The use of sea imagery helps to convey the speaker's sense of relative freedom, as well as the tenuousness of this freedom.
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Tenuousness
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6 entriesdegree of tenuousnessinherent tenuousnesstenuous connectiontenuous linktenuousness of claimtenuousness of evidence
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The ctenophores are by no means aberrant jellyfish, which they resemble only in the extreme tenuousness of their bodies. They have no umbrellas and no stinging cells.
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