Word: tenuously
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...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...
...Molicre's great comedy, Jouvet acts with amazing precision, clarity, and style. His performance and those of the entire company are the results of a complete knowledge of the play, gained from years of experience. The outstanding characteristic of the entire production, which Jouvet directed, is its "style." This tenuous quality, perhaps roughly equivalent to "finesse," is evident in every movement on the stage and in every word...
Once the Court had conceded Congress the power to intervene in the affairs of local enterprises, Roberts asserted, it would not deny Congress jurisdiction in a case unless the connection to interstate commerce was shown to be extremely tenuous...
...altogether hilarious. In a generally good production, Lucile Watson is amusing as the ball's aristocratic wheelchaired hostess, Denholm Elliott smooth and agile as both twin brothers, and Oscar Karlweis suavely despondent as an unwilling millionaire. But Ring Round the Moon seems frequently garrulous and increasingly tenuous and a little too complacently impromptu. The whole effect is rather like finding a filmy handkerchief with a ravishing scent and searching in vain for its owner...