Sentences with phrase «tenuous grasp»

Over time, too, the Beaver morphs into a less benign, more manipulative alter ego, impinging on Walter's free will and already tenuous grasp on reality, and threatening to erase whatever newfound gains he's made.

As is the case with most Christians, you appear to have only the most tenuous grasp of what the bible actually says.

A word of warning: Sponge baths can cause your baby to squirm and fuss, weakening her already tenuous grasp on the solids, liquids, and gases in her body.

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.

Anderson gives the audience privileged access to Doc's periodically tenuous grasp on reality, showing him scribbling and erasing half baked queries and theories in his ubiquitous note pad as he undertakes his investigations.

And each group seems to have a somewhat tenuous grasp of what the other does.

I thought Diane was somewhat sympathetic bc while she was often a terrible and manipulative character, she had moments where you could see why she was the way she was - for instance, her love for jack overpowered her, and she was not able to deal with only tenuous grasp she had over him.

But it speaks simultaneously about its own anxiety about its own tenuous grasp on reality, and no less, power.

My already tenuous grasp of reality was rapidly weakening.

While their trippy misadventures with demons real and imagined test Toby's sanity, Javier's already tenuous grasp of reality dissolves altogether.

«From places like Geneva, there's a tenuous grasp on where the Yukon is in Canada, let alone where the Kaska is in the Yukon,» he says.

But most secular journalists have a tenuous grasp of what religious people actually believe.

Although fully committed to Christ, they have, generally speaking, a tenuous grasp of the Great Tradition or the way in which the Apostolic Faith has been passed down the generations and across the cultures.

I heard the lectures and conversations as an outsider (and non-native speaker with a tenuous grasp of German), and so familiar phrases struck me in unfamiliar ways.

What a lot of arm - chair fans seem to have a tenuous grasp on understanding is that Wenger and the coaching staff watch these players on a day to day basis, they see the ones who want to be the best, have that drive more than others and ultimately will do whatever is in their power to do best for the team.

EJ Manuel, who was selected with the 16th overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, entered the offseason with a tenuous grasp on the starting job.

Conley, a second - year wide receiver, got a tenuous grasp on the ball before getting swarmed by a fast - closing Davis.

Now it seems you have a tenuous grasp out what actually makes a «squad.»

«The Senate Republicans hold such a tenuous grasp on the majority that they are loathe to change the system that gets them elected,» said Bartoletti.

The name may have perpetuated a widespread misimpression that the disorder applies to people on the edge of psychosis, who have at best a tenuous grasp of reality.

Berger got in trouble with reporters for bringing up the inconvenient uncertainties — the gray matter, as it were — lying between the specialists» tenuous grasp of CTE and the prospects for diagnosing, treating and preventing it.

The closest thing I've played was Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, which also had a tenuous grasp on the series» core mechanics.

As this stress is compounded by Marcus» troubles at home, at school, and as it concerns his tenuous grasp on his understanding of the world, cracks in his character begin to form.

At its center is Malek as a sullen and haunted hacker with a tenuous grasp on reality.

This seems especially key to a license all about family cohesion, even if everybody might have a tenuous grasp on the use of their powers.

Not only are they trying to appeal to the hardcore crowd, but they have a tenuous grasp on how to sound cool in English, and also because it worked so well for Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball.

That particular form of display can be read as a symptom of photography's struggle with its tenuous grasp on its own materiality, which goes some way to explain why photo - based work, in the late 20th century and beyond, became the medium of choice for critical artistic practice.

If this case demonstrates anything, it is the tenuous grasp of reality that the supreme of courts has right now.