Sentence examples for perilous venture from inspiring English sources

Criticizing Cage's aesthetic doctrines is by now a perilous venture because his defenders have become so skilled at turning any questioning around and using it as proof of the critic's poverty of awareness.

In transit camps in Libya before the perilous venture across the Blue Desert, they play football, fight, and pool their scanty resources so an even poorer friend can pay his way.

Childbirth, a perilous venture in these centuries, was also a cause for celebration and artistic commissions, with the most costly being childbirth trays about two feet in diameter and painted on both sides.

Bill Gross, a bond-market veteran, adds these numbers to soaring consumer debts to arrive at what he calls the "finance-based economy"—a perilous venture sustained by the Fed's super-low interest rates.More optimistic souls point to the sort of arguments that fuelled the sharp rise in share prices and talk of a new economy in the 1990s.

A perilous, successful venture by a federal officer.

Egypt was ostensibly on a parallel course of building a democratic and sustainable state; both ventures were perilous, fraught with uncertainty, and short of money.

It is a voice that plays with words, distorting and elasticising them with a kind of seraphic bleating, and ventures into perilous upper registers where it threatens to crack without ever doing so.

Of course, in the mid-90s when I started A Perfectly Good Family – a title that to this day my mother tellingly misremembers as The Perfect Family – I knew I was venturing into perilous territory.

So eager is he to show us the war's centrality as contemporaries saw it -- and to reassert the force of contingency -- that he ventures into the perilous realm of counterfactual narrative: "Without the Seven Years' War, American independence would surely have been long delayed, and achieved (if at all) without a war of national liberation.

While I didn't venture into these overgrown and perilous areas (which are only accessible via commissioned planes), I did hear about an incident in which a father ate the face of his newborn daughter in front of a crowd of onlookers because God told him to "eat the baby" before the baby ate him.

All along the promenade, children were playing ball games and licking ice lollies, though few were venturing into the wild Atlantic and its perilous, swirling currents.