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- Then Yossarian had McWatt climb and keep climbing higher and higher until they tore free finally into a calm, diamond-blue sky that was sunny and pure everywhere and laced in the distance with long white veils of tenuous fluff.†
Chpt 15 *
- The chaplain's voice floated up to him through the distance tenuously in an unintelligible, almost inaudible monotone, like a gaseous murmur.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(tenuous) weak, flimsy, or uncertain
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) something is thin in consistency or diameter