Sentence examples for tenuous bond from inspiring English sources
Two new works, both by women, explore the all too familiar subject of an individual's conflict — and tenuous bond — with a group.
The massacre destroyed the tenuous bond between the Party and the intellectuals: some renounced their Party membership and broke with the regime; some went into exile or were jailed.
His son and coemperor, John VIII, ignored the tenuous bond that had been established and in 1421 supported a pretender, Mustafa, against the rightful heir to the Turkish throne, Murad II.
"Madame Sousatzka," her 1962 novel about the tenuous bond between an eccentric piano teacher and a child prodigy, was adapted in 1988 into a film with Shirley MacLaine in the title role.
She forms a tenuous bond with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) before the 75th annual Games.
They both could use a wider range of physical gestures to convey youthful bravado, but they bring out the nervousness underneath the characters' attitude and make it possible to sense the tenuous bond of affection between them.
The strongest parts of the book delineate the tenuous bonds of friendship between characters, especially between adults and children.
When the good news came that the pipeline would be halted, however temporarily, all those tenuous bonds broke down.
By taking a stand against abortion, Mr. Bieber risks finding out how frail and tenuous that bond might be.
How tenuous is a bond made through mutual torture?
Countries with only tenuous access to bond markets, as in the euro zone's periphery, may be unable to launch a big fiscal stimulus.Monetary policy is yet more cramped.
