Sentence examples for edge of calamity from inspiring English sources

Bowie apologised many times for his remarks, blaming drugs for bringing him "to the edge of calamity" – but absolutist notions had long haunted his work.

After walking calmly on the edge of calamity, saving par from the woods, making birdies off the pine straw, the bunkers and the fairway, the 39-year-old Mickelson embraced his caddie, his wife and his children, waved to his fans, and nearly broke down when he thought about what it all meant.

The following year, in his Lectures on the English Poets, referring to tragic poetry especially, he would observe how "in proportion as it sharpens the edge of calamity and disappointment, it strengthens the desire of good".

Sometimes we can be on the edge of a calamity and it turns to gold".

When he argued that George W. Bush's militarized foreign policy was creating more terrorists, or insisted that the country was on the edge of an economic calamity, he was mocked by Republican opponents such as John McCain and Rudolph Giuliani.

Today more than 13 million inhabitants of Sao Paulo state find themselves on the edge of an unprecedented public calamity.

It was then, on the edge of yet another Arab calamity, that the Saudi monarch, King Faisal, broke with his American protectors and began what turned into a frontal assault on the very bases of the post-World War II international order.

Lil Wayne once thrilled with the possibility of calamity, but there was no such edge here.

They brought in the director Ronald Bronstein ("Frownland") to incarnate an impulsive, bohemian, disorderly father who barely stays a step ahead of calamity and steers his sons (Sage and Frey Ranaldo) to the edge of real danger but also exposes them to a wild and impassioned range of experience.

We're on the edge of our seats, secretly waiting for calamity.

The recurring decimal of calamity.