A blue felt blanket hung tenuously over the blinds, secured with tape — Mr. Ripka's attempt, when working night shifts, to block out the daylight while he sleeps.
Rather, taken as a whole they reflect an attempt to convey the particular ways Christmas felt different for queers, thus tying together, however tenuously, gays and lesbians as a distinct and oppressed minority group.
Poppins is always looking in mirrors because she feels only tenuously connected to the physical world.
And he has felt their wrath, regularly being called out for his personal wealth or, even more tenuously, his affiliation with Walkers crisps – cos crisps are bad for you, so, like, don't talk about liking Europe if you eat crisps.
In an editorial today, the newspaper said it felt compelled by widespread whispering about the cause of death, including broad hints on the evening news programs, to lift "the fragile tissue of silence, stretched tenuously over a fervor of rumors".
Since everything connects however tenuously to the academic program, faculty sometimes feel empowered to influence every administrative and policy decision.
If you are, then you might, just, however tenuously, understand the collective embarrassment the rest of us feel when you used the "n word" – although nowhere near the hurt that some will feel at such a loaded piece of language.
No, you feel more like a helpless and overwhelmed mess of human flesh tenuously stuck to a skeleton, a fragile arrangement that might otherwise fall to pieces, were you not suffused with the extraordinary energy of boundless affection.
Kraus has built a version of this troubling magic, tenuously connected frames offering partial visions of intimate scenes, inescapably mediated — an experience that can feel like voyeurism but isn't really voyeurism at all.
In New Haven, my mother and I revised our mode of thinking slowly, tenuously, and those changes informed our evolving sense of self.
Although ostensibly linked by plot and characters, the movies relate only tenuously to each other in the traditional sense.
