Sentence examples for tenuous notion from inspiring English sources

The day is not a pie but a vapor, a tenuous notion.

The promise of a new era of cooperation was always predicated on the tenuous notion that a change of tone and a shift in emphasis might be enough to bridge deep divisions.

Far removed from High Noon, its heroes were not lawmen but professional gunfighters, ready to die, not for the forward march of civilisation, but for adventure, gold and, maybe, some tenuous notion of honour.

Yet I believe that it would be for the good of film history, for watching movies, for the always tenuous notion of film as an art, and especially for "Citizen Kane," if the film could be spared from running, have its number hoist up in the rafters of the old Boston Garden, whatever.

It is a tenuous notion that a woman who has just been so viciously gang-raped would go to such lengths nudity, seduction to get her revenge.

As an amateur scholar, he under­stands how tenuous our notion of truth has to be — especially when it comes to our earliest histories — and seizes on that indeterminacy as both burden and liberation, at his most assured in the nexus of armchair anthropology and pleasurable fable.

And even in vapor form, the notion seems tenuous at this stage, given that Viacom, which had been talking about joining up with News Corp.'s Fox, General Electric 's NBC Universal and CBS, has stopped chatting for now.

"The Fighter," "The Master" and "American Hustle" prompted the moviegoing public to assign to Adams the tenuous idea of playing against type, a notion that led to Oscar nominations for Deborah Kerr ("From Here to Eternity"), Mary Tyler Moore ("Ordinary People"), Tom Hanks ("Philadelphia") and Jonah Hill ("Moneyball"), among others.

The stylistic and physical diversity of the work in this exhibition sometimes makes any notion of an art movement seem tenuous.

Species extinction seems to be the baseline in humanity's relationship with the natural world; the notion of sanctuary is a relatively new and tenuous idea.

First, and in contrast to chloroplasts and mitochondria, the nuclear compartment is in no way homologous to a prokaryotic cell, hence the whole (100 year old) notion that the nucleus was ever an endosymbiont is tenuous to begin with [ 120].