Relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width.
The quality of lacking intensity or substance.
1 The possibility of rare creation depends on rare material, on spirit-like tenuity .
2 By boldly diffusing in space a medium of the requisite tenuity and elasticity.
3 This curtain, of fairy-like tenuity , was transparent, and did not interrupt the view.
4 But the grounds on which this assertion is based are wonderful in their tenuity .
5 The bond between the States is of an amazing tenuity .
6 Air, in every degree of tenuity , refuses to act as a conductor of electricity.
7 The greater the tenuity the greater the creative results.
8 He can hold the attention longer than any poet of an equal tenuity of matter.
9 When taken in connection with its tenuity , these features show a highly developed potter's technique.
10 Faces of thin shadow, faces of gaseous tenuity .
11 The character of the elegy is gentleness and tenuity , but this stanza has been pronounced by Dryden.
12 STRAWBERRY.-Amongthe Greeks, the name of the strawberry indicated its tenuity , this fruit forming hardly a mouthful.
13 The irresistible logic of the brain stretched to an abnormal tenuity , and an intolerable brightness was with him.
14 The first thing that arrests our attention in these creatures is the extreme delicacy and tenuity of their substance.
15 If it were an object to rival the tenuity of the finest India muslin, machinery could easily accomplish it.
16 The tenuity of this veil is such that it admits of our seeing the stars through the auroral plates.
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