Sentence examples for dangerous meaning from inspiring English sources
The term "franchise quarterback" has also undergone dangerous meaning drift; if you do not believe that, read what was being written about Eli Manning nine months ago.
Neither the reader nor the protagonists are capable of such foresight, but the clear knowledge that every event, however minuscule, might develop into a sprawling web of roots and branches, lends every detail in the novel (as it does in detective fiction) a possibly dangerous meaning.
This white fear, created around a mythology of dangerous, hypersexual black men and vulnerable, precious white women in need of protection, is one that held particularly dangerous meaning for black people in the south, where the mere interaction of black men or boys with white women was sometimes the cause for terror lynchings.
Like Bakunin before them, the Herzens are dangerous romantics, meaning that the various causes they adopt, or drop, or eventually forget about — both personal and political — are dictated entirely by their reflexive emotional responses.
We call these "dangerous negotiations"—meaning not that they are necessarily aimed at solving an immediate life-and-death crisis but that the stakes involved put intense pressure on a leader.
"But they are not danger-prohibitive, meaning they're not so dangerous one shouldn't ride".
One could have just about allowed Brown the sloppy use of "lethal", meaning "dangerous" once, but twice in consecutive sentences suggests that he really does mean "deadly".
His trainers argued it was potentially dangerous to give meaning to what psychiatry regarded as auditory hallucinations.
A list of slang compiled from students at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, published in the journal American Speech in 1975, included sketch as an adjective meaning "dangerous, risky" ("I think we're in a sketch situation").
As we will see from what follows, minimal organizations, exemplified by the crew at Mann Gulch and found at a growing number of businesses, are susceptible to sudden and dangerous losses of meaning.
But the five‐judge panel ruled today that "the Govern ment has failed to show that said appellants are dangerous within the meaning of the Bail Reform Act". It also held that, without prejudging the sub stance of the appeals, they were "not frivolous.
