The horror of King Trent's unexplained absence was closing in on him, threatening to overwhelm his tenuous equilibrium.

But as prints, for their time, they stand alone, the artist maintaining a tenuous, chancy equilibrium through the balancing of blocky multicolored shapes.

The fabric, often supplemented by nails, ropes and cords, pulls in several directions at once, exerting pressure that threatens to disrupt the tenuous equilibrium.

He looked at the loose, sharp-edged gravel sloping against the wall in a tenuous equilibrium.

Government watchdogs, worried that it threatens the tenuous equilibrium of the health care system, are keeping an eye on trends.

This tenuous equilibrium was disturbed in the 1970's, beginning with the ascendancy of James (Jimmy) Coonan and Francis (Mickey) Featherstone, whose stories are this book's primary focus.

The tenuous mental equilibrium he has been able to maintain is threatened when a young man, healthy in mind and body, a doctoral candidate in psychology, becomes a roomer in the house.

It would be possible to claim that rather than an attempt to 'dominate over others', the "will to power" is better understood as the tenuous equilibrium in a system of forces' relations to each other.

"He adores me," she said, shaking herself back to a tenuous equilibrium.

At its center, organic forms appear to sprout from the pipes, further threatening the structure's tenuous equilibrium.