Puppies should be allowed to run at will without restraint and without being pushed beyond their limits.
Elsewhere, though, the book succumbs to randomness: non sequiturs, lists of objects, zany fictional conceits (usually involving animals or food) pushed beyond their limits.
Sometimes the equipment that makes the cars leap and dance is pushed beyond its limits and a hose bursts, spraying hot black oil.
The spate of suicides has highlighted a quirk at the heart of French society: Even with robust labor protection, workers see themselves as profoundly insecure in the face of globalization, with many complaining about being pushed beyond their limits.
Last year Vedanta/KCM made up to £320m profit from the mine but engineers who have worked there say that its pollution treatment works have been pushed beyond their limits by the company to maximise output.
Although everyone is disappointed that a deal has not been reached, we feel that we are really being pushed beyond the limits of what any of us can cope with.
Nowadays the classical dancers are exploring all kinds of contemporary dance and the dancers are being pushed beyond the limits, not just of the body but of the mind.
But the anguish of the St . Johns nurses, who nearly doomed the sale by initially rejecting a new contract, is sounding a warning about strains within a profession where some feel they are being pushed beyond their limits, and beyond what is safe for their patients.
In Ulysses, James Joyce celebrated water's "universality, democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level" – but the type of urban delivery system he admired in 20th-century Dublin is pushed beyond the limits in 21st-century Mexico City.
Hearing Furrer and Sciarrino's common love for the squeaking sonorities produced by a double bass pushed beyond the limits of its upper range, I longed for the rich and simple resonance of a bow being pulled across its open strings.
In a culture of public and working life that places ever more stress on the individual to achieve and to do more with less, to work longer hours, to make a greater change to the world, people often find themselves pushed beyond the limits of what they can endure.
