The phrase "absolute brink" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that is at the very edge of a critical point or limit, often implying imminent danger or a decisive moment.
Example: "The negotiations reached an absolute brink, with both sides refusing to compromise any further."
Alternatives: "critical edge" or "final threshold".
"The stimulus package that passed last year helped pull our economy back from the absolute brink.
This philosophy is a poor metric of success, pushing our workforce to the absolute brink, welcoming diminishing returns that chip away at productivity and deplete our energy and focus.
Relations hit rock bottom when, pushed to the absolute brink, I threatened to kill my mother-in-law if she didn't "stay the **** away from me", I believe it was.
They say that those painted by him sensed an almost terrible power, a drawing near to the brink of absolute veracity.
Whatever the truth behind the arrest this week of 90-odd uniformed but unarmed men alleged to be right-wing terrorists at a ranch on the outskirts of Caracas, it spells more trouble for the opposition to Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez.Mr Chávez, a populist former army officer, stands on the brink of winning absolute power in his country.
But it was the failure of Lehman Brothers that tipped a bad situation into an absolute disaster, and brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse.
Both Scotland and Australia had been on the brink of deciding to withdraw, and Holmes thinks England's "absolute decision to go ahead" led to other countries following their lead.
It didn't matter that we could bring out the absolute worst in each other, or that we sometimes pushed each other to the brink of sanity.
Watching the team I have rooted for since I was a child come back from the brink of elimination to rub the sweet sting of champagne from their eyes was absolute euphoria.
Yet, pulling the protagonists back from the brink without loss of face is a non-starter as long as both sides of the divide target absolute victory at whatever cost.
