Sentences with phrase «tenuous balance»

There's a murky, tenuous balance between reality and fiction... particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune, and suicide.

Nevertheless, everything we love about Twain is here, especially that tenuous balance between cynicism and a genuine wonder at how beautiful the world can be anyway.

These words are all about life and justice; their shared importance is part of that tenuous balancing between left and right» both sides of which Christ embraced, equally, upon the cross.

There is no true good and evil, no good and bad, only a tenuous balance.

The seats in parliament he controls (a court ruling prevents him from running for elected office), will weigh heavily in the tenuous balancing of conflicting interests of a coalition government.

There is also a tenuous balance in the state Senate, where Republicans hold a bare majority with support from Brooklyn Democratic state Sen. Simcha Felder, who conferences with the Republicans.

Senate Republicans plan to push hard to keep the 52nd Senate district in GOP hands — a district that favors them in enrollment, but could nevertheless alter the tenuous balance of power in the chamber.

But with the war over, the village's tenuous balance is thrown into upheaval by the arrival of two unidentified Orthodox Jews carrying a pair of mysterious crates.

It is vital for Goodman to strike a tenuous balance between outwardly sinister and perhaps a bit misunderstood, a man who heartily and often violently protects his very particular way of life, a survivalist proven right by an apocalyptic event of vague description, but beneath it all there is a sense that he cares for Michelle, though the extent to how and why remains murky.

It is a small death, a lonely death — but it is enough to disturb the tenuous balance of Gabe's life.

Each work investigates the tenuous balance between humans and nature through the perceived abundance of natural resources declining at the hand of human kind or the impact of daily conveniences on nature.

Since 2010, he has worked on kinetic sculpture that reflects the tenuous balance between the chaos and the structure imposed by corrupt politics and unstable economies — the urban geometry of social order.

She explains: I seek vibrancy and want the onlooker to be drawn into the paintings to observe works that are not just pleasing to the eye but have a sense of mystery, depth, energy and display a tenuous balance of all that goes into a successful work of art.

The tenuous balance between high and low is highly dependent on the source material, however.