Sentence examples for close to raping from inspiring English sources

One of the trickiest moments is the scene near the end, where Proteus comes close to raping Silvia.

He gives Howard a sex scene with one black servant, played by Isaach De Bankolé, whose conquest of Grace looks uncomfortably close to rape.

He feels remorse for sending his not necessarily crazy father back to a mental institution, for being a bad and absent father himself, and for attacking his first wife in "something close to rape".

It is therefore time to say that ballroom today (at exhibition and competitive levels) proposes behavior from both sexes that looks not much like courtship and seduction but something alarmingly close to rape and whorishness.

From the uncompromising idea that all intercourse is close to rape because it is about subjugation, to those like Camille Paglia or Katie Roiphe who took modern women to task for not taking enough responsibility for their own behaviour: if we are to own our desire and be equal players in this dangerous game - we have to careful how and when we chose to paint ourselves as victims.

Close to rape it is, but escapes rape when Gellhorn realizes Hemingway is motivated by fear.

But it's got punch and powerful moments: Isabella comes close to being raped twice, and the final stage-managed red-carpet scene suggests that this Duke has not learned how to rule, only how to manipulate.

She wins millions in a poker table, as usual, but a few hours later, however, her atypical luck is confronted by mischance for the first time: Emily becomes close to being raped inside the restroom of a nightclub.

The incident at 17 was the one I remember best because this was the closest he came to raping me.

The ingenious staging comes close to aestheticizing rape.

It is a hard fact to face, but there are close to 100,000 rapes in England and Wales alone every year.