Sentence examples for precarious sense from inspiring English sources

Soon I was back online, reading the same articles for my next fix, until I once again reached a precarious sense of certainty about who I was.

That was about it". In a world in which every road runs into the desert or the Interstate or the Rocky Mountains, people develop a pretty precarious sense of their place in the larger scheme.

Both sides of the family were Pennsylvania Dutch, an identity that meant little to him when he was young but a great deal later on, perhaps to shore up a precarious sense of identity.

A muscled young man who works out constantly and has a bulldog that looks like it would wear Ed Hardy shirts, but putting a dog in clothing would upend the man's precarious sense of masculinity so the dog remains shirtless.

The schools, which once shared some teachers and programs, have been split into two cramped public school buildings in different parts of Midtown Manhattan, where they are struggling to maintain a precarious sense of community, miles from their home base and the financial district that was a source of internships and support.

But by all accounts, the often precarious sense of safety in Haiti is taking a beating, and nowhere is this more evident than here in Cap Haitien, the country's second-largest city, where the rebel breakthrough in February brought chaos and hastened Mr. Aristide's downfall.

And Rose's years as a Malibu hermit haven't improved his always precarious fashion sense: he lumbered around the stage, a ridiculous leather pork-pie hat partially covering his equally ridiculous red-haired Rasta braids.

McFarlane's knowledge of dementia expertly informs her depiction of Ruth's precarious and unpredictable sense of self, which begins to decline rapidly with the arrival of Frida, a government-appointed nurse.

Separately, Israel warned on Monday that the Syrian government's control of its stockpiles of chemical weapons was precarious, adding a sense of urgency to fears that the weapons could fall into the hands of the Lebanese Hezbollah or Islamist extremists, and fueling speculation in Israel about military options.

It did not help that the BBC had just published the results of a study showing that Britain's traditional class divisions — upper, middle, working — had been supplanted by a subtler range of distinctions with an elite at the padded upper limit and a group dubbed the precariat — precarious in every sense — at the bottom.

Against the backdrop of a notable recent rise in divorce rates in China (Davis 2010; Quach and Anderson 2015), our participants' couple relationships do not seem precarious in the sense that they are more likely to fail than relationships among Chinese nationals.