Sentences with phrase «tenuous line»

Künstlerhaus Bethanien presents «Written in the Margins», a solo exhibition by the artist and writer Shubigi Rao, relying on wordplay and humour to explore the tenuous line between existence and extinction, be it human, cultural, species - specific or ideological.

These plunge the viewer into a world that oscillates between reality and fantasy, in which the tenuous line that separates them is not always distinguishable.

Internationally acclaimed Finnish filmmaker, photographer, and video artist Eija - Liisa Ahtila is known mainly for complex multi-screen narratives that reveal the fragile inner life of her protagonists, as well as the tenuous line separating fantasy from reality.

There is a tenuous line between reassurance and praise.

It makes me think of the sky as a hot - air balloon, tethered to the basket of earth by these tenuous lines.

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The efforts undertaken again and again over the past century to trace a line of continuity from the historical Jesus to Paul and from there to our church have been all too tenuous — more ingenious than convincing.

But it is also possible to trace the links, however tenuous, which join them all together in a fascinating line of succession.

Here the lines of distinction become tenuous, for while the words of Isaiah were familiar enough, there was no «suffering servant Messiah» in the expectation of the people.

Furthermore, when an economic system dominates the policies of a nation, as in the present clash between Communism and the democracies of the West, the line between economics and politics becomes tenuous and at points indistinguishable.

It does appear, however, that in this passage we can discern a thin line, however tenuous, which links the Canaanite Baal myth of the «dying - and - rising god» with the rise of resurrection as an eschatological symbol, soon destined to develop rapidly in Jewish thought.

The line between the sectaries and the new monastic preaching orders was always tenuous.

This one has the most tenuous Arsenal link in that the last line rings true.

Though Rosen's connection is tenuous to the Obama administration, Republicans used the line as a counter punch to the so - called «War on Women» as both parties vie for that voting bloc this year.

The last piece of the budget passed on a party - line vote, 32 to 28, with the Senate's tenuous Democratic majority holding together and no Republicans voting in favor of the measure.

The reliability of the technology remains «a bit tenuous,» Tucker said, adding that much more research, development and testing would be needed before cops could trust the weapons with lives on the line.

Jones» other source of hope, though tenuous, comes from a population of devils in the north - central part of the state, on the front lines of the cancer's steady westward march.

Sunlight has approximately a black - body spectrum that indicates its temperature is about 6,000 K (10,340 °F / 5,727 °C), interspersed with atomic absorption lines from the tenuous layers above the photosphere.

It's a playfully demented and dry evisceration of the tenuous hold that modern western civilization has on civility, walking a fine line between the best genre horror and the loftiest of intellectual indie cinema.

After seven years of examining the lines against which society coalesces when the world falls down, here's a film about the tenuous handshake that tenants of the new world order have with the re-gelling of society.

The fate of the negotiations, never certain, became even more tenuous after Rep. John Boehner (R - Ohio) announced his resignation as Speaker of the House, a sign of deepening fault lines within the Republican conference.

As a student at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Como experienced profound feelings of weight and presence while inspecting the tenuous graphite lines in an Agnes Martin painting.

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

I am sympathetic to Judge Straub's dissent but I can't agree that the facts are so tenuous as to fail reasonableness review, not in light of the position taken by the majority in the lines noted above.