Sentence examples for tenuous like from inspiring English sources

It sounds bleak, but instead it's rather dreamy and tenuous, like the thoughts one has in the brief moment between sleeping and waking.

It is to be expected that genetic links that are tenuous, like that with ABCA7, would be more significant in some studies and less in others, simply because populations, purely by chance, would vary slightly, he explained.

Some of Powell's psychoanalysis into the possible roots of that feeling of inadequacy seems tenuous, like the observation that "Benjamin's childhood geographical environment and the tensions within his family both fostered the sense of apartness which is a prerequisite of creativity".

If such a system exists, it is either tenuous like the rings of Jupiter or is tightly confined to less than 1,000 km in width.

Some of the comparisons are tenuous, like Leatherface's entry in Marcus Nispel's Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, but others, including the supernatural flock of birds in Jeff Nichols' 2011 Take Shelter, are spot-on. .

Night clouds or noctilucent clouds are tenuous cloud-like phenomena that are the "ragged edge" of a much brighter and pervasive polar cloud layer called polar mesospheric clouds in the upper atmosphere, visible in a deep twilight.

Government is the largest employer; many people run tenuous businesses like tea shops or tiny stores.

INDEED, the narrator's "crabwalk" lacks subtlety in that its juxtapositions fail to differentiate between family affinities, such as those between parents and children; circumstantial connections, such as that between the shipwreck and Paul's character; and very tenuous associations, like the one between the assassination of Gustloff and the destruction of the ship named in his honor.

NASA's newest lunar probe has officially begun its mission to study the moon's tenuous atmosphere like never before, as well as track how dust moves across the lunar sky.

However tenuous norms like that might seem right now, with something resembling term limits, the US would join every other democracy in the world in not having lifetime appointments for its highest court.

But if you're a Democrat and your attachment to those ideals is so tenuous that, like Buzz Bissinger, you're jumping ship after one debate despite the man's many significant accomplishments (Obama's Top 50 Accomplishments ), I'd suggest you rethink both the concept of loyalty and political vision.