Maddow described marathoners as "the endurers, the whip-thin, test-of-limits, addictive contenders doing something that is not much like anything else in our American culture".
A race is a risk, a testing of limits and limitations.
The curiosity, the testing of limits, the awkwardness, the courage, the insight... it is all there in strong measure.
While diplomas are sealed, passports remain open to be filled with the powerful stories from teachers along the road, tests of limits, shattered theories and self-assessment.
Correlations between the PRT in standing and laboratory tests of limits of stability is moderate-to-high (r = 0.42 to 0.77).
Experts say the case is a test of the limits of free speech.
Well, we are going to see a test of the limits of monetary policy.
"If people like Amzie Moore and Medgar Evers and Aaron Henry tested the limits of repression, people like Septima Clark and Ella Baker and Myles Horton tested another set of limits, the limits on the ability of the oppressed to participate in the reshaping of their own lives," he writes.
"If people like Amzie Moore and Medgar Evers and Aaron Henry tested the limits of repression, people like Septima Clark and Ella Baker and Myles Horton tested another set of limits, the limits on the ability of the oppressed to participate in the reshaping of their own lives," writes Payne.
At first, Yeltsin's flamboyant testing of the limits made Gorbachev look comparatively safe to the anxious old guard.
