Sentence examples for precipice between from inspiring English sources

They're a little dangerous, and there's a sense of teetering on the precipice between avoiding dreary conventional good taste and tumbling into something far more outrageous".

The nuance, the individual sound, depends on how the singer, in the precipice between the thought and the release of the voice, envisions the sound going out.

CLEVELAND, Oct. 11 — After a short life of chaos and neglect, the teenager who opened fire on Wednesday against classmates and teachers in a downtown high school seemed to stand on a precipice between improving his life and throwing it all away.

Like Henry, my brother had a major psychotic break as a young man which led to years of living on the precipice between incarceration and extinction, and I also watched as my father, like Patrick, learned to accommodate and understand and finally even grow through the extraordinary, agonised delusional worlds inhabited by his son.

The man may be speaking to himself or to a ghost, but in any case, in the expressed fragments of his memory, which Mr. Pinter renders in a mix of thrillingly precise details and linguistically fuzzy ones, he is on a terrible precipice between the past and the future, looking back with grief and regret and ahead with fear and despair.

It seems closest to Poland or Slovakia - some place that has recently joined the EU and is "a world slipping and sliding on a precipice between the dark rockface of Communism and the seductive, light-filled void of the liberal market".

He added, "This form of warfare is here to stay, and it is completely unacceptable to allow the world to drift blindly toward the precipice without any agreement between states as to the circumstances in which drone strike targeted killings are lawful, and on the safeguards necessary to protect civilians".

He added, 'This form of warfare is here to stay, and it is completely unacceptable to allow the world to drift blindly toward the precipice without any agreement between states as to the circumstances in which drone strike targeted killings are lawful, and on the safeguards necessary to protect civilians.'" -- John F. Burns reporting for The New York Times.

One afternoon, we risked it: we climbed for an hour or more and arrived out of breath, emerging from a dense thicket at the very base of San Martino, where between the houses and the precipice there was a walkway, with a wall along it to prevent the locals from falling over the precipice in the dark.

Just then a lightning bolt strikes between her and the boulder, destroying the precipice and sending the Queen (along with the boulder) down the cliff to her doom, screaming while she falls to the jagged rocks below.

The recent war of words between the leaders brings us too close to that precipice.