In "Global Warming," although she borrows heavily and openly from Homer's "The Odyssey," much of her own recent struggle is on display too: There's a journey from a state of peace to a state of precariousness and insecurity, a giant that has its eye poked out, a house no one can live in, a mother who is suddenly gone.
There was a riveting precariousness to the equilibrium of some dishes.
Jane Bustin and Paul Keir, working directly upon the walls and across the gallery floors, conjure colour fields whose pleasantries are offset with a compositional precariousness.
You could see a certain precariousness in the early pictures for which she modelled herself, Propped, Prop, Untitled - the naked fat body perched on a stool, the fat itself a narrative of imbalance.
It's almost like a cultivated precariousness.
Mr. Yang's film suggests a kind of precariousness to ordinary life, a sense that barbarism is never far away.
She tells me it's a combination of a feeling of precariousness about her status since the election, along with fears of getting trolled online if she uses her real name.
The film, the latest wonderment from the Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien, takes as one of its inspirations Albert Lamorisse's 1956 classic, "The Red Balloon," about a young boy and the talismanic sphere that follows him through the gray streets of Paris like a dog, a lover, a ghost — as much a reminder of the precariousness of life as an emblem of innocence.
Tolerance may have left less of a cultural mark than intolerance: the historian Joel L. Kraemer has suggested that in Andalusia, a sense of precariousness inspired mysticism, esoteric teachings and a "prudent dissimulation" before Islamic superiors.
