Word: tenuousness
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...once proud democracy of the Commonwealth is facing a very real danger: no tenuous theory of possible powers is involved, but the actual undermining of the New England tradition of individual and local liberty. The Association of Selectmen has marked the need of resistance; their protest must remain impotent until the voters overcome post-campaign lethargy and give sinews to such opposition...
...Three Season" by Mr. Parker is a prolonged lyric in decasyllabic rymed double quatrains, which, in spite of its occasional cliches and vaguely tenuous theme, is well sustained and successful...
...family likes to think that one of it's children will, some day, become a violinist, a poet or a painter. But if a child grows up and thinks himself a genius when he is really an ineffectual, then there is a fly in the cream pitcher, a tenuous tragedy. Put the ineffectual (Theo Bissaker) on a fruit farm in Verdriet, South Africa, make him physically unable to labor, give him a stupid wife whom he married as a sympathetic gesture and grew to despise-and the cream has indeed been polluted. Theo Bissaker stakes everything on his painting...
...should please readers of Shaw's Back to Methuselah. The volume is not without a certain philosophic realism. Anthropomorphic deities grow ponderously chatty over the direction of human destinies. Nonetheless Author Sheehan, after working for years, has produced a novel which treats of gods and men with such tenuous charm that one is almost sure the writer must have drowsed in Paradise...
...audience to appreciate the profound, wholesome and unfamiliar fact that Maya, for every man and for a moment, appears as the incarnation of his desires, that the face of this prostitute glitters, in the cracked mirror of each customer's longing, as the image of an ideal. This tenuous truth does not make for dramatic continuity; the play Maya stretches it against a background of homely and revelatory incidents in the life of its heroine-the death of her child, the visits of her comrades in vice, the rapid entrances and exits of her customers...