tenability

Example Sentences

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“The Carmichael Show” owes its title, its format and its tenability as mainstream sitcom to “The Cosby Show,” and the episode is completely aware of it.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2016

For months we’ve had fun doubting the tenability of Gallery Girl’s premise.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2012

But that answer is losing its political tenability, says John D. Donahue of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2012

He was fully conscious, however, of the difficult nature of the position, and that it was only tenable on condition of being penetrated, or possessed, as he said, with the idea of its tenability.

From Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin by James, Eighth Earl of Elgin

His whole game is to capture as many of his audience as he can by strategy, to checkmate them by any legitimate theatrical move, regardless of tenability of subject, and in despite of truth.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: in Mizzoura by Thomas, Augustus