Word: tenuousness
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...Binny, collects abused books for tantalizing revelations about the previous owner. "This is the section with pages torn out," he says of his collection. "These are crammed full of exam notes." She, Debby, runs a used clothing store. Smitten and desperate Binny finds Debby again and they begin a tenuous relationship. Watson has given us two very convincing male wankers in "Breakfast After Noon" and "Slow News Day," but this time it's the snobbish and secretive Debby who provides the friction. "Binny's not boyfriend material," declares the two-timing Debs. Typical of Watson's style, Binny...
...College wouldn’t even think to bat an eye. Students are presumably meant to develop relationships with these academic advisors and general welfare guardians. But how can these relationships ever become personal or intimate ones when the nature of it is so frail and tenuous...
...curious twist, the restaurant has managed to maintain a tenuous connection to the Pudding—its future home once housed the Pi Eta social and theatrical group, the now-defunct rival of the Hasty Pudding...
...somewhere besides the morning indicators and economists' forecast books - namely, corporate America's bottom line. Only when profits start to return to earnings statements will investors declare the recovery arrived and rally accordingly. But higher production, shipping and other energy-related costs - particularly when consumer demand is as tenuous as it is - aren't anyone's recipe for getting back into the black...
...tenuous connection between Popeye and the arias, and it did seem a little silly, but it was also kind of cute,” says McCarty, “I’ve never been much of a visual artist, but I like old cartoons, and they’re part of our popular heritage...