Sentence examples for tenuous thing from inspiring English sources

Was love really such a tenuous thing?

"It's such a tenuous thing," Pierce said.

"Acting is such a tenuous thing," he said.

I think confidence is a very tenuous thing in life".

THE barometer measuring happiness inside a New York apartment tower is a tenuous thing, forever threatening to swing from content to disgruntled at the slightest provocation.

What it lacks, most interestingly, is the sticky hothouse eroticism of some Dutch colonial writing, the ponderously knowing omens that empire is only a tenuous thing.

But in changing the game Pitchfork helped create its own ecosystem of stars, making the idea of being indie, whatever that might mean, less of a frightening, tenuous, risky thing.

Congress can and must act before realignment creates a situation so tenuous, the whole thing falls apart.

As that bastion of moral rectitude and good judgment, Goldman Sachs, prepares to market Forest City Enterprises' just-above-junk-rated bonds for the very controversial Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn -- which includes the most expensive basketball arena in the country (and history, I suppose) -- I'm struck by how tenuous the whole thing is.

A football season is always a tenuous proposition; bad things will happen.

That could make things tenuous for short-term investors.