Anyway, she got to a breaking point.
She attributes her ostracism to the "uncanny-valley response," wherein people respond ever more positively to robots or images that approximate human likeness, until a breaking point where the almost-but-not-quite human gives us the creeps.
Not to be outdone, Mr. Neeson does some glowering of his own and strains the tendons of his neck almost to the breaking point in a story of rage and vengeance.
Still, her playing was fiery and impassioned, most of all in Ysaye's Sonata No. 4, where she routinely pushed notes almost to their breaking point in a way that sent the pulse racing.
This version, however, little resembles that jaunty arrangement of long ago, as the featured singer slows the tempo, stretching syllables almost to the breaking point while hitting a battery of silky high notes Alpert could reach only in his dreams.
It's stretching the whole idea of an open society almost to the breaking point".
It stretches the mind almost to the breaking point to think of John McCain as an agent of substantive change.
And in this day in age, when so many U.S. real estate markets are still on life support, property owners are finding they must stretch the bounds outside that box almost to the breaking point if they have any hope at all of getting a good price, or even a fair price, for their favorite four walls.
Players are driven almost to the breaking point.
Aristotle's account was stretched almost to the breaking point but it was not transformed.
As it turned out, the turbines helped get the region through a summer that shattered records for demand and strained the power grid almost to the breaking point.
