Sentence examples for that brink from inspiring English sources

He says it was "obvious" that Brink should be invited.

In South Africa, it meant far more that Brink was a traitor to his tribe, the self-declared "white tribe" of Afrikaners.

But the light and shade that Brink has skilfully introduced into his augmented family history make for a compelling and memorable novel.

He points out that Brink, Breytenbach and other writers of the time, including Gordimer, had all "correctly seen that there was nothing to be learned from the rather insular, rather stodgy world of English letters of the early 1960s.

Some reviewers of his memoir also detected a degree of self-importance: "No one", the novelist Christopher Hope wrote, "could say that Brink takes his work, or himself, too lightly".

Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, after he accidentally sent public tweets to twenty-four-year-old Victoria Brink during the State of the Union, which led to speculation of a romantic interest until he revealed that Brink is his daughter, a fact he discovered only three years ago.

Hearing Curtis talk about that huge subject, that huge building, that brink-of-madness, reality-blurring feel, there are a few unmistakeable parallels with Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman's recent film, in which Philip Seymour Hoffman takes control of an infinitely huge Manhattan warehouse and attempts to stage a boundary-shattering show that will sum up the entirety of human experience.

Across her absurdly hilarious story arc that brinks on, and at times flies headfirst into, implausibility, Botwin's morality quickly descends lower and lower until it manifests, quite abruptly, through her most-impressionable son, Shane.

But then, like something out of a movie, someone will jab them with a magical drug that brinks them back from the brink, and they breath again, living to fight, or get high, another day.

It is to that thin brink that the GOP now pushes the credibility of the formerly trusted media to cover their swindling ways.

It isn't the liberaltarianism that Brink Lindsey had in mind, but it's the liberaltarianism we seem destined to live under for at least a little while to come.