Sentence examples for close to peril from inspiring English sources
So close to peril, Obama delivered an acceptance speech full of punch, muscle and pop — the Democratic Party showing some rare brawn on their closing day and no small amount of testosterone.
He uses astonish ingly effective selections of art, sculpture, science, poetry and music to underscore his personal view of Western man's preservation of a cul ture that so often has been close to peril.
When you adopt an older pet, you're not only bringing incredible joy into your home, but rescuing an animal that's very close to peril.
"And it depends on your finances; if you're close to financial peril, we should maybe do the rental, and start bringing in some income".
You came close to mortal peril a few times.
But in 1990 the company came close to financial peril, when then-chief executive Kirk Raab invested heavily in Activase, a clot-buster for heart attack victims, and sales were sluggish.
But now they must deal with their precarious relationship with water, here in the delta so close to the perils and produce of the sea.
We act only after we've experienced significant harm or are able to graphically imagine ourselves, or those close to us, in peril.
Instead, the floor drops away and we suddenly find ourselves in something closer to "The Perils of Pauline" when the boys encounter pirates in the Maine woods and a villain seemingly modeled on Bluto, Popeye's nemesis.
Revisiting his childhood home — rooms permeated by the odors of the beauty parlor downstairs, which infused young Guy with mysterious feminine influences — he stages a funny and unnerving domestic tableau, in which the buried themes of sex, need and emotional peril bubble close to the surface.
