Sentence examples for tenuous manner from inspiring English sources

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Russert had a good career going, and he was dedicated to it, and not at the expense of his loved ones, not at the direct physical expense of anyone, by all accounts, and indirectly connected to the distress of only a few hundred thousand combatants and civilians, in the tenuous manner of so many of us, though perhaps less tenuously than most.

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It is useless "K's" wanting to get to the castle unless the reader wants to get there too; the basis of sympathy between them is tenuous, and "K's" manners do not increase it.

It is a tenuous but suitable enough analogy for the manner in which he suits his new club.

His manner of speaking acknowledges the slight comedy of his situation: a black man, holder of tragically tenuous rights, dressed to the nines and participating in the courtliest of rituals.

Schoenzeit also seems to have suffered from the same tenuous grasp on reality that animates Willy Loman's memories and visions: Always, he returned to his fogged manner, and after the joke had faded from his mind the light which seemed to brighten his countenance, too, disappeared, and he was once more enigmatic and incomprehensible.

The calm is tenuous.

A tenuous calm reigns.

The situation remains tenuous.

It's tenuous, obviously.

But perceptions are tenuous.

But security remains tenuous.

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