Word: tenuously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...character relationships and the development of Miss Hellman's philosophy through them take up the better part of the play's two and a half hours; one leaves the theatre with a distinct grasp of five or six rather extraordinary personalities and a vague impression that some sort of tenuous plot has been woven around them...
...five of his fellow artists and allowed each of them to dream up a separate sequence for the movie. Max Ernst, Fernand Leger, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Alexander Calder each contributed an idea. Then Richter strung them all together with what--if logic be considered--is the most tenuous of threads. But, logic be damned, say the surrealists. And, in watching the movie, you are apt to accept their premise...
Last year the Student Council drew up a petition to change the eight o'clock weekend curfew and placed it before the board of Housemasters, who promptly tabled the issue. They gave the tenuous draft situation as their excuse. If many upperclassmen left college freshmen might have to fill the vacant spaces in the Houses making liberal room permissions unwise. But few men entered the armed forces over the summer, and there is no longer any basis for using the crisis situation as a bogeyman to block a change in the rules...
...South" by Milenko Blanc shows equally polished craftsmanship, though again the structure is tenuous. A traveller, middle-aged at 32, stops in New Orleans, where he finds himself undefineably drawn to a night-club dancer. His gradual realization of her perversity is roughly the point of the story; but it is so subtly prepared that some many miss it entirely. The effect derives from expert restraint and ambiguity, qualities that are apparent especially after a second reading...
...satire and as Dodgson's escape, in the guise of Lewis Carroll, from the repressions of his era and personality, Producer Bunin plays hob with the facts to picture the children's tale as a virtual allegory of the author's difficulties. To point up a tenuous parallel, he not only rigs the prologue but also changes such characters as the King of Hearts and the White Rabbit, who becomes a comic villain...