Sentence examples for was so tenuous from inspiring English sources

But its life as a musical was so tenuous at birth, it required, and apparently still receives, resuscitation by content.

In short, my imagined food independence was so tenuous that an hour of weather had turned me back into a consumer with a shopping cart.

After Beijing, where the connection between the games and the host city was so tenuous it was virtually unnoticeable, this compact, beautiful city has embraced the games unambiguously (give or take a small – very small – minority of anti-games protestors).

The feel of the dances was so tenuous that it was hard to tell whether it was an "on" or "off" moment when Ms. Chalom drank from a water bottle at the side and Julie Ann Dobo, the evening's lighting designer, strode out at the last minute to move two lights.

In short, the evidence that Saddique had at any point been in possession of the CD or was ever aware of its contents was so tenuous that the trial judge rightly concluded that the case should be withdrawn from the jury.

(Maybe there's a reason why no Republican has won Iowa and New Hampshire since 1976?) But a competing theory would be that because Romney's victory in Iowa was so tenuous; Granite Staters just might view this as their opportunity to confirm a trend – to make him the de facto standard bearer.

Its surrealistic expression is probably a reflection of the Eskimo's awareness that, because life in the Arctic is so tenuous, humour is vital to psychological health.

Values range up to roughly 30,000 years, after which the nebula is so tenuous that it cannot be distinguished from the surrounding interstellar gas.

"The age claim is so tenuous that it distracts from a legitimate concern over the mining of such information," he said.

Mr. Wahid's hold on power is so tenuous that most organizations are waiting to see how the political drama plays out before they make new commitments.

The talks are so tenuous that even Stephen J. Hadley, Mr. Bush's ever-optimistic national security adviser, conceded there was little reason for the three leaders to get together.