Sentences with phrase «into tenuous»

These riveting stories provide helpful insights into the tenuous position of the colonial judiciary and the precarious state of politics in a variety of British colonies.

Rachel Stern delves into this tenuous Southern boundary between life and death in her current solo exhibition Yes, Death at Black & White Gallery / Project Space.

Alluding to this dissonance, Chapel Perilous seeks to place the viewer into a tenuous space where the spiritual and the technological are interwoven.

The record figure ties into the tenuous aftermath of the 1991 beating of Rodney King, which prompted action that wasn't left solely to the cops.

A hardened detective enters into a tenuous symbiotic relationship with the vicious serial killer she is tracking after earning the respect of the murderous madman in this vicious psychological thriller starring Demi Moore, Kevin Costner, and William Hurt.

Diffused into the tenuous lunar atmosphere or liberated by the occasional impact, heavy atoms such as silver could bounce around the moon until they reached a cold trap.

Furthermore, this rumor would see Roma, once again, enter into a tenuous transfer triangle with Chelsea, with Everton playing the role of Fiorentina in this instance.

On Tuesday of this week the country had settled into a tenuous calm, when police defending Government House — the Prime Minister's compound — opened the gates to anti-government protestors who spilled in and spent the afternoon, declaring «partial victory» and merry - making on the premier's lawn.

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For if this plaint of the air, this tinting of the light, this communication of a soul were so tenuous and so fleeting it was only that they might penetrate the more deeply into my being, might pierce through to that final depth where all the faculties of man are so closely bound together as to become a single point.

Edward Scribner Ames was more cautious than Mathews about injecting so tenuous a metaphysical notion as «personality - producing activities» into the empirical discussion of religion.

As a result, I was coerced into thinking, saying and doing things that provided me with some sort of tenuous guarantee that I wouldn't be left behind.

Can Christian love be divided into two kinds of love held together only in the tenuous bonds of paradox?

One need only look into the seminaries to get a clear picture of the tenuous position of preaching.

«We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook.

Much more than in earlier periods, many of the organizations through which the influence of Jesus made its way into society had only a tenuous connection with the churches or were entirely independent of them.

Veterans with the knowledge to manage their brakes, preserve tires and not put themselves in a tenuous position leading to being swept into the many accidents that occur on the Virginia half - mile track, hold a considerable advantage.

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has perhaps given a startling insight into how tenuous his current position is at the club by confirming that he won't be finishing his managerial career at Stamford Bridge.

Some rather tenuous reports last week had suggested Klopp was wanted by the Catalan giants to replace Enrique, despite the German being just 18 months into his reign at Anfield and having signed a six - year contract last summer.

Suddenly this new excitement, sickness, routine, or uncertainty is just enough to upset the tenuous potty routine and send your head - strong toddler into a potty - training backslide.

But if Cabrera somehow pulled out a win, it would inject yet another unstable element into the State Senate, where the loyalties and alliances that undergird power are tenuous already.

Close to the sun, the material stretches into a long, tenuous tail that reflects sunlight.

The mission would include a lander spending 35 days on the moon's surface to sample and screen material for traces of life; an orbiter spending three months taking measurements to unravel the basic structure of the planet; and the orbiter crashing into the moon, gathering data on Europa's tenuous atmosphere on the way down.

The photons punch into space whatever atmosphere is left, creating a tenuous high - velocity wind.

But for any impacting object to hit a tenuous ring hard enough to tilt it and set off such reverberations, both teams agree, it would first have to disintegrate into a cloud of fine debris that can hit a broad area of ring.

«Aurora [s] are very unlikely because (a) it's very unlikely there's a magnetic field to focus the charged particles into a small region of the atmosphere (necessary at other planets) and (b) the tenuous solar wind is likely deflected far [10s of Pluto radii] around Pluto,» Bagenal said in an email.

Interplanetary space is defined by the solar wind, a continuous stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun that creates a very tenuous atmosphere (the heliosphere) for billions of miles into space.

