His works tenuously survive in the minds of a few scholars. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a tenuous argument. ,He holds a rather tenuous position in history. ,He gave a rather tenuous account of his past life. From Dictionary.com.
He looked tenuously tethered and extremely dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air] Reference
Nostalgia only works when it's tenuously out of reach. From Wordnik.com. [mighty pleasin', pappy's corn squeezin'] Reference
The sky is tenuously holding itself between day and night. From Wordnik.com. [Ways in Which Looks Deceive] Reference
Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan are already tenuously linked to the. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Wood rot showed where the rear porch hung tenuously to the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Clean Kill]
But some of UPMC's expenses are only tenuously related to medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Nonprofit Hospitals, Once] Reference
In the early stages of the campaign they leaned tenuously to McCain. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Racial Balancing Act] Reference
A United Nations-brokered ceasefire is tenuously holding in the region. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Although tenuously so because of the debt and economic situation there. From Wordnik.com. [The Democratic Imperative: Exporting the American Revolution] Reference
But the placement office is only tenuously related to academic freedom. From Wordnik.com. [Geoffrey R. Stone: The Solomon Amendment] Reference
The Nassau County Democratic Legislature is held tenuously by one vote. From Wordnik.com. [B.D. Gallof: Watch Long Island For the New Right Wing Groundswell] Reference
DDT has only tenuously, and unconvincingly, been linked to cancer in humans. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Dorchen: Astroturf and DDT = Libertarian Lobotomy] Reference
Their egos, carefully and tenuously taped together, become targets for punishment. From Wordnik.com. [You Are In Control--Scary, Right?] Reference
Obama, tenuously linked to people who did bad things in the 60s when he was eight. From Wordnik.com. [Palin Supporter To Black Sound Man: "Sit Down, Boy"] Reference
But other vague situations remain, with closers holding on tenuously to their jobs. From Wordnik.com. [How Do You Spell Bad Relief?] Reference
Liberia, although much more tenuously and much more recently has ended its conflict. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Africa Scholars] Reference
The pious are just as pious; it's the more tenuously connected that seem to be fleeing. From Wordnik.com. [Christian America's "Fall" and the State of U.S. Piety] Reference
A few anecdotes, obviously based quite tenuously upon hearsay, will suffice to illustrate. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography] Reference
Today, it is only tenuously connected to the Niger Basin by the Mayo-Kebbi drainage system. From Wordnik.com. [Lake Chad flooded savanna] Reference
In other words, success means that, however tenuously, Afghanistan is ours for years to come. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Engelhardt: The Petraeus Syndrome] Reference
Meanwhile, its "raging success" tenuously dangles on Chertoff's misleading "metrics of success.". From Wordnik.com. [Angela Kelley: Symbolic Politics and U.S. Border Enforcement] Reference
The mansion loomed above him, floating almost, only tenuously connected with the world beneath it. From Wordnik.com. [One False Move]
After all, right now, the balance of power in the Senate is tenuously in the Democratic Party's control. From Wordnik.com. [The fight for Progressive Talk on the nation's airwaves] Reference
Machiavelli has remained — although remotely and tenuously — tied to the concerns of the present day. From Wordnik.com. [MACHIAVELLISM] Reference
Suddenly Irene was failing, her support gone, while Dor dangled tenuously from his vine, his grip slipping. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
It held together, tenuously at best, for over seven decades but not actually until Appomattox "at bayonet point.". From Wordnik.com. [America and Venezuela - Constitutional Worlds Apart] Reference
If nothing else, knowing the time (Pacific, Central, and Eastern) kept him, however tenuously, in touch with home. From Wordnik.com. [Lost And Found]
Should I return the external. keyboard he bought to go with it (it sits on its perch tenuously) and get a Bluetooth?. From Wordnik.com. [iPhone 4 Press Conference, More -- Personal Tech Live with Rob Pegoraro] Reference
Nicholas was on his way to Tomkin's room when the call came through, that fragile line connecting them so tenuously. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
They'll chalk up the evidence and figure they've got a conspiracy that tenuously succeeded and unraveled at the last second. From Wordnik.com. [American Tabloid]
To be united within the Purpose was very different from being tenuously tied together by feeble treaties and imperfect alliances. From Wordnik.com. [A Call to Arms]
Even the year's most energetic exercise in the fanciful, D. Keith Mano's Take Five, was tenuously grounded (and largely ignored). From Wordnik.com. [Variety Shows] Reference
It filled the room, resounding through her body, ripping through the last gossamer threads that had attached her so tenuously to sanity. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
All we had on Cakebread was a collection of tenuously linked crimes, where some of the connections were thinner than boarding house Spam. From Wordnik.com. [Some by Fire]
More than two months after a powerful earthquake hit South Asia, winter is closing in and many survivors are still living very tenuously. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2005] Reference
For a time, the creation of this so-called all-volunteer force, only tenuously linked to American society, appeared to be a master stroke. From Wordnik.com. [Endless war, a recipe for four-star arrogance] Reference
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