And although the movie's narrative bears no relation whatsoever to the moody, annoyingly memorable poem whose name it shares, that's nothing new, either, in the long history of Poe cinema: a hefty majority of the films putatively based on his works have mighty tenuous connections to their sources.
As folk rock became the trend of the moment, however, its socially critical stance was quickly broadened and diluted, and the relationship between the music and its traditional sources became more tenuous, a matter more of "feeling" than of strict reverence for the past.
In the run-up to the Iraq war, he says, such politicization was "blatant and extensive," involving "misleading rhetorical artifice" and "duplicity" through "tenuous and unverified reports" from "unproven sources".
According to the usual unnamed sources, current talks are tenuous at best.
The tenuous lunar environment may have many sources of water; the surface layer is like a permafrost, in complex and active exchange with the atmosphere.
However, in the absence of seal samples from the adult males that succumbed, this hypothesis that mice were the source of the infectious agent remains tenuous.
But the campaign has been one of the primary sources of friction in Washington's tenuous relationship with Islamabad.
With jobs, credit and confidence all tenuous, the problem is reverberating back to the initial source of trouble: real estate.
The tenuous nature of the Atlas club's existence is a constant source of concern for the members.
Both the AP investigation and the UCS brief illustrate the critical, and sometimes tenuous, relationship that a nuclear power plant has with its water source.
