Sentence examples for hovering on the periphery from inspiring English sources

​Bitto's older characters appear distant by comparison, hovering on the periphery of the children's experiences.

Hovering on the periphery is Lila's cousin, Irfan, who's been wooed away by Muslim guerrillas.

The killer himself remains almost unseen, hovering on the periphery, as elusive to the viewer as he is to the police.

But I prefer these remodeled Bruno Frisoni boots ($790 at Geraldine, 246 Mott Street) to the hideous Nazi-esque Doc Martens still hovering on the periphery of cool.

She becomes aware of something brutal hovering, on the periphery of her vision: if she is alone in the street, what should she do?

And the technical work is superb, from Ian MacNeil's scenic design to Rick Fisher's lighting and Paul Arditti's sound, which summon a sense of eternal menace hovering on the periphery.

In this disquieting first collection of short stories, set in the arid sprawl of Los Angeles, characters who hover on the periphery of fame and wealth find themselves stung by addiction, robbery, carjacking and other unexpected miseries.

The adults, in modern parent default mode, hovered on the periphery, as they do at children's  birthday parties, standing, holding their plates of cut fruit, and mimosas and ministering to their offspring.

While small and medium businesses have been drawn to the cost efficiencies of web-based solutions, the Cloud has thus far hovered on the periphery of mainstream business IT, with many dismissing it as unfeasible on a large scale, or at best, a distant solution.

She's hovered on the periphery throughout the series, moving to center stage only on occasion, but with an unsteady undercurrent and sufficient ice running through her veins, all suggesting that she's somehow involved in this madness.

Spur is a sage who hovers on the peripheries of the story, lobbing in words of wisdom and wooing women with lines like "Tell me, by what magic do you transform this humble farmyard chicken into such delicate ambrosia?" Reminiscent of Lee Marvin's devilishly good split performance as a gangster and a gunfighter in Elliot Silverstein's Cat Ballou (1965), Douglas is an utter delight.