Sentences with phrase «rather tenuous»

In addition, it is rather tenuous to analogize hard forks to mineral extraction.

While it's reported that the U.S. employment market is slowly improving, those who've been able to retain their jobs or find new jobs still feel rather tenuous.

Kim notes that it «t it seems rather tenuous to link mental health risks with a micro-unit design that incorporates generous common spaces to improve the overall living experience.»

Utilizing a straight - forward, empirical analysis of the RSS satellite temperature dataset reveals a rather tenuous (non-existent?)

According to curator Iles's rather tenuous argument, when we watch films such as Poledna's we become akin to cyborgs — part organic, part technological.

The connection may at first seem rather tenuous as there is little evidence that Alberto Giacometti and Yves Klein, who were nearly thirty years apart in age, ever interacted directly.

For all of the praise lauded at AAA blockbusters and their cinematic traits — think of Naughty Dog's handling of Uncharted, or the bum - numbing cutscenes found in the Metal Gear saga — the relationship between video games and film is rather tenuous.

It's a rather tenuous setting, sure, but that has never been the series» strong point.

The plot is thin, a bit ridiculous, rather tenuous and silly.

The final news of the day is the rather tenuous suggestion from Sky Sports that — because no - one has made a bid for Sporting Lisbon's Miguel Veloso — Arsenal are ready to launch a bit for the player.

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.

The link is rather tenuous as the quotation from Luke comes from the Zacchaeus story where in 19:9, Jesus, in announcing salvation, proclaims that «this man, too, is a son of Abraham.»

Hence we make now the division between radical Islam and Muslim people who are normal, but the distinction is rather tenuous and thin, as Mohammed did and said some wild things, that they really should adhere to.

Not exact matches

Rather than the theologically tenuous points of contact between God and the world offered by most other theologies, process thought suggests that God is intimately a part of the world, and that the world is intimately a part of God.

Even if someone named Jesus with some sort of causal connection to the Jesus in the gospels existed, if you just blandly say that Jesus really existed, you sound like you are confirming the largely fictional being of the gospels rather than someone who stands oin some real but in many ways indirect, even tenuous relationship to this fictional character.

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.

In the best works, James tests the limits of perception and its tenuous connection to language without devolving into affectation or didacticism, which is rather remarkable in this jargon - riddled age.

Yet instead of delimiting territory, the sculptures appear tenuous and ornamental, alluding to the fact that they define a metaphorical space rather than an actual one.

Similarly, evidence of mistakes and earlier versions survive within the finished work, and rather than depicting «space» or specific «images», the resulting paintings emerge as tenuous, questioning, and ultimately poetic ciphers in and of themselves.

Rather than an illusory plane, it in such instances is the even more tenuous infinity of space surrounding each of these thin lines.

1) One could argue your statement is not «conclusively supported by the paleo - data» — one need only argue that C02 levels are a lagging result (rather than leading indicator) of temp change, and your 20,000 year ago glacial maximum as GHG evidence becomes tenuous at best.

Rather, the Tribunal is hinging the «make whole» principles on a superficial and tenuous factor — the hearing date.

Rather they struggle to hide from themselves and from each other the tenuous nature of their bonds; it is as though they fear that a simple dispute could become an uncontrollable attack on the relationship.