Sentences with phrase «tenuous connections»

The witchhunt over tenuous connections to fossil fuel funding wants to do a lot more than just silence a few people.

Their work, in which observation and documentation of a place is fundamental, focuses on New York City in this exhibition and the tenuous connections and entanglements they discovered during their research.

However tenuous the connections may be, the fact is that Gorky's art continues to have remarkable resonance.

By zeroing in on a small subset of artistic production (mainly created by artists with tenuous connections to Brooklyn at best), «Crossing Brooklyn» accomplished just the opposite of displaying the borough's «rich creative diversity.»

The understory, a seven - channel installation projected in the round, explores interstitial moments, overlooked details, and tenuous connections that investigate the indifference of nature and one's relationship to our changing environment.

Mark Amerika's artworks move beyond the idea of conceptual collages to present a vision of the world that is made of undecipherable constructions, contradictions, multiplicities and vagueness: a world of tenuous connections that, by impeding a clear vision, leads the viewers into abuse and exploitation.

She works with mixed media and organic materials such as cloth, fibers, and beeswax, creating multiple forms that are joined with crude hardware or mechanical devices in ways that imply tenuous connections and aberrations.

I know that these fears have, at best, tenuous connections to reality.

As another commenter mentioned, the biggest issue for authors with the new Amazon crackdown is that they are sniffing out the most tenuous connections and declaring them unacceptable.

Regimented, responsible, strong - willed Delphine narrates in an unforgettable voice, but each of the sisters emerges as a distinct, memorable character, whose hard - won, tenuous connections with their mother build to an aching, triumphant conclusion.

These tenuous connections, however, solidify when Graciela enters their lives.

There have now been a few successful lawsuits brought to challenge various versions of these tests, with rulings centering on tenuous connections between the skills being tested and those necessary to do the job.120 To address some of these underlying concerns, the TeachNY Advisory Council, supported by a grant from the New York State Department of Education, drafted policy recommendations in May 2016 around teacher preparation recruitment, selection, and cultural competence in the hopes of finding ways to improve teacher quality and diversity.121

The silver screen X-Men mythos has become a convoluted mess of timelines, narratives, and tenuous connections, and that is why Logan is not going to focus on them.

One of the most beloved films of the nineties, Wong Kar - wai's Chungking Express captures the whiplash rhythms and tenuous connections of urban life through two divergent storylines, each centered on a heartsick cop and a mysterious woman with whom he becomes romantically entangled.

Framed by a conversation between two co-workers in a mysterious outpost, «White Christmas» strings together three flashbacks with seemingly tenuous connections.

Radical theology had only tenuous connections with secular theology, which was primarily a reformist species of the classical biblical theology of creation.

Economic growth in Alberta remains positive, even when one accounts for every conceivable indirect outside force on the price of Canadian oil, no matter how tenuous the connection is: potential new Iranian supply, single - industry OPEC nations being forced to reduce output, Greece leaving the Eurozone, Donald Trump surging in the polls, Tom Brady facing suspension, etc..

Acceptable religion to them is religion that is non-God-centered and has only a tenuous connection at best with the supernatural.

This movie might be dissed as shamelessly sentimental psychobabble with a tenuous connection to reality.

Factors such as trade routes, the order of military encampment, property divisions, farming practices, building practices, economics and technology, and social stratification» not to mention a vast array of ritual processions and gatherings that might have only a tenuous connection to the type of conscious and coherent cosmology that Msgr. Mannion presupposes to have existed in these cultures» all coexisted with whichever form of religious devotion was particular to a given place and people.

Another deluded» war on Christianity» poster — why do modern faux Christians leap at every opportunity, no matter how tenuous the connection,.

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.

The resulting bond is relatively weak, creating what Zwierlein calls a «fluffy» molecule that still vibrates quite a bit, as each atom is bonded over a long, tenuous connection.

Even scientists have grown bored with question of habitat loss, tweaking their grant proposals to emphasize the climate angle no matter how tenuous the connection.

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).

The «real» events get refracted endlessly through millions of breathless watchers» experiences and start to take on meanings that have only a tenuous connection to the truth, whatever that may be.

There's still a tenuous connection to a sense - making plot (but only realistically if you watched Season 1).

The further back one goes, the more tenuous the connection between Cannes and the Oscars becomes — the 2011 winner, Asghar Farhadi ’s

The further back one goes, the more tenuous the connection between Cannes and the Oscars becomes — the 2011 winner, Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, premiered at the Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran, before screening in Competition at Berlin, where it won the Golden Bear.

As Winfrey's Mrs. Which monotonously spells out the motivations of the evil «IT,» a malicious intergalactic being responsible for all of the suffering in the world, only its tenuous connection to Meg's home life resonates.

The whole thing looks and feels like an extended episode of some Starz series, and you almost get the sense that first - time feature film director Aleksander Bach is attempting to ape the Resident Evil movies, another franchise with bad writing, silly action and only the most tenuous connection to the video games that inspired it.

Maybe I can make a tenuous connection between other recent visionary films, like Memento and Being John Malkovich, that are also at once fascinating and mind - boggling.

This is noteworthy because so many parents have a tenuous connection to their child's school once they reach middle school and high school.

This question immediately creates a problem in that there is no consensus on what is meant by student achievement (see Kohn, 2001), which makes the determination of the effect of computer technologies upon this variable a tenuous connection at best.

One of the only overt visual links to taller F - Pace are XF Sportbrake's curved taillamps, and the tenuous connection is not a bad thing.

The Shin Megami Tensei franchise is very broad and encompasses many spin - offs that have only a tenuous connection to the main series.

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.

She similarly moves fluidly between moods and color palettes, so that each painting seems distinct and still retains a tenuous connection to her larger body of work.

While beautifully showing the longing and absence of modern romance, this work, like several others in White Matter (s), expresses only a tenuous connection to the exhibition's theme.

Besides that about 50 % of US adults are against expensive carbon mitigation schemes and while only a vanishingly small number give a fig about any tenuous connection between Autism and infant vaccinations for childhood diseases.

A tenuous connection from forty years ago of a known climate skeptic with the tobacco industry is enough for some people to reject anything he has to say about the «climate»;

Even scientists have grown bored with question of habitat loss, tweaking their grant proposals to emphasize the climate angle no matter how tenuous the connection.

At its best, this is a very thorough examination of competing policy considerations, e.g. the majority and dissent Supreme Court judgements in Harvard Mouse, the interpretation of which had only the most tenuous connection to legal issue in play (is a genetically modified organism a «composition of matter» under the Patent Act?).

The somewhat tenuous connection to law — and thus to Slaw — lies in the fact that a number of the University's advisors are lawyers: Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law... [more]

Even so there's a tenuous connection with our regular programming, having to do with copyright law and Dolores Claman's problems with the CBC (or vice versa).

The Court concluded that the Defendant's offer ought reasonably to have been accepted, given the tenuous connection between the Plaintiff's injuries, and the alleged financial losses.

You might be forgiven for thinking that international litigants have open access to the UK courts, irrespective of how tenuous the connection might be between the circumstances of their case and this jurisdiction.

VE Holding meant that companies that sold products nationwide can be sued in any federal court in the country on charges of patent infringement, regardless of how tenuous the connection to that court.

Not exact matches

The connection between most shareholders and the company is indeed pretty tenuous.

It is also a link between the Interior and the Lower Mainland, a connection that many here feel is tenuous.