His ever-precarious health history, full of things like double pneumonia and typhoid fever, makes the sickly Schubert seem like Jack LaLanne.
Initial work at the Wardenclyffe site produced spectacular light displays that were seen for miles around, but Tesla's ever-precarious financial situation meant the tower was never completed.
Self-dramatising, often self-pitying, they bring alive a writer equally preoccupied with his place in history and his ever-precarious finances.
But once my body approximated theirs, my enslavement to my newfound, ever-precarious thinness kept me from that seemingly-carefree lifestyle.
The situation in Afghanistan is ever more precarious and dangerous.
His status has grown ever more precarious with moderate and independent voters who may be the keys to November.
The life of a horseman, he knows, is becoming ever more precarious, as the old freedoms are curtailed.
However, Russia has been distancing itself from Mr. Assad in recent months as his hold on power has grown ever more precarious.
But terms such as "asylum-seekers" and "immigrants" elicit little sympathy in most developed nations, meaning governments simply beef up their borders, thereby sending the migrants on ever more precarious voyages.
These same op-eds also show no awareness of the long history of withholding documentation in order to keep marginalized people excluded – by making their daily lives ever more precarious, their bodies ever more vulnerable to the state's violence.
"Embrace insecurity," after all, sounds like exactly the sort of message that the chancellor of the exchequer might find cynically helpful to inculcate in a society facing ever more precarious circumstances.
