You realize early on that these insects are not to be trifled with when one of them does a lengthy one-armed handstand atop a precarious-looking pole.
There is only room for a very, very few millionaires in this game, and even those wealth dropouts have precarious wealth — look at Facebook stock and how poorly it has done.
The sculpture makes the viewer uncomfortable, in part because of its precarious positioning it look like it could topple over at any time but also because of its absurdity as an object.
It was like a balancing act, something she had refined over the years, and no matter how precarious it looked I knew she would not fall.
The heroine of "Maia in Yonkers" flees Tbilisi (where her husband was shot by Russian gangsters), establishes a precarious footing looking after an old lady in Yonkers, but at the long-awaited visit of her son, finds herself painfully estranged from the boy.
It makes China look precarious and heralds turbulence elsewhere, too.
By late September, however, the Union hold on the city began to look precarious.
In business terms, however, the studied casualness of WHVW can look precarious.
But it has come at a heavy price in depleted natural resources, a damaged environment and scrupulously disrespected property rights.The imbalance between investment and consumption makes China's economy look precarious.
These now take place in almost half of all sales, up from about one in ten a year ago, says Marc Goldberg of Hamptons.Yet residential prices are already high, compared with incomes and rents, and London's upwardly mobile property prices look precarious.
