Word: tenuousness
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Although Cellucci is the current frontrunner, his lead is tenuous at best. In a poll taken two weeks by the Boston Herald and WCVB-TV, 48 percent of voters supported Cellucci, with 38 percent backing Harshbarger...
...asks us to forgive him. He speaks to the nation with tears in his eyes, admitting that he has caused pain to his family and to the American people. Yet at the same time, he sends his lawyers into both the legal and political arenas with an argument so tenuous and so precise in their hair-splitting that he draws criticism even from the Democratic leadership in Congress...
Forget cynicism, skittishness, veneration for the mechanism of impeachment or genuine forgiveness. The average American appreciates the president's laughable defense because, whether for wrongdoing or incompetence, the average American would be lost without his or her own recourse to often tenuous justifications, explanations and extenuations...
...found in the dictionary." Although Deane himself uses a sufficient number of twentyfive-cent words to be considered a "literary" author, for whatever that's worth, his style is as down-to-earth as any country boy's. His lovely prose reads effortlessly. Another writer would drown such a tenuous, fragile plot with the dense description Deane favors, but Deane makes observations like "a pulse passes up and down from my head to my toes as though someone had slashed me from behind" or "the armchairs on either side of the fire [were] now mute and emptied of all confidences...
...territory restlessness, quits his job and hops a steamer for New Orleans, hellbent to board the next boat for the Amazon's mouth. But no boats are headed there, then or later, so young Samuel Clemens is stuck with writing about the Mississippi. There is only the most tenuous and delightful of connections with another kid, in Defiance, Ohio, a century later. This fellow, named Tommy Thompson, is an inspired, perhaps even crazed, tinkerer. He conceives that used frying oil could power engines and rigs a car that actually burns the stuff. He's set for a run across...