The heyday of Ottoman court painting ended with him, and its justification was always tenuous, as Black describes it: Pictures are forbidden by our faith.
Several essays wrestle with the complicated, tenuous relationship between black and white Americans.
This got me thinking about pawn storms in general and then I remembered the stunning game Mariotti-Gligoric – not a Sicilian Dragon, admittedly, but a King's Indian (the tenuous link being Black's fianchettoed bishop).
Winning the trust of Jewish Democratic voters is all the more difficult for Mr. Obama because of the tenuous relations between blacks and Jews.
Several groups that experienced commercial success, such as the Flaming Lips and Wilco, drew on the whiter genres of the sixties — respectively, psychedelic music and country rock — and gradually Brian Wilson, of the Beach Boys, a tremendously gifted musician who had at best a tenuous link to American black music, became indie rock's muse.
Several groups that experienced commercial success, such as the Flaming Lips and Wilco, drew on the whiter genres of the sixties respectively, psychedelic music and country rock and gradually Brian Wilson, of the Beach Boys, a tremendously gifted musician who had at best a tenuous link to American black music, became indie rock's muse.
Much of the comedy and pathos derive from others recoiling from these "hillbilly" backvelders, each reviled as "a fucken backward piece of low-class shit", whose authority over black people was tenuous even of old.
Indeed, the poll underscored Mr. Bloomberg's tenuous connection with Hispanic and black residents, despite his repeated efforts to reach out to them by emphasizing issues like low-income housing.
His manner of speaking acknowledges the slight comedy of his situation: a black man, holder of tragically tenuous rights, dressed to the nines and participating in the courtliest of rituals.
Instead, there is a large black-white disparity in the estimated impact of overall immigration, a robustly negative effect of own-race immigration on native blacks' wages, and only tenuous, specification-sensitive evidence of an own-race effect for native whites or cross-race effects for either group.
