Utiliser "tenuous" dans une phrase

1. ’ Kara explained, all too aware of how tenuous it all sounded

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2. His evidence was tenuous, but it certainly didn't point to God's doing

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3. You base a lot of your theories on Darryl's tenuous arithmetic

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4. digging out the information from tenuous leads

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5. She told them about the political situation, how the Warlord of Pennsylvania had moved his forces all the way to the Potomac as soon as the Nigerians went home, using the judges and their constables and a tenuous membership in the Commonwealth of Laurentia as a facade of legitimacy

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6. But then he took some deep breaths and tried to understand, keeping ahold of his tenuous grip on reality

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7. I could get a fiber, but it leaves the connection more tenuous

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8. The words 'Gale Force' was introduced into the language by one strong limbed poet who tried to clamber over the ramparts to reach the tenuous safety of a large clump of scurry bush, only to be thwarted and bowled back over the edge at his every attempt

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9. They only had a tenuous affiliation with each other

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10. There was more debris, much of it floating in a tenuous cloud far from the initial find of the

11. Sending out his anima, the Teller sought the old Custodian's aura, locking his thoughts onto the tenuous contact, flooding Grey's mind with his own determination

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12. “And Alistair? Was he even a threat, with his tenuous nature?”

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13. Along with these tenuous feelings went a shroud of coldness emanating from the cave deep below Fire Rock, the cave where even now, a beautiful orb span madly, gathering speed as its destiny neared completion

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14. I was the only one who knew our true mission, and it was a tenuous one at best

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15. I tried to kick him in the nuts to shut him up before he would say anything to deteriorate the already tenuous atmosphere or broach subjects that would only lead to more questions; I failed though, wildly flailing my leg as if something horrible was chewing on it

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16. There was a Beerhouse car hire company and several tenuous links between ‘Noah’, ‘beer’ and ‘houses’, but nothing else

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17. Midrash allows great scope of commentary on Biblical text, with only the most tenuous connection or even with no apparent connection at all to the actual text

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18. All this put me in the tenuous position of swimming upstream

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19. They would see to the passage of all into the tenuous safety of the main camp

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20. matter how tenuous, was warranted

21. They would see to the passage of all into the tenuous safety of

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22. Yet, the tremendous expansion of viewership of the Fox News Channel proves that people want to hear both sides of political and international news, and this confirms the tenuous position of the one-sided presentations by ‘liberalism’ through its voices in the many major news outlets in the visual media

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23. But with quantum physics, even this tenuous result would be superseded by the atom itself not really being anything that exists until it is measured

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24. by the tenuous ordinary plasma which is generated by

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25. of tenuous cold dark plasma

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26. tenuous plasma in the Earth system would therefore be composed of partial y ionized plasmas of heavy

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27. The hall was illuminated by hundreds of small lanterns and its tenuous flames were competing with the gigantic light of a lamp that was rocking in the way of the roof

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28. -I know it, an angel name really! – He said depositing a tenuous kiss on my hand

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29. We reached a soft hill where a tenuous breeze was rocking the thin grass that covered a big extension

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30. For his mouth began to slide a tenuous blood thread

31. grow because their hold on the region was tenuous

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32. It was like a shock wave to the Irish in England and seemed to shatter the accepted feeling they had there, however tenuous that was

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33. The knowing of only one person in the town of his birth was what deflated Matthew that day and that was tenuous at that

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34. ‘Human proclivity is a tenuous thing, isn’t it?,’ she contemplated, bogged down by self-doubt

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35. He kept his eyes fixed on the moonlit space of marble, on which a tenuous shadow hovered

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36. As his hand touched the bars, a sharp shock knocked him backwards into his companion and both hit the floor breaking my tenuous hold on their minds

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37. He slashed ferociously at sounds and movements he heard or imagined he heard in the darkness near him, and once his sword cut through some yielding tenuous substance that might have been cobwebs

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38. and nearly eighty years of the tenuous, trouble-torn rule of

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39. I breathed a prayer of thanks to my Maker as I felt it’s thin, tenuous thread

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40. I lunged for the gun again and managed a tenuous grip on the handle, but Bailey had recovered and she kicked it out of my hands

41. optimization with volatile changes in the cost of capital is tenuous; we assume that the

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42. Investing on the basis of forecasts is tenuous

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43. Even more tenuous than the shape of the curve is the fact that we are making

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44. It is an exciting and also a tenuous time for teachers, when a student

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45. Where healthy trolls might, upon reaching land, have tried to kill and/or eat anything that moved, now they were more tenuous

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46. It threatens to tear our tenuous

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47. harbor no thoughts of consequence, should I lose my tenuous hold on

