The paintings, which have titles such as Crowning the Victors at Olympia and Commerce and the Triumph of the Thames feature a promiscuous mixture of Greek and 18th-century themes as well as many scantily clad young women whose main hope appears to be that The Progress of Knowledge of Culture is going to give them something more substantial to wear than a precariously secured bedsheet.
NASA managers unanimously picked Aug. 27 to try to launch the space shuttle Atlantis on a mission to resume construction of the International Space Station, but two precariously attached bolts securing a crucial antenna were causing some worry.
The crane atop one of Manhattan's most prestigious addresses remained dangling precariously 1,000 feet above the ground on Tuesday as officials tried to determine how to safely secure it.
Thus, Deborah wrote, "he would string all his subjects together in a row, and the other person simply needed to nod or mumble". By moving rapidly from one thought to another, Clive managed to secure a sort of continuity, to hold the thread of consciousness and attention intact albeit precariously, for the thoughts were held together, on the whole, by superficial associations.
With the disabled equipment perched precariously at the edge of the crater and its crane tipped at an angle, workers moved to secure it with steel cables.
By moving rapidly from one thought to another, Clive managed to secure a sort of continuity, to hold the thread of consciousness and attention intact — albeit precariously, for the thoughts were held together, on the whole, by superficial associations.
He is precariously close.
The lead held, precariously.
It blooms, precariously, still.
