Sentence examples for edge of breakdown from inspiring English sources

It just put me on the edge of breakdown, every single time".

On the edge of breakdown, she is plagued by anxieties that they are coming to get her.

Even if the play is overshadowed by its successor, it offers a poignant, deeply Freudian study of a mind on the edge of breakdown.

Douglas learned to paint for the role, but the real energy is in his depiction of a man constantly on the edge of breakdown.

That was not difficult partly because of the sheer brilliance of the music – always manically teetering on the edge of breakdown – but also because of the strength of the central performances.

Self, who is crisscrossing the Atlantic to make his first feature film, "Good Money" (later, "Bad Money"), becomes progressively mired in an accumulation of complex financial and sexual crises, linked to the corruptions of money, expressed through a series of hilarious set-pieces, which bring him to the edge of breakdown.

He has lost touch with his roots, taken to drink and is on the edge of a breakdown.

When they later meet at a concert at Frankie's school, both seem on the edge of a breakdown.

I guess, like some outdated Romantic, I want my writers constantly teetering on the edge of a breakdown?

Margherita Buy plays a film director whose personal crisis has brought her to the edge of mental breakdown involving vivid, hallucinatory dreams.

Neither half is satisfactory, though Swinton's impersonation of a woman on the edge of a breakdown will leave no one indifferent.