Sentence examples for tenuous sense from inspiring English sources

Tuesday's attack, which began around 1 15 p.m., was but the latest to chip away at that tenuous sense of security.

"Manchester by the Sea" — Kenneth Lonergan, meanwhile, doesn't offer much hope for his heartsick characters, just a tenuous sense of peace.

That's the way it was supposed to work, but when Lance and Kirsten left Florida the tenuous sense of obligation weakened and finally vanished, and Lance was no longer sending any money to the P.O.

And I think that this must have something to do with the fact that the fighters are so young, are often drunk or high, and have a pretty tenuous sense of the reality and the consequences of what they're doing.

Italy has charted its own way of belonging to Europe, struggling as few other countries do with fractured politics, uneven growth, organized crime and a tenuous sense of nationhood.

In only a tenuous sense, then, is E. coli a species in the way that, say humans or mice are species.The same thing is true of other well-studied bugs, such as those that cause typhus and plague, and is likely to be true of most bacteria.

Others are saying that the Bethlehem/ Unionconnection is too tenuous to make sense.

They both could use a wider range of physical gestures to convey youthful bravado, but they bring out the nervousness underneath the characters' attitude and make it possible to sense the tenuous bond of affection between them.

Others are more diffident, as if sensing their tenuous status.

More than its predecessors, "Family" brings home the sense of how tenuous existence was in western America in the early 20th century, and how desperate it could become.

And that's because Neil Pepe's production — starring Raul Esparza, Jeremy Piven and Elisabeth Moss — fulfills the most essential requirement for performing Mamet: the sense of a tenuous, ultimately shabby universe held in place by a shared, self-aggrandizing language.