There were moments when the connections between dancers, however purposely tenuous, read too vaguely, or when transitions between sections were forced.
At first it seems as though the spiral may be a tenuous link between stories, but when you start reading – despite the fact that all four stories are very different – it is clear that they belong together.
Just up the road, a captain from the Congolese Army, with whom the rebels have declared a tenuous cease-fire, sat atop a mound of biscuit wrappers and cigarette butts, studiously reading a paperback titled "The Way to Happiness".
By sending a series of Rydberg atoms through the cavity one by one and reading them as they exited, Dr Haroche's team was therefore able to track precisely how a photon behaves when in a superposition without nudging it out of that tenuous state.Where Dr Haroche used atoms to probe individual photons, Dr Wineland did the opposite.
Georges is a musicologist, it seems; Anne is a piano teacher; they're a long-married couple, they're retired; they listen to music, read, attend concerts, are in tenuous touch with their grown daughter, also a classical musician.
She suggested a journal of one woman's pregnancy at http:// womencentral.msn.com/family/ pregnancy/index.asp, but I did not want to read too far ahead, for fear of jinxing the tenuous life within me.
John Delury, a North Korea expert at Yonsei University, in Seoul, told me, "Unfortunately, Xi's own ties with Kim Jong-un are tenuous, and thus Beijing is of not much use in getting a read on Pyongyang or facilitating diplomacy.
And so, with my expectations of further life as tenuous as those of old Bolkonsky falling off his horse, I search my shelf for the copy to read yet again.
Literary knowledge, difficult to define, can redeem some portion of our imaginative poverty in what seems an increasingly tenuous age for deep reading.
