Sentence examples for edge of disintegration from inspiring English sources

But the feeling of an extreme personality on the edge of disintegration is every bit as acute.

You sense from the dark, dreamlike opening that this is a community on the edge of disintegration.

Denise Gough, often seeming to be acting at the very edge of disintegration, gave a name-making performance as a vulnerable woman whose claims (even about her own name) can never be trusted.

In a big year for Arthur Miller, Yael Farber's revival gave this flinty, hard-edged study of the Salem witch-hunts a strange dream-like quality and, headed by Richard Armitage and Anna Madeley as the fractious Proctors, showed a community already on the edge of disintegration.

Paddy Ashdown, the former high representative and EU special representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, warned that the country was on the edge of "disintegration," blaming spiraling ethnic tensions, the lack of EU interest in the area, and the Bosnian Serb pressure toward secession following Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia in February.

The less robust among them whipped out immigration papers, some on the verge of disintegration, praying that on this day, their legal status might give them an edge.

Thirteen-centuries-old Syria is on the verge of disintegration.

Everything is pushed to the edge of mania and disintegration.

Erica Wagner, in the Times, also stressed the ever-present danger of disintegration: "The book's title is perfect; it is a work that teeters at the edge of uncertainty... Sebald's journey into himself and his past is compelling, puzzling, unique.

An uncontrolled default could unleash a host of frightening scenarios upon a country and a Balkan region on the edge of the European Union — including hyperinflation, political instability, disintegration of public services, increased migration across borders, social breakdown and even the collapse of law and order.

The forces of disintegration are winning.