If I felt you were getting too close to discovering my problem, I would push you away.
The more bright-eyed neuroscientists claim they are close to discovering a "buy button" in the brain.
He had come tantalizingly close to discovering the structure himself and might have done so if he and Dr. Franklin had been able to collaborate.
Indeed, we are not even close to discovering whether Twitter can be transformed into an advertising medium without destroying its value in the eyes of users.
The recent discovery that there is water (in the form of ice and vapor) on the moon could mean we are tantalizingly close to discovering extraterrestrial life.
On Tuesday, American officials said they were close to discovering the identities of the assailants from tests performed on their remains, and that they appeared to come from several different countries.
The dean of French mathematical physics, Jules-Henri Poincaré -- who discovered the mathematics of chaos in 1893 and whose 1899 classic on celestial mechanics was reprinted by NASA in order to plan Apollo's course to the moon -- came very close to discovering the special theory of relativity.
Catherine is fired by the prosecutor and signs on to aid in the judge's defense, putting her a) back in proximity to her old love, b) on a collision course with her old boss and c) dangerously close to discovering her brother's crimes.
According to curator Martin Clayton, the works are extraordinarily accurate – he was close to discovering the circulation of the blood that William Harvey elaborated a century later – and, with his multiple drawings of the same body parts from different angles, he seemed almost to be striving for a three-dimensional rendering.
Petty's real life friendship with Marcisak takes a fictional turn in the film; Petty gets close to discovering Rost's secret.
