Part of the Olympic ideal is testing one's limits.
There is a broad consensus that museums have become a place for "testing one's limits", the opportunity for those who venture there to take risks.
Slacklining competitions in the United States pay only about $2,500 to $3,000, so the greater allure comes from freedom and improvisation and testing one's limits, said Michael Payton, 22, the world slacklining champion.
Testing one's limits was a theme echoed by several today, including John D. Finley, an accountant from Toms River, N.J. "I tried being famous -- I was an actor for 10 years and that didn't work out," said Mr. Finley, 45. "And I don't care about the money.
Though I was in my thirties, that long summer had the fervor and change in it that one associates with one's twenties -- crazy, recklessly out-of-control, where one is testing one's limits.
Leaping and turning, their bodies crumpling out of ballet positions or skidding across the floor, the performers, dressed in simple, bright-colored dancewear (Mr. Millepied's designs) might be playing a game, testing one another's limits.
As the sun swung hard around Yunnan, firing a trillion chloroplasts on green terraced hillsides, K filled his pot with something rare and potent—I'd lost track of what and wraiths of steam rose from the clay as we drained our cups and tested one another's limits.
Far from being dangerous, the ideal playground "offers visible, manageable risks, as playing is all about testing and transcending one's limits".
In addition, experimentation with alcohol represents an adolescent developmental task on the way to adulthood testing one's limits is a normal part of growing up. 10 Since drinking is often connected to social contexts, the school setting seems to be an ideal place for hazardous alcohol use prevention.
Regular communication within the team prevents these patients from pitting one member against another, or evading one doctor's limits on additional testing.
One resident, testing Katrina's limits, came home smoking crack and blew smoke in her face.
