Sentence examples for tenuous bonds from inspiring English sources

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.

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 invective leveled at Obama for attempting to forge a tenuous bond of trust with Iran also reminds McDermott of his trip to Iraq before the war, when he felt like he got some pretty good advice from Iraqis.

My own intuition is that a commitment on the part of researchers to interpret novel and pertinent genetic findings in a manner that can easily be shared with the patients to which the findings apply will create an added incentive [ 9] that will augment the currently tenuous bond between pediatrician, researcher and patient that is essential to pediatric genomic research.

By taking a stand against abortion, Mr. Bieber risks finding out how frail and tenuous that bond might be.