Sentence examples for bordering upon from inspiring English sources

Times are much happier now in this respect, but a certain closeness bordering upon containment culture still persists.

Dudamel, though, reverted back to Ravel -- at first with broad tempos and heavy textures bordering upon torpor until the "Chicks" and "Limoges" woke everyone up.

Little mention is made of sin and suffering in the works that have dominated 20th-century criticism, and some critics have seen his verse as bordering upon pantheism (or perhaps panentheism).

Swift spared not the vice of rich or poor; and, disdaining to amuse the imaginations of his audience with discussion of dark points of divinity, or warm them by a flow of sentimental devotion, he rushes at once to the point of moral depravity, and upbraids them with their favourite and predominant vices in a tone of stern reproof, bordering upon reproach.

It seemed as if someone had pulled a curtain to one side to reveal a formless scene that bordered upon the underworld.

Cameron's fascination with her bordered upon obsession, and Julia posed for more studies — nearly fifty, including one that the artist called "My Favorite Picture of all my works" — than anyone else whom Cameron photographed.

From that time forward interest in Europe grew rapidly; it showed itself, however, in a forcible rejection of the new teachings, characterised by an emotional colouring which sometimes bordered upon the unscientific.

Its situation must always savor of weakness, sometimes border upon anarchy.

In 1857, a runaway slave named Dolores Brown argued in court that she was born south of the border, "upon the Guadalupe River, of Mexican parents".

In some places, where the basin borders upon the basins of the Bug and the Western Dvina rivers, there is a flat swampy area.

The industry's argument, he added, that subpoena power could be applied to an Internet service provider when songs were only momentarily passing through its data pipes, "borders upon the silly".