Sentence examples for edge of dissolution from inspiring English sources

The image, the person, the life: all are here now but on the edge of dissolution.

Cracked Actor – Alan Yentob's BBC documentary of the 1974 US tour, revealing a frail, coke-addled Bowie on the edge of dissolution, as weird and remote as his role in The Man Who Fell to Earth – was very much the exception.

As with much of Pelevin's early fiction, the story ends on a note of heightened transcendence, with one of the boys lost in a kind of rapture as he peers at the blue lantern burning outside his window, his consciousness teetering on the edge of dissolution, on the very edge of silence.

It's a fitting beginning to a book that combines eclectic minutia with a laser-like narrative of a family on the edge of dissolution.

The Altenberg Lieder, envisioning a world teetering on the edge of metaphysical dissolution, displayed Gerhaher's expressive powers at their finest, with enthralling declamation, unnerving whispers and shocking falsettos.

The hotel clash is both harrowing and funny, a trip to the edge of despair and dissolution taken by people whose anger and wit never run out.

To achieve this morphological change many processes are initiated including cytoskeletal reorganisation with protein polymers of filamentous actin, microtubules, and intermediate filaments forming at the leading edge and dissolution of polymers occurring at the rear [ 2].

Three decades later, Philip Roth wrote an autobiography, "The Facts," after complications arising from a routine surgery led to "an extreme depression that carried me right to the edge of emotional and mental dissolution".

The high electrochemical activity at the edge of the ring enhances preferential dissolution locally, resulting in formation of corrosion pits.

Some of the observed modes of microstructural instability were fault and edge migration, the dissolution of lamellae at lamellar interfaces, and the formation of new γ grains within the lamellar structure.

Like a number of her contemporaries, Sarfati juxtaposes portraits, interiors, and landscapes to build both a larger picture and a mood — in this case, one of dissolution, isolation, and ennui that edges into desperation.