The Dodds' story is rich with incident, populated by fascinating secondary characters, tinged with rising peril and pityingly persuasive about the futility of Dodd's mission.
Moving Beyond "Crazy Rich Asians" In The Stories We Tell About China: "In a time of rising Yellow Peril, it's never been more urgent for us to move away from stereotypes about China and its people in our literature".
Besides the animal rights campaigners, the industry is facing a classic New York peril: rising real estate values.
There are old maps and ominous title cards saying "A Storm is Rising" and "A Kingdom in Peril".
For nearly a decade, scientists have told city and state officials that New York faces certain peril: rising sea levels, more frequent flooding and extreme weather patterns.
The Chinese Communist Party generated hopeful headlines this month by acknowledging that it faces a time of reckoning: to prevent economic peril and rising unrest, the Party promised to overhaul the economy, to allow more parents to have two children instead of only one, and to end the arbitrary "reëducation through labor" system, among other changes.
By Evan Osnos November 18 ,2013 The Chinese Communist Party generated hopeful headlines this month by acknowledging that it faces a time of reckoning: to prevent economic peril and rising unrest, the Party promised to overhaul the economy, to allow more parents to have two children instead of only one, and to end the arbitrary "reëducation through labor" system, among other changes.
Here, you can find out about a tool-making cockatoo, the perils of rising sea levels, gorillas that outsmart humans and the death of Lonesome George.
But with each day the spill is not contained, and with new estimates that it may be many times larger than the government has said, the peril is rising for the administration.
In 1988, he electrified a congressional hearing, on a particular hot, sticky day in June, when he announced he was "99% certain" that global warming was to blame for the weather and that the planet was now in peril from rising carbon dioxide emissions.
In Benfey's telling, both groups were oppressed by "an overmastering sense of precariousness and impending peril," as though they already could detect the faint outline of a mushroom cloud rising above the landscapes John La Farge was sketching.
