Sentence examples for that perilous from inspiring English sources

Mexico now holds that perilous fourth spot.

And even more than when I saw her in London last year, Ms. Bennett locates, both physically and emotionally, that perilous, bipolar energy that so often animates great performers.

In a language column, I asserted with zesty finality that parlous and perilous meant the same thing, that only pompous commentators intoned "These are parlous times," and that perilous should triumph.

"Since Italy launched its Mare Nostrum operation in October 2013, there has been an unprecedented increase in illegal immigration across the Mediterranean and a four-fold increase in the deaths of those making that perilous journey.

Implicitly, Mr. Bush has agreed to engage the country in a discussion over a fundamental change in America's national security strategy: his doctrine that perilous times have forced the United States to assert a right to launch pre-emptive strikes against any state that could put weapons of mass destruction into the hands of terrorists.

And would have made that perilous period a little gentler.

But it requires getting specific about two subjects that are perilous in politics: sex and contraception.

He "delivers a satirical, even playful portrait of a world that is perilous but essentially humane".

He recognized that "a perilous polarization is taking place in our society," caused by the war and the generation gap.

It's Brothers Grimm territory, where the reader senses that something perilous or magical waits in the forest.

Writer explains that despite perilous circumstances that caused these people to immigrate--and although these circumstances clearly fell within the rubric of our govt.'s laws on political asylum--such immigrants hardly ever succeed in getting asylum.