Mrs. B. spoke of herself, at one point, as "bordering on normality," but then made clear what such "bordering" meant: "We know the rules and conventions of the 'normal,' but there is no actual transit.
We are demanding unbounded respect bordering on worship, but that's just our opening offer.
His distinctions are precise, bordering on glib, but they are not limiting.
Here was a coaching style bordering on abuse, but hardly unusual.
Mr. Garrett's sound is tart and gusty, bordering on perfervid, but with a pinpoint-accurate expenditure of energy.
He still radiates intensity bordering on mania, but without the familiar "what, me worry?" air of invincibility.
They're virtuoso turns of baroque design, bordering on bombast but commanding respect as feats of handicraft and experimentation.
Not without tension, not without occasional mortifying moments of social comedy or glimpses of domestic situations bordering on tragedy — but still it was yes.
Heinlein may have cultivated a philosophy that now seems distasteful bordering on appalling, but it is unfair to criticize him for simply having a philosophy.
Illuminating the whole was the pianist Gilbert Kalish, who touched the music with his own sense of wonder, bordering on innocence, but without a trace of self-consciousness.
That might sound audacious bordering on ludicrous, but Wonder does have some solid firepower.
