Word: tenuousness
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...said his evidence was "far from tenuous,"although he conceded that the link is, at thispoint, merely a hypothesis...
...novel, the first-person narrative unifies present and past and a multiplicity of minor incidents associated only through the consciousness of the butler. In the film, the narrator ha been removed, and only tenuous narrative coherence remains; the attempts made to integrate the various episodes into the film are sometimes rather artificial. On occasion, when a scene from the past is introduced, an image appears in the center of the screen, and gradually assumes the foreground, almost emerging from behind the prior picture; at other times, a voice-over of a letter written either from Mr. Stevens to Miss Kenton...
...maybe the same isn't true for Nick. I've stayed up all night worrying about his tenuous mental condition, and I don't see any easy answers in sight. He's caught in a horrendous double-bind, just the sort of thing that leads to schizophrenia and full-scale psychotic breakdowns. And now, somehow, I feel that all this is my fault...
...duty and honor; the conflicts and intrigues among the boyars, who are fearful of the new tsar's control; Ivan's relationship with his friend Kurbsky, who secretly harbors resentments for his number two status; and Ivan's early sickness, which makes everyone in the court wonder about the tenuous future of the Russian state. Part I ends with the death of Anastasia, a turning point for Ivan, who loses the only person in his court that he can trust, making him feel more menaced and thus determined to make his regime more hard-line than ever...
Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld raised his 1996 presidential stock by proposing to cut state taxes as relief from the Clinton tax increases. And Ted Kennedy strengthened his often-tenuous hold on his job by raising enough money to scare Weld out of running for Senate next year...