they powerful or (to quote Shaw again) "wonderful in their tenuity and delicacy, unearthly, unexpected, unaccountable".

Wright cantilevered two balconies out over the stream from the ledge, and in accordance with his theory of " tenuity", chose to make the foundations as slender as possible.

Then, of course, there were structural implications of a building that had tenuity, and instead of a building without any, the houses built upon this plan are good for 300 years, I think - several centuries.

Because of that principle of tenuity, we could use the cantilever, and into structure came this element of continuity.

Alice Walker's touching and provocative collection of autobiographical stories is filled with truisms -- Life is a mystery... love does not accept barriers of any kind" -- yet Walker is capable of surprisingly complex insights into the tenuity of desire and marriage, the saving grace of friendship and the ambivalent experiences of African-Americans since the civil rights movement.