Sentence examples for perilous about from inspiring English sources

From the moment it appeared, the phrase has been used to characterize the consciousness of our era, the awareness of everything perilous about the modern world: the degradation of the environment, nuclear energy, religious fundamentalism, threats to privacy and the family, drugs, pornography, violence, terrorism.

But a year from now, after the public has been worn down by so many months more of effective White House propaganda, "America's mayor" (or any of his similarly bellicose Republican rivals) will be offering voters the clearest possible choice, however perilous, about America's future in the world.

The project is an example of the perilous assumptions about the future involved in long-term infrastructure planning.

The perilous spot, about 100 miles off the coast of Southern California, had been surfed only a handful of times in the past decade.

The one exception they point out is Fish, a part tranquil, part perilous game about the life of a creature of the deep.

Although Barack Obama has steered away from hot-blooded rhetoric about America's enemies, he knows that our political culture is quick to charge liberals with a perilous naïveté about bad guys from abroad.

"The only perilous thing about 'Morgan!' is that it may cause us all to have a bit too much sympathy for beatniks and their childishness in a vicious world," he added.

The more we find out about this perilous face-off, the closer it appears we were to a nuclear catastrophe.

What it's about: The perilous voyage of the Mayflower, the ship that transported the Pilgrims from England to Massachusetts in 1620.

"The killer in me is the killer in you," Billy Corgan sang in "Disarm," another song about perilous eroticism.

Last week in The Appraisal column, Christine Haughney wrote about perilous words and phrases that fair-housing experts advise real estate agents to avoid in advertisements.