Sentence examples for tenuous boundary from inspiring English sources

A common thread in the exhibition is vision and the body: being immersed in or excluded from spaces; the tenuous boundary between inside and outside, self and other; and the disorientating effects of shifting perspectives".

Wrestling has it all: inoffensive violence, cartoonish archetypes, tons of hair oil, and an oddly tenuous boundary between the performance and the real-life egos that drive the business.

Yet, in very short order I understood, first, that the source of Ethan's conjuring powers has to do with the tenuous boundary between the land of the living and that of the dead -- and second, that "conjuring" requires sacrifices of the user's blood.

"The wall of separation" between the Church and State may be a guiding principle of American politics, but the huge cultural space that evangelical Protestantism and other politically active religious movements have gained in the United States demonstrates how tenuous are the boundaries between the secular and the religious (Lazcano 2005).

C1 occurs close to the boundary making its biome assignment tenuous at best.

However, while for young twigs of Picea abies, Thuja orientalis or Metasequoia glyptostroboides just a tenuous lignification can be observed in the injury boundary seven-ten days after wounding [ 39 ], a layer of strongly suberized cortical parenchymatous cells is already detectable by that time in P. canariensis.

The pertinent observations can be summarized as follows: TC-1 observes quasi-periodic (∼2 min period) cold-dense boundary layer (compared to a hot-tenuous plasma sheet) signatures interspersed with magnetosheath plasma at the dusk flank magnetopause near the dawn-dusk terminator.

The purpose is to create an exclusive network of Forbes alumni, but as anyone who has received one too many skill endorsements or tenuous connection requests on LinkedIn might know, the boundaries between professional and personal can often blur.

As new technologies continue to enter our lives and the boundary between reality and virtual reality becomes ever more tenuous, we would do well to remember the great lesson of cinema, and of Her in particular – that out of what appears fake can come truth.

In his world, the boundaries between the personal and the persona seem tenuous and ill-defined.

Democrats in the Nassau County Legislature unveiled a map of new district boundaries today that they hope will expand their tenuous one-vote majority in next fall's elections.