Sentence examples for precarious construction from inspiring English sources

His "21st-century socialism" is a precarious construction.

What keeps the pieces of this precarious construction from flying apart into actual nonsense is not merely the persuasive physical evocations and the careful unfolding of the narrative but the fairy-tale logic of the story.

Only with the introduction of the hoop skirt were underpants invented, as a necessity due to the skirt's precarious construction (after, say, a slip on the ice, the stiff hoop could send a Victorian lady's skirt sailing over her head).

At the put-in point at Tuting, I ventured across one such precarious construction, my heart in my mouth as it swayed alarmingly above the Dihang racing far below.

In the fifth series, Mackenzie felt more open towards Adam, stating Adam Carter "isn't exactly James Bond he doesn't jet around the world, bedding multiple women and engaging in fisticuffs atop precarious construction rigs, but he does rush around London with a gun in his hand and occasionally ends up on the receiving end of the odd beating".

His bold and uncompromisingly painterly images have evoked stairways, ladders and precarious constructions with the most basic of perspective devices.

It's an idea that resonates through the work of the writer Paul Auster, in whose fiction both selves and stories are precarious constructions, fascinating but unstable, more illusion than reality.

This kind of hypothetical, future-facing work will certainly be encountered in many forms at Art Basel, from the digital surrealism of Ed Atkins (presented by Cabinet in Unlimited) to the precarious constructions of Sarah Sze (presented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery).

The study area includes a region in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, characterized by high population density, precarious domicile construction, and a general lack of infrastructure around it.

In its shadow lives a precarious community of construction workers and economic migrants, all desperate for a piece of the country's booming future.

On sites that are particularly difficult to access, autonomous 3D printing would ideally eliminate the need to have work crews situated in precarious positions during construction.