Sentence examples for tenuous work from inspiring English sources

In 1976, when I moved to Los Angeles, I desperately wanted a Mercedes 450 SLC, a car that was — even in used form — far more than I deserved or could afford at my entry-level, highly tenuous work as a scriptwriter.

In an average eight-hour workday there are roughly four hours of necessary work to be done, so you're free to use the entire rest of your time nursing tenuous work crushes that you'll never follow through with to make the day pass faster.

Changing just one sequence in the list would require performing the whole study all over again, which would represent several weeks of tenuous work.

Sometimes I dedicated whole days of my tenuous employment at a credit card company to furtive work on the novel.

In addition, the position of the large number of Hispanics who migrated to California was often tenuous; many worked under hard conditions for little pay, and others had immigrated to the United States illegally.

It is a tenuous line of work — a lesson he learned from his time in Indianapolis.

Starting from the most tenuous idea, he worked at white heat, improvising, discarding unpromising ideas, refining successful ones.

Except for within the health sector, most referrals made (represented by the white arrows in Figure 2) were unidirectional which suggests tenuous cross-sector working as well as little opportunity to re-engage health services if stroke survivors encountered problems in the workplace.

It would have been far more interesting to find out what Richard Meier thinks about Le Corbusier, who has had such an overwhelming influence on his own aesthetic, than for him to draw tenuous analogies between his work and the diametrically different architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Hayman writes that access to the work's "tenuous narratives" may only be achieved through "the dense weave of a language designed as much to shield as to reveal them".

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