Sentences with phrase «tenuous relationships»

Margot shifts through space - time as she grieves the loss of her grandfather, the heartbreak over a first love, and the tenuous relationships with her best friends, all while using quantum physics and scientific method to determine what triggers the wormholes and how to remain in real time.

Here, the antisocial killer forms tenuous relationships with a local priest (Paolo Bonacelli) and a comely prostitute (Violante Placido) while carrying out one last job for his mysterious, menacing handler (Johan Leysen).

When I think about the mechanics of running an organization, the delicacies of maintaining tenuous relationships, the banality of nurturing a bureaucracy, or the boredom of keeping an institution going, I just go NUTS!

Of course, this may create more tenuous relationships between SpaceX and its customers, which Dankberg acknowledged.

And believing that one's Lord is a liar makes for a very tenuous relationship.

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.

After a tenuous relationship on Twitter during the run - up to last year's presidential election, The Vatican confirmed yesterday that President Donald Trump will meet with Pope Francis on...

Ridley Scott's version of the Exodus story focuses on the tenuous relationship / rivalry between Moses (Christian Bale) and Ramses (Joel Edgerton).

This long but tenuous relationship came to a dramatic climax in November 1968 when the Brunners had an extended visit with the Barths.

But nearly all my contemporaries at school gave up on church, and I had a very tenuous relationship with it.

The White Man's Burden, in which the West is going to solve the problems of the Rest, has produced a huge world of interlocking and frequently self - serving bureaucracies that have only a tenuous relationship to helping poor people.

Part of me wondered if this encounter wasn't precisely the way God planned to shore up our tenuous relationship.

In this deeply introspective novel, Strout explores a writer's tenuous relationship with her mother, and on a deeper level about how we must inevitably wrestle with the histories of family and place that have formed us.

This is perfect for someone like me who has a tenuous relationship with eggs, but likes eating them for breakfast for their staying power.

Read more about the history of chiles in America, and their tenuous relationship with biodiversity and climate change in Chasing Chiles, available at Amazon.

This is a given with most coaching staffs, but it is often a tenuous relationship.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

The more tenuous the relationship with the mother, the more likely it is that the father will be depressed.

The tenuous relationship between Cuomo and DeBlasio is long - running and well - documented.

There were snickers throughout the room at his comment, as Borelli and Ballard are known to have a tenuous relationship, and they often butt heads in public.

Miner dismissed the idea that her tenuous relationship with the governor had anything to do with her removal.

The Daily News reported on Monday that Miner, who has had a testy and tenuous relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was striped of the post at the state Democratic Committee over the weekend.

Despite the tenuous relationship, we may be nearing a resolution, or at least the beginning of negotiations.

Giambra, of course, still has many local ties, but he has a tenuous relationship with the party.

He also worked for Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who had a tenuous relationship with Cuomo.

The first, pointed out by NBC's Matthew Berger, is the tenuous relationship between Senate Democrats and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I - Conn.).

Of the six percent only around half could find a link, further emphasising how tenuous the relationship is.

As he travels with the band members, Rapaport captures the story of how tenuous their relationship has become; how their personal

As he travels with the band members, Rapaport captures the story of how tenuous their relationship has become; how their personal differences and unresolved conflicts continue to be a threat to their creative cohesion.

The film ratchets up the tension tracking the rise and fall of a tenuous relationship, rarely offering respite.

His tenuous relationship with Lola feels one - sided from their first interaction, her requests already promising incompatible preferences between them.

In director Scott Cooper's new film, Depp takes on the infamy of Whitey Bulger, and the Boston legend's tenuous relationship with authorities.

There he will ultimately begin a tenuous relationship with Kirk and many other characters familiar to movie audiences worldwide.

And it also provides breathing room for some genuine emotion, as she contends with her tenuous relationship with her dad, her growing feelings for the decent dude (who we of course learn did not take advantage of having a pretty drunk girl in his bed), and the fact that this fateful day is also the birthday of her recently deceased mother.

Hand - built in Modena and bearing trademarked go - fast equipment from Ferrari, the Quattroporte Sport GT bends that tenuous relationship between performance and opulence.

Klaus smuggles out the pastor's letters, but tensions rise as Keppler establishes a tenuous relationship with Liddy's young brother, Willy.

Ultimately, this is a story that provokes a deeper understanding of the tenuous relationship between love, personal liberty and the common good.

The structure is actually quite similar to the mileage earning on Delta, which is funny since Delta and Alaska have a tenuous relationship.

This week's contributing author, Athena LaTocha, is an artist whose monumental works on paper explore the tenuous relationship between man - made and natural landscapes.

Inspired by geometric abstraction and working in a diverse array of materials — each situation determining the media — Caldas» work articulates the tenuous relationship between the architectural space and those who occupy it.

He wants to subvert the standards of judgment integral to our understanding of abstract painting, while being committed to the act of making... He is interested in — to use his own words — perversely cultivating the tenuous relationship between «creative seeing» and the randomness of nature without becoming explicit... By finding ways to foreground his conflicts about painting, while also expanding its definition, Burckhardt has become one of the most interesting artists of his generation.»

Inspired by obsessive Internet fan culture and the user experience of the web browser, Arcangel uses conventions of popular culture, be they video games, iconic musicians or fashion, to explore our shared reality and tenuous relationship with technology.

The breakdown and distortment of one's relfection is an eloquent metaphor and opens a provoking dialogue to the perhaps at times tenuous relationship in aerial cartography and photography between the categorization of the surfaces of objects and its true properties.

The Jewish Museum tries hard to overlook the gaps in her output and her tenuous relationship to Judaism.

Abstraction has a tenuous relationship with language.

Photography's tenuous relationship to truth and reality is a fitting metaphor for the illusory nature of property valuation that first propelled the ongoing recession.

How to micromanage the tenuous relationship between image and language?

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Savage Sentimentality will feature works by a group of artists who come from various backgrounds yet share a tenuous relationship with sentiment.

Athena LaTocha, born in Anchorage, Alaska, is an artist whose monumental works on paper explore the tenuous relationship between man - made and natural landscapes.