Sentence examples similar to tenuous virtues from inspiring English sources

But the meeting also highlighted Nixon's tenuous political position by virtue of the many Republican senators who did not attend the session.

Fascinating as are the labyrinthine ways of power (Rick Hertzberg charts them in the magazine this week), it's important to chart their tenuous relationship to aesthetic virtue as well.

Isango has in a recent press release tried to claim some sort of special status by virtue of a tenuous connection with the history of District Six.

He had spent a lifetime observing the business of ruling – first within Florence and then across Europe – and he knew only too well that the link between virtue and success was tenuous at best.

Tenuous Tether.

The calm is tenuous.

A tenuous calm reigns.

The situation remains tenuous.

It's tenuous, obviously.

About virtues.

But perceptions are tenuous.