The tempo is in constant peril, of course.
She is credulous and vulnerable and dependent on a protective paternal figure and lives in constant peril of being exploited or corrupted by some lurking cad or villain.
The mistress of a bishop, she's in constant peril of being burned as a witch for her heathen healing methods.
It's madness because tree ferns in pots are in constant peril of drying out, which can set them back a season or kill them outright.
Throughout the museum, the designers seem engaged in curatorial white-water rafting, struggling to keep the displays afloat while in constant peril from the enormous American readiness to be mortally offended by some small misstep of word or tone.
As the ominous plotlines have emerged, the series has morphed into a suspense drama, with Martin and Jake on the run (Season 2 finds them in Los Angeles rather than New York) and in constant peril.
Sequestered on his island, Crusoe has apparently figured out a good way to keep his teeth clean, but out on the high seas, dental hygiene is in constant peril.
In recent decades, as the island became a tycoon's paradise, and as the median price of its homes rose above a million dollars, that sense of constant peril diminished.
But in fact the Bracketing Strategy has left abortion rights "in constant peril," he writes, because it "circumvented a broader public debate on the moral issues that might have produced a more stable national consensus".
The code was based on the same premise as the nation's Constitution — that human beings are flawed creatures who live in constant peril of falling into disasters caused by their own passions.
