| Bloom is an archetype of the modern protagonist, marginal, in a sense deracinated, tenuously connected to his culture. |
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| Only the deeper contrast of the figure differentiates it from the vegetation and tenuously relegates the forest to a safe atmospheric distance. |
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| The presence of live actors and real objects anchors you, albeit tenuously, in the world. |
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| The head stock was badly worn, which meant the forks carrying the front wheel were tenuously attached to the bikes frame. |
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| I have to admit that his being married, even as tenuously as Jason was, was kind of a turn-on. |
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| Her technique hinges on the unarticulated and the tenuously suggestive, even the subliminal. |
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| It clings tenuously to the stony mountainside in a thin line of hairpins before dropping out of sight. |
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| It tells six stories, tenuously linked, that are at times heartbreaking, but still laugh out loud funny. |
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| This painting has both a landscape and figural feel, as a faint green underpainting pokes tenuously through a peach-colored second ground that has the tactility of flesh. |
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| Nirvana was able to seek refuge in two camps, with one foot tenuously dipped in the waters of grunge, and one grimy boot firmly set in the world of punk rock. |
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| After all, Somaliland in the north has already broken away and Puntland, in the north-east, is tenuously connected to the rump of Somalia. |
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| Seen this way, much of JDS's and SDL's amazing growth has been a bull-market phenomenon only tenuously linked to user demand. |
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| The complex side of the system is the fact that all these institutions are autonomous, tenuously bound together like grains of sand. |
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| For the nation the influence of the soul is always present, though at times tenuously. |
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| Some animal welfare groups launch campaigns to terrorise those connected, sometimes only tenuously, to experiments on live animals. |
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| Already in the month of September, the Easter bunnies, changed into Santa Claus bunnies, smiled tenuously from the supermarket shelves. |
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| The brass-knuckles crowd believes that virtually any image or tenuously defensible statement is fair game in the street brawl of contemporary politics. |
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| Universities, having once led the way on the content and standards of public discussion, even if only tenuously and intermittently, now simply follow them. |
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| Some of these accounts were based on fact, some on a mix of fact and fiction, some only tenuously connected to the truth. |
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| Such places are plonked, incongruously, in the middle of India, connected only tenuously with the surrounding confusion and poverty. |
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| The suspension bridge spanned the canyon as tenuously as one could imagine. |
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| Rating high in a particular needs area is often tenuously repackaged as a causal factor and thus treated as such through case management planning. |
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| Coutinho has been tenuously linked with a future move to Barcelona, but Lucio believes that Anfield is the best place for him. |
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| So once again, we're faced with a situation in which a study that tenuously claims a negative effect of playing video games is vastly overhyped, both in the press release and the subsequent media coverage. |
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| If current proposals are followed, the Senate would be only tenuously accountable to voters, with members elected from giant constituencies for 15-year terms by a variant of proportional representation. |
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| Furthermore, the claim to privilege itself was only tenuously connected to the main justification of privilege based on allowing members to speak freely in order to deliberate, legislate, and hold the government to account. |
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| We are tenuously linking this incident with the male who presented at hospital. |
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| But most of the night was given over to a string of celebrities and other notables, some of whom seemed only tenuously connected to Qualcomm. |
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| As such, the clampdown on anyone even tenuously suspected of being connected to the uprising has grown bolder and bolder with each passing day. |
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| It's an issue which is too important to be party political but the chasm did start appearing the last time the Tories were tenuously in control. |
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| Discrimination comes in a variety of forms and it is expressed in a multitude of behaviours-sometimes extremely tenuously, but systematic none the less. |
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| Indeed, if these funds were to become fully transparent, there would be a risk of invalidating manager skills, which in fact underpin the production of returns that are only tenuously linked with the market. |
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| The consumer confidence index continued to fall on this bad news, even though inflation decelerated in October and the housing market began to stabilise, albeit tenuously and in relative terms. |
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| One of the funniest things about celebrity scandals are always the random people tenuously linked to the star in question who helpfully pop up to offer their insight. |
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| The discs dynamics and structure in turn depend critically on the influence of magnetic fields that couple to tenuously ionised and low-density regions. |
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| In 1867, the same year as Canadian Confederation, Britain declined to purchase for Canada the Alaska territory that was to that point tenuously held by Russia. |
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