Indeed, sometime after the tenuous gas of the Solar nebula began collapsing into the proto - Sun within its host molecular cloud, a strong magnetic field developed that was instrumental in transporting rotational energy away from its core region in bi-polar jets of gas so that centrifugal forces created by the nebula's collapse did not grow so much as to halt continuing gravitational contraction.

The initial installment concerned a group of friends who shared tight bonds as children, but grew into adults with a more tenuous connection to one another, all vaguely dissatisfied and bored with life — particularly convenience store worker Kenji (Toshiaki Karasawa).

But once you get into the rhythm of Killing Eve, it's got Waller - Bridge's signature raw snark, some goofiness tucked into the mayhem and, just when that seems a tenuous thing to pull off, two excellent performances from Oh and Comer to make it work.

Eventually, Barbara wants more out of the relationship that Sheba is willing to give, and questions about loyalty and betrayal threaten to unravel their tenuous friendship into something more sinister than either of the participants is ready to handle.

Allusions to Bucephalus and Alexander the Great drag momentary mythical pretensions into the story, but the filmâ $ ™ s already tenuous grip on the boy's â $ œprimalâ $ relationship with the horse is dissipated by the loving but rather forced attempts to relive the horseracing romances of Old Hollywood.

Morocco's complicated relationships with Europe and other Arab countries, and its tenuous political situation are subtly worked into the plot of the film.

Whatever tenuous grasp on our attention it still manages to hold falls completely apart in a ridiculous gunfight sequence, and a final summation to the mystery, featuring over-the-top acting that sinks the entire film into the realm of the absurd.

But when the power goes out, the tenuous hierarchy rapidly descends into chaos.

Over the course of several weeks, Elizabeth and Jamie — who has no interest in education and wandered into Elizabeth's class out of sheer malaise — develop a tenuous bond, forged over diner food and Elizabeth's complaints about her four - hour commute.

It's also about the tenuous moment in time when sunny California, as the template for America at large, changed from the Summer of Love into something decidedly more sinister.

Part of the story unfolds in the 1960s through the early 70s, when The Beach Boys were a hit - making machine that Brian wanted to evolve into something radical and complex to the consternation of fellow band members, who were also family members, the disapproval of his emotionally and physically abusive father, and the stretching of his already tenuous grip on sanity.

It's only as the movie progresses into its palpably uneventful midsection that one's interest begins to wane, as McDonald, working from a script by McCabe - Lokos and Kelly Harms, has infused the proceedings with an increasingly episodic feel that slowly - but - surely wreaks havoc on the film's tenuous momentum.

However, thoughts of suicide, anguish over a lost love, has seeped into Ottway's soul, and his grip on the reality around him is tenuous at best.

Starring Chloe Grace Moretz as the eponymous Cameron, the film tracks the teenager's first tenuous steps into understanding her sexuality.

The script largely concerns him navigating the tenuous influences around him, while dealing with the hole he has dug himself into.

Though his argument was a bit tenuous («that delaying the Tonight Show into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting»), the way he stood his ground made him a hero, regardless of comedy tastes.

Even as she loses her admittedly tenuous grip on reality, giving into threats real or imagined, she remains a compelling figure of commiseration.

Although my niece is the fourth generation in our family to be born into relative comfort, she is a black child; her connection to privilege can still feel too tenuous to risk.

The heroic Sigurd slays a dragon, descends into the underworld, and rules over a tenuous peace in a postapocalyptic Britain peopled with genetic mutants.

The essence of Winterson's own tenuous life - story is mimicked in the structure of her memoir, a jumble of hazy pieces coalescing into a mind, a self.

We've got no insight into the value of those product platform assets, so our holding in CAPS is tenuous.

There are a total of 28 playable character in the vanilla package (obviously the Legendary Edition also bundles in all the DLC characters... more on those later) and NetherRealm has pretty much managed to weave all of them into the campaign somehow, which does occasionally make for a few fairly tenuous appearances.

In 1979 Twombly began casting some of these bricolages in bronze, thus transforming and preserving the tenuous forms into cohesive and more robust wholes.

Tenuous strings and shards of Plexiglas are pulled into form by small stones or metal pendulums tied almost invisibly to the 21 - foot high ceiling.