Sentence examples for perilous proposition from inspiring English sources
On paper "The Cleveland Show" (which makes its debut on Sept. 27) is an unusual, even perilous proposition: it is one of the rare programs on network television focusing on an African-American family, but its creators and its star are white.
And that moral is this: Glastonbury after-dark is a perilous proposition.
A lot of people don't have the stomach for full-blown S&M and it also requires not only the ability to maintain an erection (an increasingly dubious proposition in these perilous times) but also the ability to sustain a role--something which is incidentally one of the most important aspects of the actor's art.
A biography of John Wayne just issued in paperback ("John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth," by Michael Munn) is dedicated to the "victims and heroes of 9/11," as well as to the proposition that Wayne's courageous, can-do brand of Americanism fits these perilous times.
The Oregon Trail, a perilous hike across thousands of miles – and two icy mountain ranges – was often a one-way proposition, and appealed mainly to the desperate and the crazy.
In order to have fewer there by 2011, the President told the cadets — as though this proposition were as simple and powerful as the miracle of compound interest, and not as tempting but perilous as spending one's way out of debt.
These are perilous times.
The perilous speed remains.
