Sentence examples for mentally precarious from inspiring English sources

On Sunday night, the gorgeously pregnant Natalie Portman, 29, won an Oscar for her performance as Nina, a mentally precarious ballerina in the shock fantasy "Black Swan".

With the accession (1766) of the mentally unstable Christian VII, however, Bernstorff's position became increasingly precarious; he was dismissed from office on Sept. 15, 1770, and retired to his estates in Holstein.

There are shades of Mark Lathwell about Hughes, a sublime natural talent but one who is so precarious (mentally in Lathwell's case, technically in Hughes's) that there is a better than even chance he won't make it.

With staff "fed up with the Samwers", many have already "mentally left" and "the situation is very tense" (say sources) this appears to be a precarious time for the incubator.

Massive, precarious.

Conversation is precarious.

They are also precarious.

It is precarious.

Talk about precarious.

"Mentally retarded?

It is a precarious existence.