tenuously

Amid the thriving greenery of an indie plant shop called Dig, two living organisms are only tenuously clinging to survival.

“These are folks who have multiple homes to their names, and the tenants are clinging tenuously to their only home,” he said.

Even before the Great Stink of 1858, three separate cholera outbreaks had already been tenuously linked to the river by public health authorities.

But song and story are only tenuously tethered.

All those come together in the finale of the enormous Fourth, a layered collage of tunes and textures that, under Dudamel’s baton, feels as unsettled and tenuously harmonious as America itself.