Sentence examples for barely prevent from inspiring English sources

Nuñez (a delicately outrageous Diana) is whizzing mid-pirouette when Acosta expertly catches her by the waist and spins her around at ever more accelerating speeds; the timing so tight that Nuñez can barely prevent herself laughing.

Others are small, hard, and bitter and can barely prevent starvation.

Actually, we should say that we could barely prevent ourselves from driving a bit too fast.

One caller from Pittsburgh claimed that he had barely prevented his wife from taking her own life by swallowing poison.

Pushed back, the Serbs attacked Western journalists and were barely prevented from lynching an old Albanian man in his apartment.

In August this year, another young man with links to France, Ayoub el Khazzani, was barely prevented from shooting at passengers on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris.

In its relentlessly biological mind, what we think of as civilization is portrayed as a fragile membrane that barely prevents us from acting on our most brutal instincts.

During a tour of a German zoo, an orangutan was barely prevented from escaping by the zoo's director, who, at the last moment was able to divert the animal's attention.

With an intensely naturalistic soundtrack and a stinging visual acuity (a closeup of a woman peeling a potato, for instance, suggests the peeling away of raw human skin) the movie creates an almost unbearable vision of the physicality of life and implies that what we think of as civilization is a fragile membrane barely preventing us from all-out bestiality.

Whereas Kurt Neumann's film came on the heels of the advent of the atomic bomb -- the ultimate example of man's scientific acumen producing something monstrous -- Cronenberg's film finds itself born into a world where science can barely forestall and certainly not prevent the prospect of the body essentially devouring itself.

In 1977, a feedwater valve stuck and engineers were barely able to prevent a partial meltdown after more than 20 minutes of "complete confusion".