Sentence examples for bordering on the ugly from inspiring English sources

It has been America the ordinary, bordering on the ugly, at recent Grand Slam events, with Europeans and South Africans hogging the last half-dozen.

To be honest it is bordering on the ugly - a reminder of an Archibald Leitch ground minus the Scottish architect's Art Deco flourishes.

Bordering on the obsessive perhaps.

And it borders on the ugly in its insensitivity, and dangerous given how these 'community centers' have been used to radicalize adherents to the faith in nations throughout the world, especially in those countries with their open societies that have been welcoming under the tenets of communal citizenship and religous rights.

Some bordered on the gruesome.

Some bordered on the absurd.

His performance bordered on the pitiless.

Playoff ratings bordered on the astonishing.

But then Hastings falls into the trap of essentialism, egregiously reducing Hanoi policymakers to narrow, ugly caricatures bordering on travesties.

So much so that the Queensland parliament sometimes bordered on a sideshow collection of the ugly, the misshapen and the incoherent.

The attractive singer Joss Stone takes on the ugly duckling role.