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48. The boy looked awfully tenuous with acne

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49. sending a tenuous shock wave throughout his body

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50. tenuous black man holding up a Budweiser can that had

51. with tenuous arguments that gloss over historical fact and generally do

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52. It danced inside her, small and tenuous, but part of something eternal

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53. “A tenuous peace at best,” Sarek said

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54. But he at least now had something to go on, and a possible, if tenuous, link between all this and his uncle

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55. Why, I too was guilty of laying the superstructure of ‘Imperial Infrastructures’ over the tenuous foundations of Rajan Builders; wonder how I suffered no qualms in gambling with the public monies to raise my domestic stock; but my love for my woman and the luck of the investors might have helped me succeed in my unethical venture; whatever, it was then that I lost my soul and became a devil’s slave, though I didn’t realize it then

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56. even (too often especially) for father and child where males exist, since his single very tenuous connection is by the impersonal aftereffect of a sex act (fertilization not in father’s body/control), while she grows it in her own body as an indispensable/integral part of the entire life process

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57. These trees have tenuous leaves and soft tissues, therefore their veins shrink and their movement stops in winter of which causes their leaves to fall down; otherwise, the water in the tissues of their leaves will become frozen when the cold becomes bitter which causes the tubes of their veins to burst and die

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58. These trees have tenuous leaves and soft tissues

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59. tenuous and becoming more so every second he

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60. Had tenuous connection with the people in your day

61. Because of this tenuous conclusion, Johnny promised himself he'd not let the kitty go out of his sight before it was divvied up

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62. The speed of her reactions and the complete lack of hesitation takes Rapunzel by surprise, and this new shock on top of all the others is the final crack in her tenuous grasp on self control

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63. His sources had dried up, shied away and all he had were tenuous threads that suggested directions but which bore no definite signs

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64. The other is tenuous to say the least

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65. “And the other one is, what did you call it, tenuous?”

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66. " But more probably, it was my neurotic fear of involvement or, perhaps my tenuous grip on "freedom" that

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67. aspects of individualism can be tenuous

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68. If Cedar died his hold on Hemlock would be tenuous

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69. But there is a tenuous link between the

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70. In any case, when my wife was home for a few days, our pent up sex drives exploded and renewed our increasingly tenuous union

71. The pain of Laura"s bolting gradually faded but a tenuous shadow never completely left me

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72. He stopped abruptly as his mind strove manfully to connect the tenuous strands of the case to the latest information

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73. It may be tenuous, but it beats searching all of Mexico

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74. But then wasn't that the way of all trends? Through tenuous, unverified arteries they came to be

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75. and through arteries just as tenuous, just as unverified, they went

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76. But then, wasn't that the way of all trends? Through tenuous, unverified arteries they came to be

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77. We had come to a tenuous agreement, mostly because I was sulking, that I would just move straight to my new office, which was conveniently cattycorner to his office, instead of going to my old station

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78. The billowing cloud was still flowing up from the area but now it had a tenuous, harmless look about it

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79. Anxiety had bubbled in Joe’s belly all morning, but it started now to give way to a tenuous sense of calm, more determined than nervous

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80. The island was nothing more than a sandy spit, connected to shore by a tenuous thread of bamboo slats

81. With that, he broke with the tenuous existence that he had created in the village

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82. His grasp of current events was therefore even more tenuous, and it was not until a couple weeks afterward, stopping into the post office in town to pick up his mail, that he would find his “Order to Report for Armed Forces Physical Examination,” covered in stamps marked FORWARD

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83. This distinction may seem rather tenuous to the layman, and it is not commonly accepted on Wall Street

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84. She reached for the banister, but her falling weight was too much for her tenuous grasp

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85. “The trust I have with these people is so tenuous

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86. " The fact that he had called her Mrs Boong pleased her; it was a little tenuous bond between herself and this strange man that he should pull her leg about her sunburn, her native dress, and the baby that she carried on her hip like a Malay woman

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87. • Less familiar historical findings include the pervasive success of value, carry, and momentum strategy styles in several markets as well as the tenuous relation between volatility and average returns

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88. • The empirical relation between volatility and expected returns is tenuous

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89. • The link between equity market returns and economic growth is surprisingly tenuous

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90. As always, the bubble would have a rational precipitating factor, but investors should remember that the link between economic growth and equity market returns is quite tenuous (see Chapter 16)

91. Slight and tenuous, she slipped from my embrace, and secretly kissing my hand, she went to Michael and laid her hands on his shoulders and looked across the table at Mona

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92. She seemed ghostly, her sculptured profile softened by a tenuous blue light, and he realized that she was crying in silence

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