Sentence examples for tenuous quality from inspiring English sources

The contemporary narcissist, he wrote, differs "from an earlier type of American individualist" in "the tenuous quality of his selfhood".

Still, there is a tenuous quality to the industry's resurgence.

These concept driven performance images focused on the tenuous quality of identity in the Age of 15 Minute Fame.

However, although government funding supports such collaborations, many factors can cause these arrangements to be tenuous, impacting the quality of health care received.

The link between financial valuation and intrinsic achievement and quality is becoming tenuous.

The combination of poor bone quality and a tenuous soft tissue envelope in a relatively immune-impaired population has led many surgeons to use a modification of the external fixation method of Ilizarov to correct deformity with a limited risk for surgical-associated morbidity (69– 74).

The Turkish forces were not of high quality and had only tenuous loyalty to Kerbogha.

And even the battle for quality of life can yield tenuous victories.

Maryland 16-100, 6-7), whose hopes of making the N.C.A.A. tournament are tenuous, will get one last chance at a quality victory before the conference tournament when it visits No. 21 North Carolina (18-6, 9-4) today.

It's not an irrational choice; researchers have found no more than a tenuous connection between the prices charged by providers and the quality of their work.

Yet the connections among the various storylines often feel tenuous at best, and Rowling's themes have an exaggerated Dickensian quality -- the sneering rich, indifference toward the struggling underclass, etc. -- that is timely enough, but also smacks of heavy-handedness.