"What have I done?" The Year of Reading Dangerously by Andy Miller Another in the "year of reading" genre, with the subtitle "How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life".
Contact the patient's physician if the blood pressure reading was dangerously low.
But Mrs. Garvin, quite proud of her children's behavior, read that as a dangerously false choice.
With his shoe phone to his ear or swallowing instructions he had yet to read, Smart was the dangerously unsuave un-Bond.
The judges' comments, and their general approach, have placed them firmly on the side of those who believe that wanting to be challenged rather than simply entertained by your reading matter veers dangerously close to cultural snobbery.
Since I sleep in the shadow of my to-read pile, it would feel dangerously irresponsible to read the same book twice.
For instance, you might view sketches by one of the first architects to make the International Space Station habitable 45 years ago; find out what astronauts there did recently when remnants of a discarded Russian satellite came dangerously near; or read about what happens when the toilet breaks.
Whereas The Prince is mostly concerned with princes particularly new princes and is short, easy to read, and, according to many, dangerously wicked, the Discourses on Livy is a "reasoning" that is long, difficult, and full of advice on how to preserve republics.
In that sense — this will sound dangerously highfalutin — but when I read it, it reminded me of films like "8½" and what I love about Fellini's films, which is the glorious ambition to get inside the human head.
