Sentence examples for a dangerous exercise from inspiring English sources

But it was a dangerous exercise to argue a point with him.

Officials on the left and the right deemed it a dangerous exercise in voyeurism, while others lauded it as an inevitable, democratic step.

In an age when the "real" person is more important than the political persona, finding out what our leaders really, sincerely, think is necessarily an obsession, and politics becomes a dangerous exercise in hypocrisy-hunting.

How can we reward the same people who screwed up in the first place?" Indeed, if to many on Wall Street the spectacle of their best and brightest reduced to submitting payroll permission slips to government bureaucrats was a dangerous exercise in populist pandering, to almost everyone else it was an overdue reckoning.

Pressing a barbell overhead has somehow acquired the reputation as a dangerous exercise for the shoulders.

Asking someone about faith can be a dangerous exercise because, for one thing, they might actually tell you something (whether you actually wanted to hear a response or not).

Thinking of the market as a linear progression is a very dangerous exercise.

In The Stanford Prison Experiment he is one of a number of duped college students undergoing a potentially dangerous exercise in depersonalisation.

"The desert is a difficult, dangerous exercise to get through," Mr. Harper said.

Carl Bildt of Sweden, a former envoy to the Balkans for the European Union and United Nations, called the Bush administration decision "a very dangerous exercise in diplomatic brinkmanship with possible consequences that no one is fully aware of".

This is a potentially dangerous exercise.