Serious Sam is like surfing or snowboarding: you're always riding the line, maintaining that tenuous balance between control and chaos.

Jenette and Tesla watched nervously, hoping the tenuous balance would hold.

And what would such conflict do to the tenuous balance in Tethyr?

Perfection, on the other hand, is a tenuous and fleeting balance.

Both sides have otherwise maintained a tenuous balance of power concerning their involvement in outside conflicts.

Justice must be seen to have been done without upsetting the tenuous balance of current politics.

During this period the tenuous balance between the northern and southern Senators required such short-term appointments.

In the end it misses that tenuous balance that made Orwell's work so enduring.

At any level, golfing success requires an often tenuous balance of ego and humility.

"It's a very tenuous balance," he said, adding that the resolution, if passed, would upset it.