Sentence examples for thin sense from inspiring English sources

The instinct to survive above all else is the inheritance of a state of broken institutions, a politics of fear, and a frayed social fabric with only a thin sense of national cohesion.

Such an account, unlike Malebranche's, would make my will and God's will causes in exactly the same thin sense.

Universality in this thin sense is rightly taken to be a highly uncontroversial, perhaps even trivial, feature of reasons.

But his only argument seems to be that such an inversion is imaginable, or conceivable in a thin sense.

The parties are then described as rational in a formal or "thin" sense that is characteristic of the theories of rational and social choice.

We can and do refer to some people as trustworthy in the specific or thin sense and others as trustworthy in the full or thick sense.

Thin sensing layers have short analyte diffusion times enabling grating-based sensors to have fast response and reset times.

Diffraction gratings with such under-layers demonstrate a large signal change as the refractive index of the medium around the grating changes, and the thin sensing layers enables rapid detection of analytes.

Moreover, thin sensing layers have better adhesion properties increasing the long-term stability.

Trump's entire Art of the Deal is an ode to quid pro quo bargaining in its thinnest sense.

But the phrase is extremely vague, and allows for a country to be called "one's own" in an extremely thin, formal sense too.