Word: tenuousness
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...student-athletes, the mourners understood the intrinsic value of a team. They knew the bonds formed by shared struggle and pain, strengthened in losses and celebrated in victories. They knew the tenuous thrill of relying upon someone else to be fierce in competition and supportive in practice. They had learned, together, how unforgiving the world can be in competition and defeat. They were all members of a team, and at that vigil, in remembrance of their brethren, they were all teammates...
...this tragedy arises reinvigorated notions of liberal democracy and freedom. America’s great beauty and strength lies in its multicolorful populace, a strength that is fueled by diversity. An assault of this magnitude has the potential to rupture what we perceive as already tenuous bonds between us. We must turn the lens inward and seize the opportunity to re-define and reflect on what it means to be American...
...actual call that he was in the hot seat came on Sunday morning, Blackbourn says. I had a watch sitting by me to monitor time when they called, but time ended up not being a factor. Blackbourn did take longer than he might have under less tenuous circumstances, though, saying that there really is pressure to stretch time with lots of Are you certain?-type questions. Blackbourn also says its much different trying to answer a question on the phone versus jus watching the television. When you watch it, you see the choices A, B, C, D on the screen...
Conversely again, China's tenuous protest-music movement has focused on Western-influenced rock, which the government first banned (as a bourgeois and immoral influence), then in the late '80s grudgingly opened up to (as a talisman of capitalism), with heavy censor oversight. Just as China has spent the past decade trying to prove that communist capitalism is no contradiction in terms, so is it trying to show that defanged rock music can be the totalitarian capitalist's pal. (Take the danger out of rock and what do you have, if not a Britney Spears Pepsi commercial?) Arguably...
...what may be an all-time high, precisely because of a perception that the U.S. is unconditionally supporting Israel in its battle with the Palestinians. On Arab streets, the rage stoked by the intifada has put tremendous pressure on Arab governments traditionally allied with the U.S., weakening their already tenuous domestic political standing in the face of a mounting challenge from radical Islamists. It has become virtually impossible for those governments to support Washington's campaign to maintain pressure on Iraq, for example...