Rick Tumlinson

Our greatest theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, recently declared that humans have no more than a hundred years to get off this planet to ensure the survival of our species. And when someone such as he does so, it is with an understanding not just of the science, but of both our tenuous place and our possibility in the universe.

American Businessman

Olivier Theyskens

I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.

Belgian Designer

Peter Jackson

Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off.

New Zealander Director

Jack Falahee

I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

American Actor

Janna Levin

I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do.

American Scientist

Howard Gardner

If you understand something well, you can represent it, describe it, embody it in several ways. Indeed, if you can only present it in one way, then your own mastery is likely to be tenuous.

American Psychologist

Joan Didion

Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.

American Author

Adora Svitak

As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

Cornelia Parker

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.

English Artist

Larry David

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

The word 'tenuous' can imply subjectivity, suggesting someone's personal view on the stability or certainty of something.

Subjective Interpretation

Use 'tenuous' to emphasize doubt or to suggest that something is barely holding together and likely to collapse or fail.

Emphasizing Uncertainty

'Tenuous' often points to an underlying weakness or fragility in an argument, relationship, or situation.

Underlying Weakness

When describing objects, 'tenuous' signifies something is literally thin, fine, or delicate to the touch.

Literal Thinness

'Tenuous' can imply that something physical is fragile and requires careful handling or treatment.

Fragile Construction

While it can refer to physical objects, 'tenuous' can also be applied metaphorically to describe non-physical concepts.

Metaphorical Application

 in the history of their wrongful conviction. The scene of arrest, the scene of misidentification, the alibi location. And here, the scene of the crime, it's this place to which he's never been, but changed his life forever. So photographing there, I was hoping to highlight the tenuous relationship between truth and fiction,

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 Now there are six cables and more coming, three down each coast. Because once a country gets plugged in by one cable, they realize that it's not enough. If they're going to build an industry around it, they need to know that their connection isn't tenuous but permanent, because if a cable breaks,

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 by undergoing seven years of military training and remaining unmarried. In practice, some are part-timers, holding more closely to their own traditions, and maintaining families in nearby villages, outside Cossack lands. Thankfully, the tenuous peace is not broken before they reach the Sich—

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 So for the last few years, I've been trying to understand what constitutes the 21st-century good life, both because I'm fascinated by the moral and philosophical implications, but also because I'm in desperate need of answers myself. We live in tenuous times.

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 a photograph that some astronauts took. And this tenuous veneer around our planet is what allows life to flourish. It protects our planet from too many impacts, from meteorites and the like. And it's such an amazing phenomenon

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 because we're trying to keep protecting the law, because it's in a tenuous position always, so we really are concerned, and we do a lot of research. That's very important to us. And I want to hear from people.

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 Next, I would check on the status of their collaboration. Are they working well together? Getting along? In this case, it turned out to be a tenuous relationship. So, what to do?

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 Number Did you know that 70 percent of the people in the world who have land have a tenuous title to it? So, you've got a little farm in Honduras, some dictator comes to power,

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 And on top of all off these rules, they keep changing. We don't know what's going on half the time, so it puts us in a very tenuous position.

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 shifts its position the trackers can see the situation is tenuous a sudden jury and this angry bear could be on them in the blink of an eye

Tenuous

Subjective Interpretation

Emphasizing Uncertainty

Underlying Weakness

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