Sentence examples for tenuous kind from inspiring English sources

Here, the female prison is not marred by abuse; it is a place of sorority, albeit of a tenuous kind.

Bacon's four kinds of free spirits are relevant for his 'quaternion theory': The planets move around the earth in the ether (a tenuous kind of air), which belongs to the 'mercury quaternion': it includes watery bodies and mercury.

He asked how many people in the room had fled liberal Massachusetts and its tax rates — and, by tenuous extension, the kinds of policies Romney favors.

Tenuous allegiances form and dissolve.

"We are still a long way from being anywhere near normal, and our gains are kind of tenuous, too".

At the same time, the actual correlation between the number of tweets a show's viewers generate and the ratings of those programs to data has been kind of tenuous.

The social democratic compromise of Fordism -- a kind of tenuous harmony between money power and people power -- depended on the strength of unions.

I'm not really sure what all of these pictures are trying to say, but I think it usually involves some kind of tenuous link to how "we are all animals".

"If you're Duke or Wake, you'd probably be in a more tenuous position, especially based on what kind of revenue they'd be generating for football".

Some prophecies of disaster are tenuous; we've had a lot of that kind this week, with all the promises that the Rapture, the beginning of the end, will be on Saturday.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin May 20, 2011 Some prophecies of disaster are tenuous; we've had a lot of that kind this week, with all the promises that the Rapture, the beginning of the end, will be on Saturday.