Sentence examples for tenuous resolution from inspiring English sources

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"The Killing," which concluded its first season on Sunday night with the tenuous resolution of the central crime, Rosie's murder, has been as much mystery as melodrama.

Only at the very end of the piece, after an emotionally draining account of Owen's Strange Meeting ("It seemed that out of battle I escaped") does the whole musical texture integrate – full orchestra, chamber orchestra, soprano, tenor, baritone and chorus – into a tenuous resolution: "Let us sleep now".

This is at best a tenuous resolution but perhaps the only viable one in an age of genocidal actors, nuclear-armed states, loose weapons of mass destruction plus strident religious, ideological and nationalistic movements.

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The resolution was tenuous, but the center held and the group waded through the knee-deep water before trudging on to that night's camp, wet and quiet.

But let's face it, there isn't much of a difference between this year and the last, and if you were an obnoxious drunk last year there's a good chance you're going to be the same obnoxious drunk this year if all you've done is make a tenuous new year's resolution.

After Dinny too begins dating (Curt, the charming southern boy), things remain tenuous between the former friends the book does not see a neat resolution to what are real problems.

Meanwhile, other governments have called for resolution of the conflict between the two states, fearing it could threaten a tenuous cease-fire reached between Armenia and Azerbaijan following the bloodshed in the 1990s.

Tenuous Tether.

The calm is tenuous.

A tenuous calm reigns.

The situation remains tenuous.

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